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Peter Binose: Ralph Gonsalves, ancestry and the establishment of slavery.
By Peter Binose In the year 1418 three Portuguese sea captains and navigators Tristão Vaz Teixeira, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and João Gonçalves Zarco [John Gonsalves Zarco] sailing under the orders of the king of Portugal King John 1 were sailing the…
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Is it cricket or is it the Caribbean? Sammy vs WICB
By Wilson Jn. Baptiste From St Lucia News Online West-Indies-cricket-1The current controversy between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies players, headed by their T-20 captain, Darren Sammy, may very well be the tip of the iceberg of…
OPINION: The case for offshore
By Richard Hay Eye-popping revelations in the Panama Papers have fanned concerns that the so-called “tax havens” lie at the centre of a giant web of criminal conduct. Some, including UK Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn, have demanded that…
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OUR CARIBBEAN: Fighting crime as a region
By Rickey Singh From Nationnews Barbados LAST WEEK the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley, had the painful task of informing that nation that crime had reached a “crisis level”. It is the kind of information, or news,…
Child abuse is an everyday occurrence
By Derrick Miller From Caribbean News Now Before April: During the month of April, several communities, schools, health departments, including domestic violence centres will wear blue to show solidarity in honour of National Child Abuse and Awareness. April brings not…
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David Jessop: The Panama Connection
From The Jamaica Gleaner A few days ago, the leader of the British Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, called on the British prime minister to consider taking direct control of Britain’s Caribbean overseas territories. His remarks – not without irony, as…
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TALKBACK: Readers not for legalising prostitution
By SHERRYLYN TOPPIN, From Nation News Barbados A suggestion by a visiting academic to decriminalise prostitution has drawn the ire of online readers. Professor Kamala Kempadoo of York University, Canada, made the recommendation while delivering this year’s Sir Arthur Lewis Distinguished Lecture…
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GET REAL: Genius strike by Sammy
By ADRIAN GREEN From Nation News Barbados West Indies T20 captain Darren Sammy did not speak very loudly with his bat in the recently concluded tournament. But he played a master shot during the interview that followed the finals. It was…
Selling our enemies the rope to hang us
By Cicero From Cicero’s Songs Panama is not the world’s largest off shore financial centre. Mossack Fonseca is not the worlds largest offshore lawyer. The scale of the leak of confidential information is huge, but in fact it represents the…
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Letter to the Financial Times From Anthony Travers Chairman, Cayman Islands Stock Exchange
Letter to the Financial Times 7th April 2016. Sir, Much as Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour party leader, may secretly admire Lord Palmerston, sending a gunboat to the Cayman Islands is constitutionally impermissible (“Cameron accused of backing down on tax havens”,…
