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TEXAS billionaire, Allen Stanford, swept into the Caribbean like a hurricane, taking the region by storm in the guise of a cricket enthusiast bent on reviving the saggng fortunes of the game so loved by so many millions around the world. He spread his dollars around through the 20/20 version of cricket that became an

Israel’s 22-day military assault on Gaza snuffed out the lives of 1,300 Palestinians (a third being children) with 13 Israeli deaths, leaving thousands of Gaza residents injured and homeless. Talk about collective punishment and disproportionate force!  

ONE of the good things about beginning a new year is that it affords us all the opportunity to self-evaluate and make requisite adjustments to our lifestyles. For many of us, as we begin this New Year, there is the feeling of apprehension and maybe even trepidation at the prospect of what may be ahead.

(hutchlin@gmail.com) EVERY year around this time, so-called prophets, soothsayers, psychics and other people who profess to ‘see’ into the future emerge to give their ‘predictions’ on what the next 12 months may hold. I read them out of curiosity, and as I go through their ‘predictions’, most of the times I can’t help but think

YOSEF SHEININ, the chief rabbi of Ashdod, was understandably distraught at the funeral of Irit Shetreet, one of four Israelis to be killed by Palestinian rockets since Israel launched its bombing campaign against the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Sunday. However, he was wrong to say that her death was “the latest manifestation of 3,000 years

Perspectives ‘…not long ago, South America was the only continent without a sustainable integration that goes beyond trading arrangements; but now, there is the South American Community of Nations (SACN)’ HUMANITY thrives under conditions of real integration. Gandhi firmly believed that a world federation of interdependent states was the best way forward. And Dr. Cheddi

THE ‘UNPAYABLE DEBT’ TO CUBA A JAMAICAN lad, 12 years old when Fidel Castro and his ‘comrades’ stormed the Monacada Barracks to herald the downfall of the United States-backed notorious dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, has been reflecting on 50 years of the Cuban Revolution and what it has meant for Cubans and Cuba’s enduring solidarity with poor and

New Year’s Musings I AIM to stay fine in 2K9 – that’s my resolution for this New Year. While I intend to stay fine in the physical slim and trim sense, I also plan to be fine in the feeling good and better sense of the word. For me, 2K9 should be like a fine