Haiti: Election Violence Escalates
As Haitian presidential candidate and legal scholar Mirlande Manigat set out to begin a campaign rally in Mirebalais on Tuesday 15 March, 2011, her convoy was stoned [fr] by alleged supporters of...
View ArticleHaiti: Was Wyclef Shot or Cut by Glass?
Early on Sunday 20 March, 2011, while Haitians headed to the polls for the second round of a historic and controversial presidential election, a story about Wyclef Jean, the Haitian-born hip hop star...
View ArticleHaiti: Online Reaction to the Duvalier Decision
At the end of January 2012, the investigative magistrate looking into human rights charges against Haiti's ousted dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier, came to the decision that “the statute of...
View ArticleMajor US Drug Bust Forces Trinidad & Tobago to Confront Parallel Economy
Late last week, news broke that a shipment containing over 700 pounds of cocaine, with a street value of US $100 million, was intercepted by US Customers and Border Patrol officials in Norfolk,...
View ArticleTrinidad and Tobago Stunned at Murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal
Senior Counsel and former Independent Senator Dana Seetahal was murdered in Trinidad and Tobago early this morning, reportedly the victim of an organised “hit”. Police are working under the assumption...
View ArticleSilence Will Not Solve Trinidad & Tobago's Crime Problem
Following the widespread shock of Trinidad and Tobago netizens over the murder of attorney Dana Seetahal yesterday, one blog, The Eternal Pantomime, turns the public outcry on its head with a post that...
View ArticleWhy the Press Needs Protection in Trinidad & Tobago
World Press Freedom map, at the Newseum in Washington, DC. Photo by Mr.TinDC, used under a CC license. After the murder of Dana Seetahal earlier this month, one reporter, Mark Bassant, was doggedly...
View ArticleCan Trinidad & Tobago Rise Above Race-Based Politics?
The Hon. Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, speaking in Washington, D.C. last year. Photo by Juan Manuel Herrera/OAS, used under a CC license. Satnarayan (Sat) Maharaj can...
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