Frank Moya Pons, the most widely read historian of the Dominican Republic, set out to write a book that reveals the structural similarities of Caribbean economies of diverse colonial affiliation and the continuities of their experience through historical time. For my review of this excellent book click here
Underachieving T&T
Comments OffI comment on a new book by Dr Terrence Farrell on the economic development experience of Trinidad and Tobago since Independence. Click here
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Remember that great story you learnt at Sunday School, about the little guy with the slingshot who took down the big bully with a single stone to a part of his anatomy where it really hurts? Well, its happening right here in the Caribbean.
In the 21st century Caribbean version of the timeless Biblical story, the little guy is Antigua and Barbuda; the big bully is the United States; the slingshot is the World Trade Organisation and the stone is international trade law…
Sitting in my hotel room in Geneva Thursday night, I tried to access my personal website for a document I needed. Imagine my amazement when the following message popped up on my computer screen:
“ The web access is restricted. Please contact with administrator.(Political/Activist Groups)”
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The National Gallery of Jamaica is pleased to announce that Jasmine Thomas-Girvan, jeweller and sculptor, has been awarded the 2012 Aaron Matalon Award…
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About 15 organizations representing a broad cross-section of Jamaican society, including NGOs, the government and the private sector participate din a forum marking the first anniversary of the 51% Coalition: Women in Partnership for Development and Empowerment through Equity. This coalition’s primary thrust is to increase women’s participation in decision-making at the highest levels …
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A release from the Highway Re-Route Movement (HRM) in Trinidad and Tobago late on December 5, 2012 indicates that agreement has been reached to conduct a full independent review of the proposed Debe to Mon Desir Highway with terms of reference that address their main demands; pending which no work will begin on the contentious highway. Accordingly, Dr Wayne Kublalsingh ended his hunger strike the same evening. On the face it this constitutes a significant victory, not only for him and the HRM, but more broadly for civil society in Trinidad and Tobago; with wider regional implications…
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A hunger strike in a hungry nation, Gabrielle Hosein
Comments OffToday marks Day 19 since Trinidadian Wayne Kublalsingh, a 53 year old environmental activist and member of the Highway Re-route Movement in Trinidad and Tobago, went on hunger strike to demand an independent technical review of a portion of a planned highway that will connect San Fernando and Point Fortin in the southwestern part of the island…
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Click here to sign the Petition of support for Dr Kublalsingh’s campaign
Watch Wayne Kublalsingh explain on YouTube
More Questions Than Answers Trevor Sudama
A series of searching articles by a former minister of government poses disturbing questions about the contentious section of the highway.Click here to sign the Petition of support for Dr Kublalsingh’s campaign
When the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia overthrew the public faces of the imperial-backed regimes in the region, it inspired supporters of popular democracy worldwide. However, as the Arab revolt spread from North Africa to the Gulf and deepened its demands, the Empire struck back…
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Israel holds ‘world records’ in the number of towns and villages ethnically cleansed (over 500 and counting); number of refugees deported (4 million and counting); number of homes demolished (60 thousand and continuing); and has imprisoned more civilians per capita than any other country (250,000 and growing). Israel is the country with the highest number of protective US Security Council vetoes (over 100) preventing the world body from condemning Israeli war crimes…How do we explain the US governments’ sustained complicity with Israeli war crimes in the face of worldwide reprobation?
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The New Obama Doctrine: From Gaza to Goma Vijay Prashad
Israeli minister vows Palestinian ‘Holocaust‘ Daily Telegraph
African Americans for Justice in the Middle east and North Africa on Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people
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Sandy, A Poem by Keith Ellis
Comments OffI’m Sandy, too morally blank to be ashamed.
Born in Central American jungle heat,
sucking moisture from trees long nurtured
by the bloodied victims of protected tyrants…
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The Obama Ground Operation 2012, Horace Campbell
Comments OffHow a fusion of information technology and grassroots organising won the fierce battle for White House
Obama won re-election thanks to the amazing organisational capability of his campaign team and the massive outpouring of a new political coalition in America inspired by the new energy of the Occupy Wall Street Movement of the past two years…
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Sandy’s significance for Jamaica Jamaica Environment Trust
Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math Bill McKibben
Sandy’s warning for us all Trinidad Express Editorial
Is Sandy a taste of things to come? CNN report on climate change and Sandy
We are all from New Orleans now Mike Tidwell The Nation
Climate Talks End After Slow Progress South Centre 28 May 2012
Are Caribbean Countries Facing Existential Threats? Norman Girvan
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
Caribbean should brace for economic slowdown after Hurricane Sandy Trinidad Guardian
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American ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three officials were killed when a mob attacked the US consulate in Benghazi on 12 September. The protest arguably emerged out of a long-standing sense of humiliation and anger at the West…
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Obama’s Fatal Dilemma, Mervyn Claxton
Comments OffIn her November 2008 article in the Guardian (UK), “The New Cicero”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/26/barack-obama-usa1 Charlotte Higgins, a journalist with a background in classical studies, drew attention to Obama’s great oratorical skill, comparing it with that of the famous Roman writer and Senator, Cicero…
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You’ve heard all about the successes, so allow me to give a broad overview of a few other parameters, which might well be considered the bases of development, for without them, the country might as well be lost. Trinidad and Tobago is both a multiethnic and multi-religious society…

