CARICOM Special Representative on Haiti and former Prime Minister of Jamaica P.J. Patterson, in addressing a business seminar of investors from Japan and the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) on Tuesday, November 22, in Pt Spain Trinidad, invited all potential investors to visit Haiti and see for themselves the opportunities which were available. Mr Patterson said that “Investment opportunities in Haiti are limited more by the imagination than by objective attributes or need”…
In the identity of the Caribbean and their Diasporas is a, deep, transcendent and vital cultural footprint of the peoples of the African continent. … considering the importance of achieving greater visibility of African, Caribbean and Brazilian cinema in the diasporas in our respective regions and other areas of the world, the first Encounter of Filmmakers from Africa, the Caribbean and their Diasporas was convened in Havana in September 2011….
Trinidad has become the murder capital of the Caribbean. While half a million tourists soak up the carnival atmosphere every year, the government has introduced a state of emergency to try to stop the gang violence that results in a murder on average every 17 hours. ..
Let me indicate at the outset what I shall not be talking about this morning…I shall not be talking about Haiti being the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. I shall not be talking about what we have come to call “Haiti’s glorious past”. I have the greatest admiration for the exploits and achievements of Boukman and Toussaint and Dessalines and Christophe and others who fought successfully for independence, but we should in my view be focusing less on the past and much more on Haiti’s somewhat less than glorious present, and on the possibilities for its future…
Comment: A Timely, Critical look at Haiti, Rickey Singh
It has been suggested that as much as 70 percent of Jamaica’s public debt may be illegitimate. The following is a list of twenty-one questionable projects and dealings which need investigation. It is by no means exhaustive, but there is a pattern which suggests recklessness and lack of accountability for the spending of public funds…
No sane person, especially someone who has had access to the elementary knowledge acquired in primary school, would agree that our species, especially those who are children, teenagers or youth, should be deprived of the right to live, today, tomorrow and forever. Never have human beings, throughout their eventful history, as persons endowed with intelligence, ever heard of an experience like that…
It is amazing how quickly the post budget excitement has evaporated. The Finance Minister’s presentation on October 10th 2011, was supposed to be a good news Budget…. But why hasn’t there been a sustained sense of hope over the country?…
of Iraq.“I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my mother’s side-Ashkenazi Jews who fled their homeland of Austria during Hitler’s Anschluss. It is for them that we say ‘Never again.’ I speak to you today on behalf of relatives on my father’s side, who are not living, but dying, under the occupation of this administration’s deadly foray in Iraq. From the lack of security to the lack of basic supplies to the lack of electricity to the lack of potable water to the lack of jobs to the lack of recon-struction to the lack of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they are much worse off now than before we invaded. ‘Never again’ should apply to them, too…”
CONTENTS● The 50th Anniversary of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and Praxis, Kurt B. Young/Part 1: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives: ● Frantz Fanon: Existentialist, Dialectician, and Revolutionary, LaRose T. Parris/ Revisiting Fanon, From Theory to Practice: Democracy and Development in Africa, Guy Martin/● Hegel and Fanon on the Question of Mutual Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, Charles Villet/Part II Fanon as Praxis ● Fanon Now: Singularity and Solidarity, Anthony C. Alessandrini/● Reading Violence and Postcolonial Decolonization Through Fanon: The Case of Jamaica, Maziki Thame/● Freedom and Development in Historical Context: A Comparison of Gandhi and Fanon’s Approaches to Liberation, Neil Howard/Part III: Literary Reflections on Fanon● Remembering the Wretched: Narratives of Return as a Practice of Freedom,Andrea Queeley/● Fanon as Reader of African American Folklore, Paulette Richards/● Meditations on Fanon: A Review Essay on John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon: A Novel, Ricky Hill/Part IV Fanon and African Unity, ● Untrapping the Soul of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and the Future of Pan-Africanism
Kurt B. Young
