By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist When the new COVID-19 vaccines go into use in December, regulatory authorities are poised for a cataclysm of people reporting side effects. A group of doctors met with the US Centre for Disease Control and ...
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By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Along with the coronavirus, the other phenomena that gripped the entire world, recently, was the presidential election in the United States. It has now ended and, even though I wholeheartedly join the world as everyone ...
Read More »For Hindus, Christmas Begins With Divali
By Dr. Kumar Mahabir Contributing Columnist For Hindus, Christmas begins with Divali — the annual Festival of Lights — which usually falls in November. As followers of an eclectic faith, Hindus celebrate Divali, as well as Christmas. For them, Jesus ...
Read More »BLM (Black Lives Matter) Must Also Stand For Black Liberation Money
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist The economy of Black nationalism simply means that we must become involved in a program of re-education: to educate our people of the importance of knowing that when you spend your dollar out of the ...
Read More »“We Will Be Stronger Because Of Our Struggles”
By Selwyn Richards Contributing Columnist It is safe to say that we have entered the second stage of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the hospitality industry has been one of the hardest-hit segments. We continue to search for new, innovative and ...
Read More »“The US Presidential Election: Implications For India And The Indian Diaspora”
By Dr. Kumar Mahabir Guest Contributor The presidential election in the United States, this year, is historic in more ways than one. For the first time in history, the Indian-American vote is being openly sought. Indian-Americans number about one million, ...
Read More »The Day After The US Presidential Election
By Joaquín Roy Guest Contributor WASHINGTON, D.C. (Friday, October 30, 2020) (IPS) — For Europe, the region closest by culture and political tradition to the United States, the mood of the day after the presidential election may be very different ...
Read More »Being Civically Active
By Yvonne Sam Contributing Columnist Already Americans are at the polls, voters are casting their ballots early in record numbers this time, amid the current pandemic, in a last ditch effort to ensure that the incumbent becomes recumbent on November ...
Read More »Positive Actions Will Overcome The Coronavirus
By Ettie Rutherford Contributing Columnist Earlier this month, we celebrated Thanksgiving Day. It is customary for families, individuals and businesses to pro-actively make extensive plans to embrace the Thanksgiving Day week-end. Not so this year, because the coronavirus has taken ...
Read More »Oh Africa! Tools Of Colonialism: Standards
By Charles Mwewa Guest Writer It is amazing that the elephant is always in the room, when it comes to pinning the real African issues. So, we gloat over everything in snippets of fear to offend, but how then can ...
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