The Editor Speaks: Olympics, Dancing, Jamaica, Feeling Alright
Was it divine guidance or just coincidence when Jamaica’s 54th Anniversary of Independence was almost the same day as the opening of the XXXI Olympic Games? Jamaica was one day later. It is Jamaica’s 14th appearance at the Summer Olympics…
What’s Emancipation Day to the Caribbean working-class?
By Ajamu Nangwaya/teleSUR From Carib Flame While it is great to commemorate Emancipation Day, this day must also be used to reflect, critique, assess, deliberate and plan for the next year of struggle. On 1 August 1838, enslaved Africans in the…
Peter Binose: Is it time to list SVG’s ULP leaders and the ruling family dynasty members in the RSF Predators Gallery?
By Peter Binose https://rsf.org/en/portraits/predator According to Reporters Without Borders, the RSF. The Internet has become both a popular place for exercising the right to free speech and an essential vehicle for circulating news and information. As some governments try to…
The Editor speaks: At last! Local church unity
Well almost. There are some who have not joined the Cayman Ministers Association’s campaign to promote the accepted Christian/Biblical stance against alternative lifestyles with the emphasis on same-sex unions. The Association’s leaders have spearheaded an education programme “to raise awareness…
Democrat Convention: Hillary’s acceptance speech was true to her—and that’s the bad news
By JEFF GREENFIELD From POLITICO Take me or leave me, the Democratic nominee seemed to say. I’m not going to inspire you, but I’m better than Trump. As Donald Rumsfeld might have put it, “You go with the nominee you…
Litigation funders hit with sanctions in $180 million case v. Cigna
By Alison Frankel From Reuters (Reuters) – Litigation funding is an opaque industry. Sure, extremely large funds like Burford Capital, Bentham IMF and Gerchen Keller put out occasional press releases to announce new capital or quarterly results. Once in a…
Tourism Matters: Returning to airlift
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean news Now I make no apologies in returning to airlift this week because, it is one of the most critical factors in our overall tourism success or failure. Take the United States as a classic…
Haiti: Time is running out
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean News Now Luis Almagro, the secretary-general of the Organisation of American states (OAS), has told political stakeholders in Haiti, including the interim government and parliamentarians, that it is imperative that they fully assume their…
ON THE RIGHT: Caribbean tourism will feel Brexit
By David Jessop From Barbados Nation News IT SEEMS TO ME, when I was looking at some of the issues for tourism, that the tourism industry doesn’t actually have the same luxury to wait and take some of this analysis…
Peter Binose: The Unity Labour Party, the German Nazi Party, the Cubans, Venezuelans and the Cyber Crime Bill
By Peter Binose The Cyber Crime Act is designed to stop citizens from writing and also to stop them reading the truth about their leaders. The German Nazi Party put a similar Act in place but of course at that…