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One Caribbean Nation. In Brief : Barbados Prime Minister,  Guyana Elections,  Haiti,    West Indies Cricket Team   Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley Haitian Flag  Guyana  President David Granger West Indies Cricket team EmblemAdd caption Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has infuriated some Guyanese with statements she made regarding the Guyana Elections. Mottley questioned how the Chief Electoral Officer, could deem votes to be invalid. One irate Guyanese Imran Khan wrote: “Prime Minister Mottley, in an uncharacteristic wild flight of fancy chomped and challenged “on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Election Officer determine that he should invalidate one vote far less 115,000 votes.” For over three months, the result of the Guyana elections, has been in limbo. The MCG can only hope that Mottley’s actions and the Guyanese response do not seriously damage CARICOM.   The MCG welcomes and congratulates...

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Thought                                         There is a lot of bad in the best of us and there is a lot of good in the  worst of us.

One Caribbean Nation. Caribbean among countries unfairly targeted by US Senators over Cuba Three US Senators, who have done little to advance the interests of the Caribbean and with whom requests for meetings by many Caribbean Ambassadors are usually shunted to their staff, are now proposing US government punishment for Caribbean countries that request assistance from Cuba for medical personnel. The three Senators are all members of the Republican Party. Two of them represent Florida – Marco Rubio and Rick Scott - and the other, Ted Cruz, is a Senator from Texas. Senators Rubio and Cruz have strong Cuban heritage and are known to be virulently opposed to the Cuban government. Senator Scott is a former Governor of Florida and has been a senatorial representative of the State since 2019, having run a campaign wooing the significant Cuban-American population. On June 17, the three Senators introduced in the US Senate, the “Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act”, which, if it is adopted, w...

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Thought                                                               After one thing there is a  next.

One Caribbean Nation. As Black progressives and other informed, enlightened citizens, seek to identify with the George Floyd protests in America, it is becoming embarrassingly clear that the region’s educational systems, have failed to explain the importance of the historical connection between Afro America and the Afro Caribbean. The MCG, unapologetically, aligns with all those people and individual countries, who are actively protesting the brutal public execution of Afro American George Floyd. Those who believe that this should be of no concern to the region, are to be forgiven for it is really not their failure but the societies from which they come, that have refused to enlighten them. We cannot be diplomatic, and sugar coated, on this sordid or any other issue that seeks to justify and defend, the continued murder of Black Americans by those who are supposed to execute and defend the law. We are at one with the Trinidad and Tobago calypsonian, the Mighty Stalin, who in one ...

One Caribbean Nation. Letter From Brooklyn According to  http://www.historyofmasks.com/ , masks have been around for over 9000 years and the oldest found mask is from 7000 BC.  Masks have been used in various cultures for rituals, religious  ceremonies and  in the theatre.  Ancient masks were made of wood, leather, and   metals and they were used for protection or to scare enemies. Paper and cloth have also been used in mask making.  Movie characters like the Lone Ranger, and Zoro both wore masks to protect their identities, as they did good deeds to help their fellowman.  Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, masks have become necessary as protection from spreading the deadly droplets to health care workers, first responders, and the general population, who were not initially included.  People have gotten comfortable behind masks because they also give a sense of power, security and anonymity....

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Thought                                     A man is never old until regrets replace dreams.

One Caribbean Nation. Black lives Matter More Than This  Alan Sheppard

One Caribbean Tue, May 26, 8:18 PM (12 days ago) Biden's Apology During former Vice President Joseph Biden's interview, on May 22, with 'The Breakfast Club' host Charlamagne tha God, in which Biden said that if African Americans have to decide between he and Trump, 'they ain't Black", is a classic example of the utter contempt that most of the Democratic leadership has for this voting block.  All Democratic candidates know that come election day, the majority Black vote is secured, for them, and the candidates know, that they don't  have to earn this vote.  In political parlance, most Blacks typically vote the Democratic ticket, rather than vet the candidates, or compare and contrast them with rivals, who are also vying for City, State or Federal office. Every two, four or six years, all potential Democratic candidates, briefly come around the proverbial masses, at churches, civic organizations etcetera, accompanied by the historical '...

One Caribbean Nation. Baby steps - Giant Undertaking   As the Caribbean region diligently turns to what is hopefully the “new norm” or the post COVID-19 era, we note the tentative baby steps, in what will be a giant undertaking. Caribbean social and political culture is steeped in the “creep before you can walk” philosophy, and from all indications, this gradualism or “old norm”, will continue, as we confront the “new norm”. It seems almost like a cautionary tale affliction. The MCG understands this approach because the indelible scars of a people still caught in defeating the psychological remnants of brutal slavery and now persistent post slave and post-colonial eras , cannot be expected , to be exceptionally capable or aggressively confident of understanding or even capturing and developing their true worth. We therefore always seem to be taking baby steps in socio economic development. From the Federation experiment to the present post-independence period, we seem to ...

One Caribbean Nation.        " Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."                                                   Martin Luther King Jr.