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U.S. Marines in Trinidad & Tobago

From one of Trinidad’s news dailies, Newsday, this very disappointing piece from Sunday, 26 October, 2008: US Marines in TT Sunday, October 26 2008 Members of the public in Laventille, Curepe, certain parts of the East and Central were jolted out of their beds early yesterday by the roaring sounds of two marine helicopters flying […]

A Caribbean Love Affair with Obama? “We Need Barack! Jehovah Guide Him”

This is really an exciting time in which to be living, something like a rewind of 1968 combined with 1975 — the revolution of the forgotten peoples and the new social movements on the one hand, and the withdrawal of a bloodied empire and the departure of a criminal president on the other hand, along […]