Under this broad heading, the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) will take as the organizing theme of its upcoming Annual Meeting to be held at UWI Trinidad July 19-21 2012, the impact of the global capitalist crisis on old and new thinking in the creole discourses of the region.
This year - 2012 - is the 75th anniversary of the 1937 ‘Peoples Rebellion’ that played such an important role in smashing the old racist colonial system, and ushering in trends that led to the Barbadian society of today…
Unknown to us Rex Nettleford lay dying that sad Washington morning at the same time that cool African afternoon as Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent addressed the summit of The African Union on behalf of the Caribbean in Addis Ababa - surrounded and secured by the mountains fastness of Ethiopia..
George Lamming, recipient of the 2011 ALBA prize of for a lifetime’s work, has said that the award is not only a recognition of his personal work, but also that of generations of intellectuals who have promoted the unity of the Latin American and Caribbean family…
The Lloyd Best Institute has announced the ‘Common Sense Convois’ to be held in Trinidad and Tobago March 18-25 2012, ‘a civic intervention designed to influence the shape of the next 50 years of the Caribbean and to network the region in a common conversation about the Caribbean and its future’.
A new documentary on the life of internationally renowned fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica Michael Manley is to to be released online on January 10, 2012; with the official website being launched on Friday December 30, 2011 …
