US Student Protests Trigger Haunting Vietnam Nightmares Ahead of 2024 Presidential Elections
Castries (The Voice): The current students’ demonstrations at over-200 university campuses across the United States had, by May 5, seen over 2,400 arrested for protesting against US policy in support of Israel’s punishing war on Gaza and demanding university administrations divest from Israel and recalled similar student protests against the Vietnam War in 1967 and 1968 that helped lead to President Richard Nixon’s resignation.
Caricom Embraces Palestine, Haiti and ALBA-TCP’s Bolivarian Alternative
Castries (The Voice): Never-mind being overly underestimated by critics yet to fully-appreciate its positive roles in quiet management of the processes leading to a peaceful transition to a new ‘government’ in Haiti earlier this week and tempering the noises in the Guyana-Venezuela controversy ahead of heady elections in Caracas in July, the Caribbean Community (Caricom) continues demonstrating it can be counted-on to break-the-ice when it matters, including in global diplomatic deadlocks.
Making Dollars Make Sense!
Castries (The Voice): Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure are just that: statements of intent on how-much government plans or wishes to earn and spend, usually on the basis of also hopefully earning enough to spend.
CARICOM and Haiti over Time and History!
Castries (The Voice): The nations that form the Caribbean Community (Caricom) have demonstrated all manners of ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ leadership in the wider Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region that unites the two neighboring regions in the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (Celac).
Saint Lucian Assumes Presidency of UN Permanent Forum for People of African Descent
Castries (The VOICE): Saint Lucia’s Ambassador Hon. Dr June Soomer will make history yet-again next week, when, on Tuesday, April 16, she will be officially installed as the Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum for People of African Descent.
DANGER: Fooling-Around with Fake
Castries, Saint Lucia: I awoke early on April 1, informing selected friends and colleagues online: ‘Today marks my 48th unbroken year in journalism.’
April 1, 1976 was my first day on the job as Editor of ‘The Crusader’, one of the two major local weekly newspapers, an opposition voice that grew loud in the wilderness of pre-Independent Saint Lucia.
Global Water Can Die From Thirst!
Twenty-twenty three (2023) was not exactly a wet year for water. Instead, last year was the hottest year on record, a reflection of the acute changes haunting humankind in the 21st Century, accelerating faster everywhere than ever before.
Prensa Latina’s ‘Hack Attack’ strengthens urgent calls for a 21st Century ‘Operation Truth’
The mercenary hack attack on Cuba’s national news agency Prensa Latina’s online platform temporarily disabled the 65-year-old South American website, but didn’t disarm the Havana-based purveyor of truth and honest reporting on matters of interest to Latin America and the Caribbean and the global South.
Why are the world’s richest nations so interested in dirt-poor
While the suspense continues and Haitians continue living in limbo, Washington is again using its age-old carrot-and-stick Monroe Doctrine policy approach to its treatment of Haiti, the Caribbean and Latin America, always seen as within US sphere of influence and security interest, in the territorial waters of ‘America’s Backyard’.
