Ja offended US - so what?
THE LESS the United States officials say about Haiti the better, lest they bring further embarrassment to their administration in the eyes of thinking people. National Security Advisor Condo-leezza Rice said Jamaica's decision to host former Haitian...
Int'l terrorism and the Caribbean
MY COLLEAGUE from Trinidad and Tobago pointed out to me that the time between the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the bombings in Spain on March 11, 2004, was 911 days. This 911 interim could have been the signature of Al Qaeda or a 'forgery' by...
How relevant is CARICOM?
THE CARIBBEAN Community and Common Market (CARICOM) has its foundations in the collapse of the West Indies Federation in 1962 and the formation of CARIFTA in 1965. Both, in their respective ideologies, embodied the purpose of CARICOM as...
Undermining democracy in Haiti
THE PUBLIC has been subjected of late to a barrage of claims that Jean Bertrand-Aristide was democratically elected by the people of Haiti and that as such his term of office should not be disturbed, regardless of popular discontent. But we...
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