BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, January 17, 2023 - On the 21st of January 2023, Barbarians will celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the birth of the Rt. Excellent Errol Walton Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados.
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The ancient Timbuktu manuscripts of Mali were back in the headlines following internet giant Google’s initiative to host a collection of them at an online gallery. The images of the documents, text in Arabic, can be found at a page called Mali Magic.
PLANTATION, Florida, August 10, 2022 - The Caribbean sea represents the lifeblood of the economies of the Caribbean. Countries that for centuries have been washed by its waters which has provided sustenance for its inhabitants. This includes food from fisheries as well as other economic activities through the transportation of goods and people by way of ships and boats.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, April 14, 2022 - As the problem of re-settlement of the world's refugees continue to challenge many nations of the world, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to shift his solution to Africa, where he has made a partnership agreement with Rwanda's president Paul Kagami, to move thousands of unauthorised migrants seeking sanctuary in the UK to the east African country of Rwanda for a small fee.
Washington, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) For many, rather than a celebration of peace and shared prosperity between Native American tribes and Pilgrims, Thanksgiving represents the dark shadow of genocide and the resilience of native people.
MONTEGO BAY, November 2021 - As I continue the discussions, without any apology, about the squalid way the early history of Jamaica has been treated by the cast of all-white chroniclers, including author of the book… History of Jamaica... Clinton Black (not his real name)… there is a phrase 'Proactive Inhibitions' or 'Interference' that I must introduce.
Bullet holes found in the wood surrounds of the NatWest Bank in Bamber Bridge, in Lancashire in the north of England, in the late 1980s led to the rediscovery of an event that saw some of the few shots fired in anger in England during World War II, which had been largely forgotten. These were not shots fired by invading troops, but by American GIs against their own military police.
THE activistic role of the Anglican Church, also referred to as the Church of England, as a socio-religious and political institution within the Jamaican society during the period of colonialism and slavery, in particular, has been well documented and hotly debated by scholars for decades.
AFTER the December 27 Sam Sharpe War of 1831-32, over 200 black people, all slaves — women and men — were rounded up by the British Militia and shot in cold blood in the square at Lima, near Adelphi in St James. No other bloodshed in both the colonial and modern history of Jamaica ever came close to the 'Infamy at Lima' — the official name given by regional archivist for the Anglophone Caribbean, Clinton V Black (not his real name), to that numbing experiential page in the history of western Jamaica in particular.
KINGSTON, Jamaica August 31, 2021 - For the first time, the United Nations is today commemorating August 31, as “The International Day for People of African Descent.” This follows its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly on December 16 2020, by way of Resolution 75/170.
