Women activists and feminists have pointed to the way in which women are and have been treated before the courts for criminal offences. In her feminist analysis of the criminal trial process in Canada, and which has relevance for the Caribbean, Marguerite Russell examines various aspects of the criminal justice system. She specifically highlights the [...]

It is not uncommon for the criminal justice system in the Caribbean to be questioned. Too often we hear that there is one law for the rich and one for the poor, one law for whites and browns and one for blacks, one law for men and none for women. This thinking results from the [...]

A small party in Barbados is taking regional governments and political parties to task over their response to the impact of the global economic crisis on the Caribbean. The People’s Empowerment Party (PEP), headed by David Comissiong fingers the political leadership in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago for their lethargic response  to a PEP [...]

As the United States intensifies its war on drugs a group of Caribbean academics is advocating “collaborating with our Latin neighbors in adopting a common front for constructive engagement with the US on this subject”. Norman Girvan, former head of the Trinidad headquartered Association of Caribbean States (ACS) has thrown out the idea to leading [...]

Jamaica is bankrupt.  A rather dramatic opening statement but with the way things are in Jamaica these days it might not be so far-fetched. If Jamaica was a business entity it would be considered to be bankrupt and its creditors would either force it to reorganize or liquidate. Today, we have a situation in Jamaica [...]

With fried fish and johnny cakes on the black sands of ‘Little Ochi’, Mello wraps up the story of a day in his trip from Toronto to Jamaica, the land of his birth.

The agricultural malaise and bauxite industry devastation are captured in part three of Mello’s story of his trip from Toronto to Jamaica, the land of his birth.

Part two of the story of Mello, a resident of Toronto, who travels to Jamaica and recounts two days of a trip in which he encountered everything he loves and hates about the land of his birth.

On April 11, 2002, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chávez was briefly removed from office by an abortive coup d-etat. A documentary on this episode, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised, shows how an alliance of big business, wealthy landowners, and elements of the military conspired to remove him, with the active support of the Bush Administration [...]

Since the 2007 general election, there has been any number of articles, columns and editorials written about the results and about why the People’s National Party (PNP) lost (and how the Jamaica Labour Party won) and the state of the party (the PNP, that is). We have heard and read of the challenges to Portia [...]