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Christopher Famous remembers the late Lovina Bailey Flood, who will be laid to rest today

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, as incorrect as those opinions may be. This week, Khalid Wasi wrote an opinion on Caribbean history. Considering his constant bashing of the region, I found it an interesting topic for him to write about. “Cert...

More often than not, it seems as if people around the world have allowed themselves to believe that colonialism was and remains some fairytale read in a book. You know, the stories in which the handsome prince marries the glowing bride and all in the...

The Parliament of Westminister in London is considered “the mother of all parliaments”. For more than 900 years, laws have been passed inside those chambers that governed not only how England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland were run, but the entirety of...

In the late 1940s, students from around the Caribbean and North Atlantic attended university in London. These persons included Errol Barrow, of Barbados, Eugenia Charles, of Dominica, Michael Manley, of Jamaica, Lynden Pindling, of the Bahamas, and L...

On July 7, British prime minister Boris Johnson finally resigned. Or claimed he would resign. Undone by his own Cabinet ministers, who in realising that their own credibily was at stake, he decided to jump ship. What does this mean for the British Ov...

Over the past week, the Caribbean region has lost two of its foremost statesmen. Similar in age and political era. Both were part of the political maturation of their respective islands, closely involved in the leadership that took their countries fr...

In the 1950s, two young girls from the island of Tortola in the Virgin Islands sat next to each other in primary school and in high school. One young girl from the east end of the island; the other from the central mountains of the island. Rocky ...

“What a plot, dem a plot ’gainst I and I” — Ziggy Marley On February 20, 2019, the British House of Commons released a report from its Foreign Affairs Committee. This report was entitled Global Britain and the British Overseas Territories: ...

Country above self is the motto of the twin-island federation of St Kitts & Nevis. A motto that is, evidently, not just words, but a daily way of life. This ancestral Caribbean homeland of an extremely large proportion of Bermudians was the first st...