By David Jessop Recently, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Visa and many more premium providers of global web services, temporarily went offline. This was because they had indirectly suffered the effects of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on Dyn, a largely unknown intermediary that enables web users to access the addresses of major […]
By W. Andy Knight Someone on Social media posted that 9/11 was the worst day in America, and that the 2nd worst day was 11/9. On November 9, many of us woke up as though we had a hangover and as though we were kicked in the gut the night before. What we witnessed on […]
We make no apology for the coverage which this paper has given to the just ended United States presidential election campaign. It has been a long, bruising, nasty, divisive battle and we are glad to see the end of it. But while the battle was raging, we felt it was necessary to inform our readers […]
By W. Andy Knight The 2016 US Presidential election campaign has been one of the craziest in the history of the United States. On the face of it, Hillary Clinton is by far the most qualified individual ever to run for the US Presidency. Head to head with Donald Trump, Clinton won all three Presidential […]
By Carlton Joseph The debates are over and the consensus is that Hillary Clinton won all three. The polls have her ahead of Donald Trump in the presidential race. We now have to wait for November 8, 2016 for the final result. So let’s now take a look at the candidates’ policy positions and the […]
By W. Andy Knight Caribbean Canadians are watching the US presidential election campaign in the same way a bystander might gravitate to a gruesome car crash. Many of us have relatives in America and as a result we have a lot at stake in the outcome of this election. In any event, as Canadians we […]
NEW YORK – A Guyana-born police officer was last week found guilty of second-degree murder for fatally gunning down his ex-fiancée back in 2007 in an incident described as the deadly end of the couple’s two-year tumultuous relationship. According to a New York Post report, Harry Rupnarine, 39, was found guilty by a Queens Supreme […]
A 69-year-old Trinidadian woman was found stabbed to death in her Bronx, New York home on Sunday night. The victim, identified by family members as Lila Ramsaran, formerly of Penal, Trinidad, had been stabbed multiple times in the back when police found her inside her house on Cranford Avenue near Hill Avenue in Wakefield about […]
End of US Humanitarian policy toward Haitian migrants By Michael Lashley “My dear friend, …I do not know if you remember the extent of my anguish[ when we first discussed this drastic change in the Americans’ policy towards Haitian migrants].Haiti certainly does not have in place the structures to welcome back home her refugees […]
Letter to the editor What if Hillary Clinton is forced to drop out of the race? Dear Editor: I’m going out on a limb and making a huge prediction: Joe Biden could very well be the next President of the United States. No, I’m not losing my mind nor losing my grip on reality. Why […]
