One for the TV cameras – Smile! So it started with a bang and ended with a tush: Colombian soldiers in hot pursuit, take out Farc rebels across the border in Ecuador and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez threats war, come hell or high-water against Colombia and its evil empire ally, the Read more…
Like the Haitian revolution before it, the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and its leader, Fidel Castro sent fear and trepidation through the hearts of the Caribbean’s rulers of the day. The socialist People’s National party (PNP) as the party in power of the British Jamaican colony within the Federation of Read more…
Poor governance, unemployment, crime stalks the island. Most of what the world knows about Jamaica is associated with the work of Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey and Michael Manley, along with the island’s indomitable sprinters. It is because of the island’s history of oppression that the reggae musician, the race pride Read more…