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Our CaribbeanLessons from India's partition and Charlottesville's strife
Sir Ron SandersAug. 22, 2017On August 14 and 15, Pakistan and India, respectively, celebrated the 70th anniversary of their Independence from Britain, a country whose policies, as an occupier, fomented - and then bequeathed ...
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The View from EuropeTrump's remarks give Venezuela breathing space
David JessopAug. 22, 2017Speaking on August 11, at a press conference at one of his golf courses, the US President, Donald Trump, scored the equivalent of a foreign policy own goal.
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SpotlightLessons from Nevis
Ian JacksonAug. 12, 2017Without getting into too many specifics which could result in putting organizers and even countries in bad light, I have ventured to write this article more as a 'heads up' ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterThe Future of Agriculture
Parry BellotJuly 30, 2017Readers of this weekly column will understand why for this week I have delayed the promised Part II of my "Crime of Intolerance" article, and chosen to write instead on ...
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SpotlightOnce on this island
Ian JacksonJuly 30, 2017Never before had expectations preceded a theatrical production like this one first staged two decades ago; it did not disappoint. The second staging of Lynn Ahren and Stephen Flaherty musical ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterFun & Games with the Heads – not any way ...
Parry BellotJuly 17, 2017It was more conflict and confusion when the CARICOM Heads met in Grenada last week. Just two weeks before there was the the very public collapse of Caribbean unity over ...
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The View from EuropeThe unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean
David JessopJuly 17, 2017Last month, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) produced a worrying 'situational update' on the implications of the accelerating numbers of Venezuelans arriving in Trinidad, Brazil and Colombia.
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Our Caribbean
The relevance and state of US-Caribbean relations
Sir Ron SandersJuly 14, 2017The Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC has produced a publication entitled, "The Relevance of US-Caribbean Relations – Three Views". The title is misleading.
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The View from Europe
Who will reform CARICOM?
David JessopJuly 14, 2017There is a pervasive view within and beyond the Caribbean that the regional integration process is foundering, and that its progress is being held back by an absence of political ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterThe value of our right focus on infrastructure
Parry BellotJuly 9, 2017In my very first REBUILDING DOMINICA BETTER article in this series of weekly columns (after T.S. ERIKA struck in August 2015) I posited that roads, housing, facilities in our rural ...
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SpotlightComfort Zone engages youth in music
Ian JacksonJuly 9, 2017It's the fourth year since a group of senior musicians and performers came together to engage youth in something different for the summer. It is recurring cycles that after exams ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterPart II: Dealing with that irascible garbage dilemma
Parry BellotJune 24, 2017Looking at the total picture (especially in the context of post ERIKA and REBUILDING DOMINICA BETTER…) one thing Dominicans would very much like to see the gov't give serious and ...
