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Michael Headley One Caribbean Nation. Letter From Brooklyn By Michael Headley Earlier today, January 10th, a caller on VOB's (Voice Of Barbados) down to brass tacks, requested that speakers comments, for the January 19th, snap General Election, should refrain from engaging in Gutter Politics. I found this laughable because without some so-called Gutter Politics the electorate will be treated to a barrage of hyperbolic statements, from various politicians, regarding how many more houses, roads, schools, etcetera, that they will build, if they are elected or reelected.   The reigning Politicians, and aspiring ones, will extol the virtues of how they have, or will, skillfully handle the economy, tourism and other industries, agriculture, health care, unemployment, old age pension, increasing crime and lawlessness.  They are trying to convince   potential voters that they have the tools to steer the ship of state into a safe harbor.  But history shows that th...

One Caribbean Nation. By William Skinner Staci Abrams Kamala Harris Map of Dekalb County Georgia Georgia has often been considered by those in the Diaspora, as a cultural backwater, never to be compared with the mighty New York or the less mighty Ontario. For those Caribbean residents, who have made Georgia their home, the USA Elections of 2020 and the recently concluded senatorial run offs, have given impetus to burying this myth about Georgia, mostly referred to as Atlanta, its capital city. Caribbean Georgians obviously celebrated the victories because they have always favored the Democratic Party. The immigration policies of the Republican Party, and its apparent embrace of racist elements, have certainly not endeared them to   those in the Diaspora.   When President Trump declared that some immigrants were from “shit hole” countries, it was considered an offensive and unwarranted assault and insult on all immigrants. While it cannot be denied that the Caribbean/...

One Caribbean Nation. By Moses Nagamootoo The siege of the Capitol Building Moses V. Nagamootoo FOR THOSE OF us who shared the shame of what was described as “the crime of the century”, United States President Donald Trump reminded us of Jim Jones, on the eve of the “Jonestown Massacre” – the ghastly 1978 mass murder-suicide in Guyana. The evidence captured live on television on Wednesday, January 6, is compelling like a giant freight-truck in our face that the charge given by Trump to his far-right zealots to march on Capitol Hill was like a lethal Kool-Aid cocktail. The attackers, described by president-elect Joe Biden and many other American leaders as “thugs” and “mob”, invaded and occupied the Capitol. It was momentarily a palace coup. As vice-president Mike Pence was being whisked away to a secure location, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other terrified members of Congress and their staff were seen frantically diving for cover. The rag-tag militias were invariably hailed as “pa...