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The Kalinago, Dominica’s indigenous people. (Photo: Dominica News Online) BELIZE CITY, Belize, Wednesday May 11, 2016 – The Caribbean’s indigenous people have called to be given a seat at the political table…

By Libby Coleman The South was smoldering. A victory for the Union forces was just a few months away. Behind the Union, however, was something it wasn’t quite ready to deal…

    Margareta Matache and Jacqueline Bhabha April 22, 2016 Foreign Policy in Focus   The Romanian church, the aristocracy, and the state institutions inherited huge sums of wealth from…

By Dariel Garner  Like Bill Gates, George Soros, Warren Buffett and H. Ross Perot, but not as lofty, I was once called a “self-made man.” I was an entrepreneur who…

By SIMON ROMERO A woman in a traditional hoop skirt walked past graves adorned with Confederate battle flags in Santa Bárbara d’Oeste, Brazil. An annual celebration of the area’s Confederate many…

  President Barack Obama penned a Washington Post op-ed yesterday outlining a flimsy case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal. The TPP is currently on life support due to a…

  By the Caribbean Journal staff United States Vice President Joe Biden chaired a major summit in Washington DC this week covering Caribbean energy. The US-Caribbean and Central America Energy…

By Ben Morken The rally took place at a capacity crowd of more than 56,000 people at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, a township with deep revolutionary roots and immense historic…

  By JACQUELINE WOODSON     When James Baldwin died in December of 1987, I was 24 years old, living in a neighborhood jokingly referred to as Dyke Slope because…

Puerto Rico Legislature in San Juan. Photo: Wikimedia/CC By Caribbean News Now contributor WASHINGTON, USA — Puerto Rico is facing a major debt crisis, and the US territory announced on Sunday that…