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Fine Point
Remembering Louis Benoit's services to football and cricket
Phillip AlleyneNov. 4, 2015The recent passing of Louis Benoit, well known as Zaboca, brought memories of his services as an official in football and cricket. His death came as no surprise as he ...
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Spotlight
Artistes secure your future: You never know
Ian JacksonNov. 4, 2015No one knows the time or the hour. We all know this too well but it behooves every man to put aside something, by way of investment, for old age. ...
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Our Caribbean
It's all down to money
Sir Ron SandersOct. 30, 2015Money matters. It will matter a great deal when representatives of about 200 countries meet in Paris from 1 to 11 December to try, yet again, to settle a universally ...
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The View from Europe
How much does Europe matter
David JessopOct. 30, 2015In the last few weeks the European Commission (EC) has made available two discussion documents that will change Europe's future relationship with the Caribbean and Latin America.
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Spotlight on Sport
Further unravelling by FIFA
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 21, 2015Latest action taken by the FIFA Ethics Committee is the placement of a ban on the beleaguered president of the world football governing body Sepp Blatter. He has been given ...
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The View from Europe
Collateral Damage
David JessopOct. 19, 2015A little over a week ago the British parliamentarian, Sir Eric Pickles - a cabinet member until May of this year and a former Chairman of the Conservative Party - ...
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In Retrospect
The ten essential items for emergency preparedness
Dr. Emanuel FinnOct. 19, 2015In the aftermath of Tropical Erika and the trial of devastation, deaths and despair it left on our island home, there is and should be a heightened sense for the ...
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The View from Europe
Latin America and the Caribbean not an Economic Entity
David JessopOct. 15, 2015Is it helpful to describe Latin America and the Caribbean as if it were a single entity? What does this do to the way the Caribbean is perceived?
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Our Caribbean
Hail to Jamaican accomplishment
Sir Ron SandersOct. 15, 2015On 13 October 2015 it was 44 years since a West Indian won the Man Booker Prize for the finest fiction written in English for the year. The first and ...
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Spotlight
The Reggae identity and sub-culture
Ian JacksonOct. 15, 2015In America once you are black and from the Caribbean and do not talk like Americans people assume you're from Jamaica. Now, if you have dreadlocks you are more than ...
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Living Today
Loss and gain
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 15, 2015No one likes to lose anything. People strive hard to win a simple game, although there is no material reward. People work hard to win a competition. Most of the ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Crowd pressure
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 15, 2015Generally, the biggest crowds are these days expected in India for international cricket matches. It is not unusual to have as many as forty or fifty thousand turning up for ...
