The Caribbean is stressed out
From Smithsonian Forty percent of the world’s 2.5 billion people live in coastal cities and towns. A team including Smithsonian marine biologists just released 25 years of data about the health of Caribbean coasts from the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity…
Windies need to perform like World champions — Brathwaite
From Jamaica Observer NELSON, New Zealand (CMC) — Captain Carlos Brathwaite believes West Indies need to bring their ‘A’ game to the three-match Twenty20 series against New Zealand starting here Friday. The all-rounder reminded that the Caribbean side were World…
It’s Sir Charles now
BY GEORGE ALLEYNE From Caribbean Life For years they partnered to create a legendary and formidable duo driving terror and trepidation into batsmen across the world, now his nation has seen it fit to knight Charlie Griffith placing him on…
Asitha Fernando shines with his shoes in Caribbean Islands
By Bipin Dani From Pakistan Observer Mumbai Sri Lanka’s young fast bowler Asitha Fernando, now on a Windies tour has shown a fine gesture of gifting one of his shoe pair to the poor West Indies player. This was revealed…
Memories of Sabina Park – Kingston, Jamaica
By Prof Ravi Chaturvedi From South Florida South Florida Caribbean News TORONTO, Canada – Sabina Park is a scenic cricket ground and the home of the Kingston Cricket Club since 1895. The spectacular Blue Mountains, (world famous for Blue Mountain…
Red ball or pink, West Indies plumb to new depths
By Tushar Bhaduri From The Indian Express West Indies have been lurching from one disaster to the next for a long time. They drew with England in their last series, in the Caribbean in April-May 2015, but it has been…
Ontario university wants more Caribbean students
From News 784 The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) says it is so impressed with its Caribbean students that it plans to increase the number of students it recruits from the tropical islands. Already it has an international…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Inglorious Empire – Parallels of Indian and West Indian exploitation
By Sir Ronald Sanders From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday May 12, 2017 – The yearnings for power and wealth of the stone-cold dead British Empire echoed amongst the older generation throughout the shires of Britain during the BREXIT campaign. Those…
Jamaican cricketer supports blind Jamaicans
By Azad Ali From Caribbean Life West Indies middle-order batsman Marlon Samuels has donated Jam$1.5 million (US$11,700) to the Jamaica Society for the Blind. The announcement was made at a press conference recently in Kingston where it was also revealed…
Barbados monitoring increased Kick ’em Jenny activity
By Julia Rawlins-Bentham BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) — Disaster emergency officials in Barbados are currently monitoring increased activity, recorded since Saturday, at the Kick ‘em Jenny underwater volcano near Grenada. Director of the Department of Emergency Management (DEM), Kerry Hinds, gave…