Calls grow in Caribbean nation for gay U.S. Ambassador’s removal
By Patrick Goodenough From cns news (CNSNews.com) – A little over two years after Obama campaign bundler and LGBT advocate James “Wally” Brewster arrived in the Dominican Republic, accompanied by his spouse, Bob Satawake, to assume his duties as U.S. ambassador,…
OUR CARIBBEAN: Not the time for surprises
By Ricky Singh From Barbados Nationnews So Prime Minister Freundel Stuart has found it necessary to quickly suspend the proposed “biometric exit” system that his administration had surprisingly announced for implementation from April l. Incidentally, this development was not intended to…
Cubans in Havana hopeful about Obama’s visit
News reports from Havana By Calvin Hughes – Anchor , Hatzel Vela – Reporter , Andrea Torres From Local 10 ABC Miami HAVANA – Lazaro Vives lives in Havana, where he says he and his family struggle with poverty. He…
US Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans close ranks on Scalia seat
By Mike Sacks, From The National Law Journal GOP: “Consensus view” was to take no action at all on Obama’s upcoming pick. The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Republican members have closed ranks against holding hearings or a vote on any nominee…
“Unlikeable is the stunning, powerful exposé of Hillary Clinton and her floundering race for the White House.”
From Newsmax Hillary’s house of cards is crashing around her. First she screamed at Obama in the Oval Office, “Call off your f—ing dogs!” Now Ed Klein is blowing the whistle on other stunning details of her shady political dealings…
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The View from Europe: Climate change, the Pope and the Caribbean
By David Jessop From Caribbean News Now In a little over a month’s time, negotiators from around the world will gather in Paris to try to reach a final and globally binding agreement on a new treaty on climate change….
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OUR CARIBBEAN: Pope, Cuba, US and Caricom
By Rickey Singh, From Barbados Nation News When the first Latin American pope holds his first meeting today at the White House with the first African-American president of sole superpower United States, the quartet of visionary leaders of the Caribbean…
Texas schoolboy arrested over clock to visit Obama as authorities defend action
By Jessica Glenza and Nicky Woolf in New York From The Guardian UK Ahmed Mohamed, 14, who has been invited to the White House for science fair, says he is thinking of changing schools after incident A 14-year-old Texas boy…
This is climate change: Alaskan villagers struggle as island is chewed up by the sea Kivalina
By Maria L. La Ganga From los Angeles Times This is what climate change looks like, up close and personal. In this town of 403 residents 83 miles above the Arctic Circle, beaches are disappearing, ice is melting, temperatures are…
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Puerto Rico: The financial implications of dependency
By Emma Scully Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs From Caribbean News Now On Monday, August 3, Puerto Rico’s Public Finance Corporation defaulted on a $58 million USD bond payment, the island’s first debt nonpayment in its 117…
