Category: Headlines
Evangelicalism and Society: A Reappraisal
The few articles that have mentioned ‘evangelicals’ or the like have not always been fair, due no doubt to their brevity, or misunderstanding or some Continue reading
Palm Wine Drinkards
About three weeks after my arrival in Ghana that a friend, Yao, handed me the calabash of palm wine with the directive, “Try this; it’s Continue reading
Haiti From the Front Lines
“If ever there was genocide – this is it!” declares Flavia Cherry, a St Lucian activist in Haiti representing Caribbean Feminist Network for Research and Continue reading
Fund Spins Positive Face on Ja Deal
The International Monetary Fund has put out a video that sells its new $1.25 billion agreement with Jamaica in a positive light. Past agreements in the 1970s and 80s resulted in severe hardships on wage earners, as public sector jobs were cut, social services reduced or eliminated and public assets sold.
IMF Approves $1.25 billion Stand-by Loan to Jamaica
The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$1.25 billion loan to support Jamaica’s economic reforms and help the country cope with the consequences of the Continue reading
Rex Nettleford – Country Boy to Urbane Icon
His is another of the stories of country come to town; the boy who left his dirt poor rural community for the brighter lights of Continue reading
To Rachel Maddow: On the State of the Union
The USA’s bubble has burst (or is at best losing air fast). To further compound this, the USA continues to prosecute wars it can ill afford. Main Street is convinced that President Obama has access to some economic and other leavers which, in less than a year, should have been effectively manipulated to reinstate the…
Caribbean, Central America Recovery Lags Behind Asia’s – IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has painted a more optimistic view of the global economy in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) and its Global Continue reading
The Death Squad
“If we know, then we must fight for your life as though it were our own. For if they take you in the morning, they Continue reading
Jamaican PM Golding Brief’s Parliament on Haiti
As the world turns from grief to bickering over the response to the devastation of Haiti by the magnitude 7.3 earthquake January 12, Jamaica’s prime minister, Bruce Golding on Tuesday briefed his parliamentary colleagues on the island’s and the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) roles in alleviating the suffering people of their neighbour. Following is the full…