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’.
