BEIJING, China, - Por Xin Ping - Sept, 2021 - Ernesto is a Cuban farmer. Twenty-five years ago, he lost his left leg. Every day, he works in the field with a prosthesismade of aluminium and plastic fibres, rough and rigid. Ernesto wants a specialized prosthesis of good quality so that he can work better. However, due to the U.S. embargo, the rigid prosthesis is all he could get.
Florida, United States, September 4, 2021 - In my April 2020 commentary: “GUYANA | Workable, Transparent Gov't Policy Needed for Oil and Gas Investment” an important bullet point read: “Guyana has but one limited, time-bound chance, to make oil and gas its pathway to sustainable development with environmental and human development equity.”
KINGSTON, Jamaica, August 24, 2021 - As of two days ago there were 213 million people infected with the coronavirus and 4.5 million deaths, (WHO updates). This is the comparison to January 2021 commencement of the vaccine roll out internationally, which recorded 93 million infected and 2 million deaths worldwide.
MONTEGO BAY, July 14, 2021 - The Cuban Revolution continues to be the proverbial bone that's permanently stuck in the craw of the United States government, having suffered the indignity of the popular overthrow of its puppet Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar and the nationalization of key companies and industries.
MONTEGO BAY, July 10, 2021 - I am highly disappointed in the position taken by former Jamaican ambassador to the UN Curtis Ward in throwing cold water on CARICOM’s offer to play a lead role in the national dialogue needed to bring all the parties together in preparation for national elections.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, 22nd June 2021 - When the majority of humanity citizens through their representation in United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) gather on June 23, 2021, to vote on the resolution entitled the ‘Necessity of ending the economic commercial and financial blockade of Cuba,’ it will mark the 29th consecutive year that a vote against ‘war by other means’, of the 59 year –old criminal blockade of our sister nation has been adopted overwhelmingly, for its unconditional lifting.
PORT-OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, June 12, 2021 - The heated media debates on the UWI Chancellor’s Governance Report and its alleged connections to the delay in the renewal of the Vice-Chancellor have given rise to speculation as to whether there exists a “Bermudez Triangle” comprising the Chancellor, the St. Augustine Principal and the regional governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland, June 7, 2021 - On Wednesday the third of June, former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson, was invited by the Manning’s School Restoration Committee to launch a fundraising drive, aimed at collecting one hundred million dollars to restore the historic Thomas Manning Building at the much-celebrated Manning’s School in Savanna-la-mar.
MONTEGO BAY May 24, 2021 - MSNBC’s Ali Velshi is one mainstream reporter who has sought to level the playing field as far as the Palentinian/Israeli conflict is concerned, pointing out that while Israel may have a right to exist, the Palentinians must also be accorded not only a right to exist, but also a right to be free of Israel's apartheid policy.
MIAMI, Florida, March 10, 2021 - Guyana’s 78.3 thousand population occupies a land mass of 83,000 sq ml, compared to Singapore’s 279.6 sq ml with 5.7 million population and England’s 50,301 sq ml with population 56.3 million.
