Tourism Matters: Landmark UK court ruling
By Adrian Loveridge From Caribbean News Now For as long as I can remember it has been one of the most contentious laws in the United Kingdom for many years. Until a landmark court ruling last week, local education authorities…
It’s time to stop ‘dissing’ our heroes, and get rid of mediocrity
BY HG HELPS Editor-at-Large [email protected] From Jamaica Observer As ridiculous as it sounded, news came last week by way of a badly written news release issued by the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) —something that has become common in the…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Politics of ‘ethic arithmetic’
By Rickey Singh From Barbados Nation News PRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart may perhaps take pride in keeping close to his chest any creative political initiative he plans to unfold for the second half century of Barbados as an independent nation,…
Beyond the boundary – what makes the Caribbean such a fascinating sporting region
By David Owen From Inside The Games As a cricket fan whose love of the game was nurtured in the 1970s and 1980s, I know a thing or two about Caribbean sporting dominance. The West Indies teams that ruled the…
Haiti’s leaders wallowing in moral morass
By Henry Beaucejour Every day international observers are calling for elections in Haiti. The US is regularly threatening Haiti that, if it does not hold elections, then there will be no more aid. The same applies to many other international…
The View from Europe: Renewing the US relationship
By David Jessop A few days ago the US House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously agreed a draft bi-partisan bill that seeks to have the administration give greater priority to the US-Caribbean relationship. The bill has no funding attached to it….
OUR CARIBBEAN: Divisive politics – questions for the PM
By Rickey Singh, From Nation News Barbados MORE THAN half a century after the English-speaking Caribbean started the process of dismantling age-old colonial relations with Britain, our politicians and parliamentary parties across this region continue to betray a slavish attachment for…
The View from Europe: Another blow for Venezuela
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now Last week in Doha, many of the world’s major producers of crude oil tried, but failed to agree to freeze production, in order to stabilise and eventually increase prices. It was an outcome…
The backlash to U.S.-Cuba normalization and the misuse of Human Rights
By Peter Bolton, Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs In the bitter campaign to reverse the normalization of U.S.-Cuba relations that has been driving forward since December 2014, human rights have again entered center stage. Critics of President…
Breaking free from fossil fuel dependency
By Amrita Dass We all know that God is a Trini, has been and always will be. It’s time for us, however, to stop relying on this concept and, as a nation, start taking matters of importance into our own…