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                                                                   The Caribbean Is One Nation.                                                                           Our sister’s keeper                                                                  Trinidad and Tobago National Flag Last week we marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Here in Trinidad and Tobago, it was also a week in which a 26-year-old pregnant woman...

                                                                              The Caribbean Is One Nation. Rihanna used the moment to recall her youth. "Thank you so much," she said. Turning her direction to her mother, she continued, "I'll start by saying just about 20 years ago is when I really started making your life a living hell with my 'annoying little husky man voice,' you'd call it. And I mean just disrupting the entire neighborhood. . . I annoyed every one of my neighbors." We have had reason to comment on the illustrious mega star Rihanna before and we are happy, that on this occasion, our comment is to congratulate her on receiving the American Music Awards, Icon Award. Any objective observer would agree that she deserves such an honor. We at Mahogany Coconut do not hide our e...

                                                                     The Caribbean Is One Nation.                                                                      Sandals Barbados Deal...time will tell by Michael Headley As Barbados is on the verge of celebrating 47 years as an independent nation the current discussion seems to be centered around the concessions, proposed to Sandals International, listed in the interim approval letter, dated November 05, 2013.  It has created more fireworks than  Guy Fawkes had hope to explode under the British  Parliament , on a similar day, November 05,...

                                                        The Caribbean Is One Nation.            A crime that knows no borders By Margaret Diop We observed International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women yesterday and as we mark the next accompanying 16 days of activism against gender violence, the United States of America reaffirms its commitment to preventing and responding to violence against women and girls globally.  The theme of this year’s observance is “Intimate Partner Violence.”  An estimated one in three women worldwide has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime, and intimate partner violence is the most common form of violence experienced by women globally. Gender-based and intimate partner violence cuts across ethnic, racial, socio-economic...

                                                                     The Caribbean Is One Nation. The Poet's Corner Looking Back Hearing de National Anthem I standing ramrod straight I am a proud bajan Some say poor great                                                                               Barbados Flag At de Garrison Savannah Back in nineteen sixty-six See de playing field In a such a muddy fix Never see so much bajans In muh entire life All o’ dem wid one purpose                               ...

                                                              The Caribbean Is One Nation The Poet's Corner Cricket Lovely Cricket Ah, this national game is such a funny game, Named after an insect with a peculiar name. Cricket is a past time played with ball and bat,                          Out in de hot sun each player wears a hat.                              Besides bat and ball are two bails and six sticks, Equally divided and placed at two ends of a pitch. Batsmen bat in pads and a helmet they might wear, Plus another unmentionable that constitutes their gear.                           ...

The Caribbean Is One Nation. The basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.” - JFK by Pachamama President Lyndon B Johnson Everybody seems to remember a gloomy day on November 22 nd 1963 when a volley of bullets rang out in Dallas killing John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), POTUS, and injuring Texas governor Connolly. Despite 50 years of propaganda by the conspirators to cover up the murder of the most powerful man in the world, the truth has emerged. In the last 50 years 2000 books have been written about these events, dozens of movies, many more documentaries, hundreds of unofficial investigations and several official investigations. Some of these official investigations were indeed conducted or controlled by the very people who were part of the criminal conspiracy, to as they said, ‘rid the world of Communism’. As part of the basic conspiracy related persons and possib...