Featured, Special
Ringside View Of Revolution
The Montreal Congress of Black Writers was among the first, if not the first, international Black Power gathering, attracting some of the most notable Black Power and related personalities from North America, the Caribbean, and the Caribbean diaspora in Britain.
Arts, Featured
Walcott as Master Painter
Derek Walcott’s exhibition of eighteen paintings at the Campus Principals’ office, UWI , could have been a formidable show if his other numerous pieces were included to further reveal evidence of his selective approach as an artist with an architectural flair for design.
Featured, Special
ENCOUNTER WITH PORT-AU-PRINCE
We arrived in Port-au-Prince on Saturday afternoon, after a long but uneventful drive from Santo Domingo.
Featured, Politics
THE POLITICAL EQUATION CHANGES
Depending on how he views his world, Winston Dookeran might consider himself the biggest winner or loser in the UNC elections of January 24.
Featured, Sports
GOOD TIME TO SET THE FIELD
Justifiably buoyed by the performance of his team in last year's three-Test series against Australia,...
Politics
HOW THINGS FALL APART
Posted on 31 January 2010
This series looks at how Sierra Leone, once known as the ‘Athens of West Africa’ and blessed with mineral resources, fell into a brutal civil war a mere 30 years after independence in 1961. Continue Reading
Sports
TIME TO TEST REFORMS
Posted on 31 January 2010
I doubt that there are many authentic students of the game of cricket who will take issue with the assertion that that the “Test” product needs improving. Continue Reading
Sports
MARATHON MANIAC
Posted on 31 January 2010
Participating in the 26th edition of the Trinidad and Tobago International Marathon was an ordinary man with extraordinary drive. Continue Reading
Special
OPPORTUNITY AMID THE RUBBLE
Posted on 31 January 2010
Sadly but predictably, Caricom’s response to the Haitian earthquake disaster was comprehensively bungled. Continue Reading
Special
HALF-TRUTHS, HISTORY AND HAITI
Posted on 31 January 2010
The American evangelist Pat Robertson drew sharp criticism, both within the United States and around the world, when he claimed that Haiti's problems were caused by a pact made with the Devil 200 years ago. Continue Reading
Commentary
THE WARNER SUCCESSION
Posted on 31 January 2010
When, in late November, Jack Warner announced his decision to run against Basdeo Panday,... Continue Reading
Special
Turning a page in the history of the Americas
Posted on 31 January 2010
The cataclysm that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 has devastated the poorest country in the Americas, destroyed its capital... Continue Reading
Special
The Afro-American Condition
Posted on 31 January 2010
ONE imagines that the poet was speaking for all men when he wrote that a thing of beauty is a joy forever. Continue Reading
Books
THE OTHER WALCOTT
Posted on 31 January 2010
Last month, the University of the West Indies concluded its celebrations of Caribbean Nobel Laureates with a celebratory four-day academic conference at the St Augustine campus in honour of Derek Walcott,... Continue Reading
Books
The Poem That Will Not Go Away
Posted on 31 January 2010
I have no science background but I find that there are scientists who manage to convey to the ignorant but educated reader a reasonable sense of the remarkable developments in scientific research,... Continue Reading
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