By Gavin Metcalf | The Conversation The Princess of Wales released a moving video message on March 22 to address speculation about her health. In it, the future queen disclosed that she’d been diagnosed with cancer following tests conducted after she underwent major abdominal surgery at a clinic in London in January. Catherine explained that she was undergoing “preventative […]
Editorial credit: Darwin Brandis / Shutterstock.com By Dannagal G. Young | The Conversation It’s an uncomfortable truth: Jon Stewart and Donald Trump both tapped the same well of latent public disaffection with politics and the media in the 2000s. Trust in media and government had been declining for several decades. But the symbiotic relationship between the White House and […]
The ballot sorting process in action at the Board of Elections in Queens. Credit: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY By Rachel Holliday Smith New Yorkers, the 2024 voting season is here and presidential candidates aren’t the only ones on the ballots — with three different election days approaching. While the race for the Oval Office is grabbing all […]
Editorial credit: mark reinstein / Shutterstock.com By Spencer Goidel | The Conversation One of the four criminal trials of Donald Trump was slated to start in the next few days, but has been delayed on procedural grounds. There was a time when it appeared possible all of his trials could happen before the November election. Now it is unclear […]
Editorial credit: arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com Reprinted with permission By Jason Marczak and Wazim Mowla | Atlantic Council Haiti’s recent turmoil proves true the saying that “each time history repeats itself, the price goes up.” That is the unfortunate history of the first independent Caribbean state, forced from its 1804 birth to pay for its survival at a high cost, […]
By Leo Gilling On Thursday, March 14, the Privy Council quashed the Adidja Palmer (VK: Vybz Kartel) case. The London-based court ruled that attempts to bribe the trial jury in the original murder case of Clive “Lizard” Williams made the conviction unsafe. The results of the original conviction we can put aside for now. The […]
Photo courtesy: Caribbean Business Report The Caribbean Exports Joellen Laryea has met with the Swedish Ambassador Anders Bengtcén, to explore potential trade bridges between the Caribbean and Sweden. Sweden presents an interesting opportunity for some Caribbean businesses seeking new trade and investment opportunities. Trade between CARIFORUM and Sweden is governed by the Economic Partnership Agreement […]
Editorial credit: Mike van Schoonderwalt / Shutterstock.com By Sunita Sohrabji | Ethnic Media Services More than 160 detained migrants have embarked on a hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, Washington, following the death of a migrant who had been held there for more than four years. Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed that […]
By Eric Smalley | The Conversation It’s official. Joe Biden and Donald Trump have secured the necessary delegates to be their parties’ nominees for president in the 2024 election. Barring unforeseen events, the two will be formally nominated at the party conventions this summer and face off at the ballot box on Nov. 5. It’s a safe […]
Editorial credit: Nelson Antoine / Shutterstock.com By Amalendu Misra | The Conversation A violent uprising in the Caribbean nation of Haiti has put the spotlight on the man leading the mayhem – a homicidal gang boss and former policeman called Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier. Over the past two weeks, Haiti’s powerful gangs have plunged a country […]
