Dread Locks enters Miss World pageant
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2nd Screen Nation Digital is Media Awards 2015
The 2ND SCREEN NATION DIGITAL-iS MEDIA AWARDS sponsored by The May Fair Hotel (@TheMayFairHotel) and supported by returning partners Scene TV (@Scene_TV) and AfricaX5 (@AfricaX5) and new Communications Partner for 2015 Modern Communications (@ModernCommsUK), returns again to showcase the best online work made by black British and international digital media creatives working across short film, […]
St Kitts bans Syrians from citizenship program
The tiny Caribbean nation of St. Kitts and Nevis is hardly a hot bed of jihadis. But last month it banned Syrians from their citizenship program; a program that would have given them visa-free travel throughout much of the European Union. For a mere $250,000, a Syrian could have bought a St. Kitts passport, never […]
Small states facing a slide to catastrophe
The success of the current Climate Change conference in Paris for small states will be judged by only two criteria: the limiting of global warming to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius, and firm and binding commitments by the industrialised nations to provide financing for adaptation and mitigation without which small island developing states are […]
Living under the legacy of post Caribbean Apartheid
As is customary with a reparations lecture delivered by the eloquent and charismatic Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, the interest was high. ‘Reparationists’ from all over the country including the acclaimed Esther Standord Xosei; students, enthusiasts and ‘on-the-fencers’ all flocked to the Anatomy Theatre of King’s College, Strand […]
Impact of Chinese on Jamaican society
In the mid-19th century, more than 500 men traveled from China to Panama as labourers. In 1854, 205 Chinese workers demanded to leave Panama because of yellow fever breaking out. They were sent to Jamaica because the country was closer than China. Fewer than 50 immigrants survived. Robert Jackson Chin (Chin Pa-kung), opened a wholesale […]
Daniel Sync speaks on Kano, Adamawa and France attacks
WE FEAR NOT Terror in our nation is spreading like an incurable plague that is set to destroy our very existence and the foundation that God almighty has laid for our generations to come. Many have now resulted to living in fear but one thing is sure, WE SHALL OVERCOME! Even though we walk through […]
Opportunities in Law: If there’s no open door find a window
Last weekend many law students, lecturers and seasoned lawyers gathered in the Mike Goldstein Auditorium at the Coventry Law School for an afternoon of sharing and discussion on opportunities in the legal profession. This Legal Workshop was organised by Terrence Wendell Brathwaite, Sr. Lecturer in Law on behalf of the Coventry Law School in collaboration […]
African Caribbean Soldiers during WWII Part 3
After the War finished, we were looking forward to peace time. We were still in reserve and whilst in our various camps, some of us went through some form of vocational training to prepare us for civilian life. After we were demobbed, it was different. The women were still very nice, but the young men, […]
Black Lives Matter Too: The inequity of Western Media reporting
In the aftermath of the continuous Western media coverage of the Paris attacks by ISIS that killed 129 people, the “Black Lives Matter” Movement in the United States has raised questions about similar atrocities against black people that are either ignored or receive scant attention. How many people know or remember that 148 people – […]