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One Caribbean Nation. Jamaican gymnast astounds Toni-Ann Williams Jamaica's Toni-Ann Williams defied the odds to lead the University of California Berkeley to an upset win over the number-4 ranked Utah in what was a closely contested battle in collegiate gymnastics on Saturday. Competing with a bruised knee that was supposed to have kept her from contesting the floor routine for the second meet in a row, Williams landed an impressive dismount on the beam and then surprised everyone. “She landed her beam dismount and said 'Gosh, that felt good. Maybe I should do floor,” Coach Liz Crandall-Howell recounted. “She said it kind of tongue-in-cheek kidding...but then she wasn't really kidding.” The impressive beam routine had given the Jamaican Olympian a boost in confidence. I finished my beam routine and I was feeling good, so I joked that I could probably do a floor routine,” she said. “I had nothing to lose. I had a lot of trust in my training and it was the sam...

One Caribbean Nation. The Black Panther reveal BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE COULD DISPEL ONE OF HISTORY’S GREATEST LIES Nok Scenes of daily life harvest mothers with children culture sculpture Terracotta before 6th cent BC Nigeria Africa. Image 1 of 2 NEXT IMAGE Black Panther, the blockbuster movie, imagines an advanced African nation untouched by colonialism. That’s not fiction, it’s true history that was covered-up by racist Europeans; therefore it could blow one of history’s greatest lies right out of the water. The movie creates the technically potent black African city state of Wakanda that has somehow evolved without being touched by colonialism. Fantasy, right? Well, yes, in its comic book inventions it is. But this misses the point about one of the most insidious effects of colonialism in Africa. The whole history of the continent has been rigged by Europeans to suggest that before the arrival of the white man Africans had been incapable of creating any semblance of m...

One Caribbean Nation. Caribbean contingent represents in Black Panther LOOP NEWS  CREATED : 20 FEBRUARY 2018 ENTERTAINMENT  As the accolades for Black Panther continue to roll in, the Caribbean community celebrates those of Caribbean heritage who took part.  According to the  Karibbean  Kollective , several actors and others who worked on the film are of Caribbean heritage and continue to make the region proud. Nabiyah Be (Jamaica) The daughter of Jamaican reggae legend Jimmy Cliff,  Nabiyah Be  plays  Nightshade  in the film. Winston Duke (Trinidad and Tobago) Winston Duke was born in Argyle, Tobago, and moved to the US at age nine. He plays the M'Baku, one of T'Challa's biggest adversaries. He's been named as one of the 'ones to watch' in a recent  Vanity Fair feature .  Letitia Wright (Guyana) Shuri, the smart, clever younger sister of King T'Challa, is played by Letiti...

One Caribbean Nation.                                   WEEK - END COMMENT Once more we are confronted with the sad reality, that the potential for a truly Caribbean nation state, is approaching full disarray. The major players on this occasion are: Jamaica, Guyana and St. Lucia. A report presented by former Prime Minister of Jamaica, Mr. Bruce Golding, has advised the government of Jamaica to seriously reexamine, the benefits of the Caribbean Single Market economy(CSME).   The report is suggesting that if Jamaica cannot identify the benefits of such membership, it should abandon the CSME. This would be music to the ears of Prime Minister Andrew Holness, whose negativity toward regional integration, is approaching legendary status. On more than one occasion, the Mahogany Coconut Group, has asked Holness to mend his ways to no avail. We cannot jump to conclusions regarding Guyana ...

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One Caribbean Nation. by  Kurleigh Martin Trinidad's jihadis: how tiny nation became Isis recruiting ground Trinidad and Tobago The Caribbean nation has one of the world’s highest Isis volunteer rates – and most don’t come back Emma Graham-Harrison and  Joshua Surtees  in Port of Spain Fri 2 Feb 2018  07.22 EST Last modified on Sat 3 Feb 2018  05.58 EST View more sharing options Shares 2,050   An Isis propaganda image showing fighters from Trinidad and Tobago during military training in Syria. F ive years ago, Tariq Abdul Haqq was one of  Trinidad and Tobago ’s most promising young boxers, a Commonwealth Games medallist  with Olympic dreams . 'An incredible transformation': how rehab, not prison, worked for a US Isis convert Read more Now he lies dead somewhere in Iraq or Syria, buried in the ruins of the self-declared caliphate, along with dozens of his...