Black Alliance for Peace (BAP – USA), people-centered human rights project against war, repression and imperialism, condemns the arrogance and illegality of United Nations Special Envoy for Haiti Helen La Lime’s July 8 statement that Haitian Prime Minister Claude Joseph will be the new president, just one day after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. […]
By Carlton Joseph Last Monday, United States President Donald Trump decided to leave the hospital to which he was admitted on Friday, and have a motorcade from one entrance of the building to another, using his “illness” as a political campaign rally and photo op, while putting his supporters at risk of catching and spreading […]
By Kuba Shand-Baptiste Many of you won’t have heard of Matthew John Lee. I hadn’t, until recently. But his memorial page on Facebook, set up by his family after his death in 2013, describes him as a person who was brought up to be “caring” and “very helpful”, going out of his way to assist […]
OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces has issued new orders to military personnel as senior commanders seek to address allegations of having been soft on hate in the ranks. The orders aim to take a harder line on “hateful conduct” following a rash of high-profile incidents involving military members being publicly linked to hateful actions […]
MIAMI — The United States Southern Command here, otherwise known as SOUTHCOM, says the US Air Force will temporarily deploy four aircraft and crews to Curaçao to support enhanced counter-narcotics operations with international partners targeting illicit traffickers in the Caribbean. On Friday, SOUTHCOM said that two patrol aircraft, an E-3 Sentry (AWACS) and E-8 […]
The Caribbean community in Toronto is relieved that trustees at the Toronto District School Board, (TDSB) last Wednesday, pulled the plug on the decade-old School Resource Officer (SRO) program. Members of the Caribbean community have been consistently calling for the removal of the program, which placed armed police officers in 45 schools across the city. […]
Declaring that transnational organised crime such as arms and drug trafficking remains a “cancer” plaguing the Caribbean, a senior United States military official has said Jamaica remains a critical partner in coordinating the regional response to the crime. “We must combat and defeat transnational organised crime, which is a cancer that plagues our region,” deputy […]
