The only way to be heard
I’ve never lived in an inner city community, I’ve only walked or driven through them. I’m lost on the logic that says the price of …
Posts in category Caribbean News
The Bahamian Behemoth
The Bahamas are a proverbial stone’s throw from the southern tip of the Unites States. Their proximity and crystal blue waters, among many other features, …
LGBT Jamaicans holding first gay pride celebration on island
By DAVID McFADDEN KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica’s LGBT community is holding its first gay pride celebration, a weeklong observance that was previously almost unthinkable in …
Stepping Outside Our Comfort Zone
By Calibe Thompson First generation immigrants from the Caribbean often keep amongst ourselves. Especially if we didn’t go to school here. We go to Caribbean …
Many leave Dominican Republic before deportation
By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ and DANICA COTO Associated Press OUANAMINTHE, Haiti — Thousands of people from Haiti or merely of Haitian descent aren’t waiting to …
Shut up and take it
If my title this week sounds lewd and offensive, it’s because it is. Especially to the women who heard it once from their perpetrators, then …
US, Cuba set to reboot relations over 5 decades after split
By PETER ORSI Associated Press HAVANA — Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag is set to fly outside the country’s diplomatic mission in the United …
Haitian evictions, an international disgrace
In my last column we looked at the 200 year history of tension between the neighboring nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Now I’d …
Haitian evictions, an international disgrace [part 1]
By Calibe Thompson I think we’re all repulsed by the Dominican Republic’s leaders right now. They’ve made the decision to deport possibly hundreds of thousands …
PBS TV Series, “Taste the Islands”
The ever popular PBS Caribbean Cooking show “Taste the Islands with Chef Irie” began airing Monday on Create® Tv nationwide. If you have not seen …