How Venezuela has held back COVID-19 in spite of the U.S. sanctions stranglehold on its economy
By Vijay Prashad / Globetrotter Not for one minute during this pandemic has the United States stopped trying to overthrow the government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela. A seam of cruelty runs through U.S. policy, which by its sanctions regime…
Sir Ronald Sanders: OAS General Assembly failed the people of the Americas
By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is the Ambassador of Antigua and Barbuda to the U.S. and the Organization of American States. He is also a senior fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and at Massey…
Tourism: Agricultural Linkages – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN
By Basil Springer TOURISM: AGRICULTURAL LINKAGES – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN (OCTOBER 19, 2020) “Good planning and hard work lead to prosperity, but hasty shortcuts lead to poverty.” – Proverbs 21:5 The Caribbean is a leading, exquisite, warm weather, diverse multicultural,…
Month to celebrate the older person: BABY SHOWER/THE RECEPTIONIST
By Joan E. Wilson Two small poems today that I hope will put a little smile on your face. I really did loathe my job I took as a receptionist after I had retired. Baby Shower By Joan (Watler) Wilson…
Blind squirrels
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio There’s an old saying that even a blind squirrel on occasion finds a nut. A humorous aphorism about stumbling into success. The more we get involved in the recording industry the more convinced I…
Month to celebrate the older person: “Cockroaches”
COCKROACHES By Joan (Watler) Wilson I saw a cockroach crossing the road As fast as his scrawny legs could go Without fear of being squashed to death He didn’t even attempt to go slow * And it wasn’t an ordinary…
OPINION: TT Prime Minister Keith Rowley has gone too far with his scapegoating
By Dr. Kirk Meighoo Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Keith Rowley, has gone too far with his political diatribe. One would never know that he was just re-elected as Prime Minister over two months ago (although with a…
Take our breath away
By Paul McGowan From PS Audio It doesn’t happen often but when it does it makes everything worthwhile. Losing your breath. Sometimes my connection to the music is so intimate, personal, emotional, that I stop breathing for fear I might…
OPINION: Conversations with a Tyrant
By Nathan ‘Jolly’ Green. October 15, 2020 ‘You don’t belong here comrade,’ you belong in Cuba, even Venezuela, not in Saint Vincent. You have devoted so much time and energy and given SVGs political support to others at the UN…
Tourism: Economic Gearing System – BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN (Oct 12, 2020)
By Basil Springer “One who oppresses the poor to increase his wealth and one who gives gifts to the rich, both come to poverty.” – Proverbs 22:16 Tourism economic recovery, as we transition the COVID-19 experience, must be tackled by the…