By O. Dave Allen
When colonial authorities arrested Alexander Bedward in 1921 and declared him insane, they weren't diagnosing mental illness—they were executing a calculated strategy to destroy Jamaica's most powerful Black religious leader.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 14, 2025 - The 2025 Inter-American Development Bank report on Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean revealed statistics that many already knew, many...
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, December 21, 2025 - Six years ago this month, when Guyana began producing oil, the nation looked to the future with hope and anticipation. From a small country...
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica December 21, 2025 - The bodies keep piling up in Caribbean waters—approximately 100 souls obliterated by American drone strikes, their trials conducted by algorithm, their executions carried...
Washington lectures small island nations about selling citizenship while running its own billion-dollar visa program, the hypocrisy isn't just glaring—it's insulting
On December 16, 2025, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation...
KINGSTON, JAMAICA, December 16, 2025 - These are reflections on a prominent news item in The Jamaica Observer of Friday, December 5, titled: "(L)et's get it done", concerning an unimagined public...
GEORGETOWN, GUYANA, December 1, 2025 - Last month, the Inter-American Development Bank released its Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean, revealing that an estimated 58% of...
CARIBBEAN | The Unfinished Business: Why Barbados May Be Cambridge Analytica's Next Caribbean Target
By Calvin G. Brown
In October 2010, when a member of Strategic Communications Laboratories tried to pitch the opposition Barbados Labour Party, Alexander Nix's response to their rejection was succinct and...
By O. Dave Allen
MONTEGO BAY, DECEMBER 3, 2025 - As tensions between the United States and Venezuela escalate, Jamaica once again finds itself navigating the delicate waters of great-power competition....
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, November 29, 2025 - Thursday night's electoral results in St. Vincent and the Grenadines landed like a thunderclap across the Eastern Caribbean.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, November 23, 2025 - The African economy is in trouble not because Africans are lazy. It is not only chattel slavery that adversely impacted the African race, but...
A UN disaster response veteran returns home to find devastation—and a relief effort divided by political lines
I have managed disaster responses across 40 countries. I have walked through killing fields...
By O. Dave Allen
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, the reactionary current Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, who was sworn in on May 1, 2025, has has now exposed a familiar fault line...
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