OUR CARIBBEAN: Time for Caricom’s say
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News Barbados EXCEPT FOR THE OCCASIONAL verbal skirmishes over claimed unfair intra-regional trade practices, or the eruption of short-lived disputes involving discriminatory practices by immigration services against CARICOM nationals, the government leaders of our regional…
In ‘Baby Sham’ Case, Reed Smith weighs risks for a refugee family
By Nell Gluckman, From The Am Law Daily The firm won temporary visas for a Syrian baby and her mother to go to Spain for surgery, but the trip from Jordan could threaten the family’s resettlement to the U.S. On…
The View from Europe: A helpful confluence of events
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now It is clear from a recent visit to Washington that there is a renewed interest in the Caribbean and that its concerns are back on the US agenda. How this has come about…
Governments failed the OAS at its 46th Assembly
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON, United States, Thursday June 16, 2016 – The 46th General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) was not a successful event. This judgement is in no way related to the government…
The Editor speaks: Money is worth far more at the beginning than at the end
It never ceases to amaze me how much more we spend at the end of the problem than at the beginning – the pruning. We have all the statistics that prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that if you…
The Editor speaks: Music
With all the hatred, violence, wickedness, shocking, discrimination, terror, grief and on and on, that surrounds us seemingly every day, I awoke this morning with this reminder from an online friend, Paul McGowan, that music soothes the soul. This is…
The Editor speaks: Alden is right about novice MLA’s who crossed sides
As I have said before in one of my Editorials the motives of the two novice MLA’s who crossed over the Legislative Assembly floor is motivated by politics not by the nonsense that flows from their mouths: Their conscious. They…
The Caribbean Immigrant contributions to the U.S. cannot be underestimated
By Felicia J. Persaud From News Americas Now News Americas, NEW YORK, NY, Fri. June 10, 2016: This June marks the 10th anniversary of National Caribbean-American Heritage Month in the United States. Ten years ago – in 2006 – the bill…
The View from Europe: A crowded space
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now When it comes to regional and hemispheric institutions, the Caribbean and Latin America have become a crowded space. Over the last few years an extraordinary number of bodies have appeared; expanding their agendas…
Let the voices of the Haitian people be heard
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Friday June 10, 2016 – “International interests in Haiti, in addition to checking off an ‘elections done’ box, are largely defined by controlling emigration, maintaining stability, and managing poverty. The latter is…