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One Caribbean Nation. Letter From Brooklyn by Michael Headley Wilfred Abrahams Government muddled Cannabis issue In a Barbados TODAY September 19 article, under the headline, Health official against recreational use of cannabis, David Leacock, Director of the Psychiatric Hospital stated that no one should be using any type of narcotic drug, and that marijuana posed a risk to the health of those who use it. He believed that it should only be used for medicinal purposes. David Leacock was responding to the proposal, made during the September 15th Throne speech, delivered by Governor-General, Dame Sandra Mason, that a new law would be coming that would decriminalize the possession of 14 grams, or less, of cannabis. In the same article, the State-run National Council on Substance Abuse (NCSA) also anticipated an increase in the number of people, who would be seeking counselling, as a result of this new law. And a law enforcement official described this new law as a farce that would creat...

One Caribbean Nation.   Pofessor Justin Robinson Race, gender concern UWI PROFESSOR HIGHLIGHTS DEFICIT OF BLACKS, FEMALES HEADING CORPORATIONS by Marlon Madden One University of the West Indies (UWI) economist is calling for more local and regional research to help inform economic and finance policies in the Caribbean. In addition, Professor Justin Robinson, Interim Director of the Sagicor Cave Hill School of Business and Management Inc., said he was concerned about the low number of black people and women owning or leading corporations in the region, despite them being the majority among the population. Robinson was delivering the Professorial Lecture on Wednesday night, titled Corporate Finance, Capital Markets and Investments in Small Island Developing States. Speaking about one of his more popular research papers which looked primarily at behavioural and experimental economics, Robinson said he believed the time had come for the Caribbean to “break free from the shackles” of ...

One Caribbean Nation. Caribbean Quotes, Excerpts etc. Marcus Garvey " Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action self reliance,  the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom." Marcus Garvey

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Caribbean Sayings, Proverbs , etc. Blood ticka dan water , but water taste better ( Dealing with friends or strangers is often better  than dealing with family)

One Caribbean Nation. USA Must Stay out of Guyana and Venezuela President Guyana Irfaan Ali US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo The Mahogany Coconut Group is not surprised that almost immediately after the recent elections and the change of government in Guyana, that the USA Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has visited the country, attempting to use the newly elected government, to assist in efforts to remove the current Venezuela government and install a puppet of America’s choice. We urge all CARICOM to unify and defend the sovereignty of Venezuela and the rights of the Venezuelan people, to choose the government of their choice. We also call on the regional leadership, to remind the USA, that the Caribbean will remain a zone of peace and to condemn any attempts by America, to use military force in Venezuela or any other country in the region. The last time we saw the mighty USA in the region, it was crushing the revolutionary government of the people of Grenada. We recall with sh...

One Caribbean Nation. Caribbean Quotes , Excerpts  etc.                                                         Dr. Eric Williams "The eighteenth century was born in the glory that was sugar. ‘the profits of a sugar plantation in any of our West India colonies’ wrote Adam Smith in 1776, ‘are generally much greater than those of any other civilization that is known in Europe or America.’ Sugar occupied the place in the eighteenth-century economy that steel occupied in the nineteenth and oil in the twentieth. Sugar was king."   Dr. Eric Williams (1911 -1981) former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. From Columbus To Castro page 121

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Caribbean Sayings and Proverbs Big tree fall down, goat bite he leaf ( When the mighty fall on hard times, they are disrespected by all)

One Caribbean Nation. Michael Holding By The Mahogany Coconut Group West Indies cricket legend M ichael Holding seems disappointed   that the Australia and England cricket teams, are not responding to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests , with the vigor expressed by the West Indies and England test players, during the West Indies recent tour of England. Holding should remember that the West Indies did England and world cricket a huge favor by agreeing to play in what is now called the “bubble” because of COVID-19. Since that tour is now over England might very well be saying to the West Indies: Out of sight and out of mind. We know that West Indies players , h ave experienced racism when playing in England and Australia and we have historically combatted and defeated such atrocities by defeating them on the field ; we emerged as the greatest test team in the world and held that position for several years. Although we can no longer claim such a title, West Indies cricket teams...

One Caribbean Nation. National Flag of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana The Mahogany Coconut Group is deeply disturbed by the emerging post-election violence in Guyana. Reports from Georgetown reveal there have been four brutal murders to date. The revelation that both Afro and  Indo Guyanese have been victims, indicate that unless there is a swift political and judicial response to these atrocities, the violence that is not unknown to the good people of Guyana would not only continue but could escalate. CARICOM /regional leaders , who were deeply involved in the issues surrounding pre-election Guyana, must now let their voices be heard , and apply the needed pressure to ensure that this violence, does not become the undoing of the country. They must ensure that those, both in government and opposition, present a national unified front against violence, especially rooted in racial and political differences. Exploiting racial and political differences to further opportunistic ...

One Caribbean Nation. The Caribbean Is One Nation. THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED 3/8/16  Haile Drumpf – The Rise of a New Hitler – When the Centre no longer holds.                                   byPachamama                      Donald Trump More than a dozen years ago these writers were denounced when we suggested to those who locate themselves at the center of Caribbean thought that the United States of America was a fascist empire, at its nadir. That financialization had delivered all forms of western capitalism to conditions not dissimilar to Germany 1933. It was a period when fascism, as a social movement, gained ascendency. That unparrelled consolidation of wealth had united global elites into a neo-fascism. Some say an ‘inverted totalitarianism’. Others still, a neo-feudalism. As the ir...

One Caribbean Nation. Thursday Caribbean sayings, Sayings and Proverbs All cassava got same skin but all nah taste same way           (People may look alike , but all act differently)

One Caribbean Nation.  Prime Minister Michael Holness JLP landslide HOLNESS CRUSHES PEOPLE’S NATIONAL PARTY AT THE POLLS by Peter Richards Prime Minister Andrew Michael Holness led his ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) to its first ever consecutive victory in a general election since 1967, with a resounding victory that mirrored the win the party achieved in 1980 when it stormed to a 51-9 margin over the People’s National Party (PNP). Preliminary results show that the JLP, which went into the elections, six months ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 2016 single seat victory, had won 50 of the 63 seats in the Parliament, with Holness indicating that the task ahead is not only for the victorious JLP. “The task ahead of us is for all of us, including the PNP and so tonight I also appeal to PNP supporters do not feel dejected, join us in celebrating Jamaica’s victory. ‘You will have a very important role to play in Jamaica’s stronger recovery and I am clear that there should not be...