Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. September 23, 2017. Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles issues the following statement on the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria: “Hurricane Irma’s fury preceded Maria’s by a deadly Caribbean second. Together they constitute the familiar sound of death and destruction reminiscent of a colonial past that clings to the present and is determined to possess and own the Caribbean future.
What Is in Your Backpack? We Who Believe in Freedom Cannot Rest Verene A. Shepherd, Social Historian 47th Congressional Black Caucus Reparations Issue Forum Friday, September 22nd, 3:00 – 5:00 PM…
By The Conversation — Hurricane Maria, the 15th tropical depression this season, is now battering the Caribbean, just two weeks after Hurricane Irma wreaked havoc in the region. The devastation in Dominica is “mind-boggling,” wrote the country’s prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, on Facebook just after midnight on September 19. The next day, in Puerto Rico, NPR reported via member station WRTU in San Juan that “Most of the island is without power…or water.” Among the Caribbean…
By Mike Ludwig, Truthout — Last week, just days after Hurricane Irma thrashed through the Caribbean with record-high winds, the Catholic bishop of the island nation of Dominica sent a letter to the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Bishop Gabriel Malzaire pleaded with the IMF to temporarily delay debt payments from Antigua and Barbuda and other islands left in ruins by the storm. “The few dozen small…
Cancellation Impacts Thousands of African and Caribbean Origins BALTIMORE – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the country’s original civil rights organization, today filed a lawsuit…
By Londa Schiebinger, Stanford University (THE CONVERSATION) In the natural course of events, humans fall sick and die. Patients hope for miraculous remedies to restore their health. We all want…
By Sean Douglas Anthony Carmona, President of Trinidad & Tobago, yesterday publicly supported a call to have European governments, whose countries benefited from slavery in the West Indies, to pay…
By Bert Wilkinson At the just concluded meeting of Caribbean Community leaders in Grenada, the question of making European nations that had participated in the transatlantic slave trade compensate the…
South African Summit, Caribbean views of Trump and May Day Actions – May Day Edition of Vantage Point Radio Show hosted by Dr. Ron Daniels with guests Rev. Dennis Dillon (Senior Pastor,…
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