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One Caribbean Nation. Diaspora Voices Pofessor Justin Robinson Prof. C. Justin Robinson is a national of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, He obtained his PhD in Finance from the University of Manchester, UK. A Professor of Corporate Finance, he is currently Pro Vice Chancellor and Campus Principal, University of the West Indies Five Islands Campus. Professor Robinson also serves as a Director of the Central Bank of Barbados, Member of the Fiscal Responsibility Mechanism, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Director Jamaica Money Market Brokers International and Director WIBISCO.  He also serves as Chair of the Ratings Committee of CARICRIS (the Caribbean’s sole credit rating agency), and President of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society. The 2026 Fifa World Cup has ignited animated conversations about race and skin color. Consider Vinícius Júnior, Champions League winner, global icon, a talent commanding the attention of millions. Yet match after match, stadium after stadium, ...

One Caribbean Nation. “As a people and as a country, we still prefer to ignore that racism exists in our beautiful country.” “Like I said, racism in Barbados is just swept under the carpet, appearing at times and causing push -back in a country that is more than 90 per cent black.” “It is time to deal with the matter once and for all.”                             Carol Martindale, Executive Editor Nation Barbados, Wednesday, February 10, 2021. Racism Alive and very well in Beautiful Barbados The Mahogany Coconut Group takes note of the recent racist outburst of white Barbadian, Clifford Corbin. Corbin has familial connections to one of the most prominent business families on the island. We are not going to immerse ourselves, in pseudo intellectualizing about racism in Barbados. Pseudo and armchair psychologists and psychiatrists are a dime a ...

One Caribbean Nation. Diaspora leaders: Come with a plan so we can help by Marlon Madden Yvette Clarke Political leaders in the Caribbean Diaspora have urged tourism officials in Barbados and the rest of the region to come up with a viable plan for post-COVID Caribbean tourism and development and approach them for assistance. While insisting that this must be done in a collective way, political leaders of Caribbean heritage told an online Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) forum on Wednesday that it was also imperative that the region explore other areas for development beyond tourism. New York Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who is of Jamaican heritage, stressed that the region must build on existing relationships and agreements with more developed nations as it seeks to expand beyond tourism and attain “first world status”. She said: “I think that there has been a benign neglect of the region and I have my theories why that has been the case. However, we are facing new times and new d...

The Caribbean Is One Nation.                                                              The Black Cats Verses the Black Lackeys By Pachamama We watch a boring cricket test match as the cultural dead-endedness of Caribbean societies is demonstrated through cricket. Cricket as a cultural expression of the British was never going to be susceptible to the radical transformation, in the Caribbean, it faced after the cultural revolution in North American, giving them baseball. For the Blacks with White masks at the WICBC and amongst the elites in the Caribbean are even more protective of this traditional British game than even the very British themselves.   Former players, administrators and newly minted Black lackeys get to trot out their knighthoods when cricket is playing. For them it is in the service of Queen and ...