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Amartya Sen, who has a new book out on justice, once said that one of the biggest problems with colonialism is that it caused the colonized to reject anything which worked in the metropole. Of course this lead to all the failures of Third Worldism and other such movements both here in the Caribbean and [...]
The thing about the Caribbean is that everybody has the same responsibility, which is no responsibility at all!
—Lloyd Best
The Ramsahoye Report, assuming that’s what it really is, is shaping up to be another Rorschach test where everyone sees what they want. But it ultimately came down to a game of setting expectations and [...]
I had a terrific time fulfilling all my youthful dreams and at the same time making life miserable for hypocritical, posturing politicians and, I hope, performing a service for my country. —Robert Novak
I don’t lose that much sleep over, or after, prostitution not only because I can’t really afford to pay for sex but also [...]
Let’s clear up some misconceptions right away. The Population Reference Bureau’s index doesn’t have St Lucia’s poverty rate as anywhere near Haiti’s and those who keep repeating this are just revealing that they haven’t even bothered to actually look at the numbers. The population living under $US1.25 per day is at 20.9 while the number [...]
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