The polarisation of the debate around WikiLeaks is pretty simple, really. Of all the governments in the world, the United States government is the greatest threat to world peace and security today. This is obvious to anyone who looks at the facts with a modicum of objectivity…
Remarks at the XLII Annual Caribbean Monetary Studies Conference held in honour of Professor Thomas, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean Centre for Money and Finance, UWI, St Augustine, November 9th - 12th, 2010, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
Abstract “Looking backwards into the future” suggests that important lessons can be learnt from the imperial/colonial exchange-standard (currency board system), which existed in the pre-Independence English-speaking Caribbean as these cast doubts on three ideas which I seek to contest, namely: 1) the notion of a steadily evolving truly unified and independent global economy, as strong advocates of globalisation are wont to put it 2) the supposedly “global” nature of the on-going global crisis and 3) whether it is ultimately only the existence of nation states, which sets real limits to globalisation, as strong critics of globalisation are wont to put it.
Appreciation delivered at the 42nd Annual Monetary Studies Conference, CCMF, Trinidad and Tobago, November 9-12, 201o. The Conference was held in honour of Professor Thomas, who delivered the keynote address.
Professor Clive Thomas has been for nearly four decades the most prolific Caribbean economist of his generation. His scholarship spans all aspects of Economics - theoretical, empirical, mathematical, sociological, epistemological, historical, political and moral…
Among the most fascinating documents to come out of the WikiLeaks revelations is a cable allegedly sent by the head of the US Interests Section in Havana, Jonathan Farrar, on August 11, 2009. The document is a virtual diplomatic bombshell. It could prove a source of embarrassment to all three governments concerned–the U.S., the Cuban and the Jamaican…
“Cuba’s dissatisfaction is with the United States, which is the world’s largest drug consumer and an important centre for money laundering, stemming from drug trafficking,” Ambassador Gala told the Observer.
US diplomatic staff in Cuba are said to have looked for “human interest stories and other news that shatters the myth of Cuban medical prowess, which has become a key feature of the regime’s foreign policy and its self-congratulatory propaganda.”
After a fifty-year career as poet and playwright, Derek Walcott has a lot to say. On November 23, he sat down for a ‘reasoning’ at the University of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre, with Christian Campbell, a young Bahamian poet whose Running the Dusk recently won the best first collection prize at the UK’s Aldeburgh poetry festival. In a meandering conversation, they touched on the challenges facing a West Indian poet then and now…
