Mahogany CoConut Blog

One Caribbean Nation. Once more the images of a fractured Caribbean have emerged. Apparently, President Biden, has invited two Caribbean leaders, to a Climate Change conference. The MCG does not engage in highlighting individual regional leaders, unless we deem it central to the point we are trying to make.   While we cannot tell Biden or any other country’s leader whom to extend invitations, we are of the view, that CARICOM as a regional force, must start to assert its independence, in matters relating to climate change, poverty, hunger and other maladies affecting the region and the world. Our failure to act as one body with one voice, is sending a message to our citizens, that we can be pushed around by those who control global politics, wealth, and power. Climate change is already wreaking havoc in the Caribbean. It is known that our coral reef, coast lines and water supply, are under tremendous threats. Biden and others cannot save us -we need to save ourselves. Rather...

One Caribbean Nation. by Sir Ron Saunders America’s battered democracy Sir  Ron Saunders Recent events in Washington, the revered capital of the United States of America, have shaken the moral authority of that country to lecture, threaten and coerce other countries in the name of democracy, rule of law and human rights. The disgraceful scenes of Americans storming their own sacred Capitol Building – the long-claimed sanctuary for democracy – was bad enough, but what preceded it was worse. A mob, mobilised to be lawless and violent, was deplorable. What was despicable were the actions of Republican Congresspersons, who do know better, to wilfully and shamelessly try to overturn the will of the people to change the government through a democratic process that was confirmed by state and federal courts and by the Supreme Court itself. A sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump, openly encouraged a mob to be lawless and to do precisely what they did – attack the bastion o...