“There is no doubt that we’re changing the planet in ways that are already causing people great suffering…”
~ Gaia Vince is a journalist, broadcaster and author specializing in science, the environment and social sciences.
The keys on the piano may be black and white but sometimes they seem to be miles apart.
Sidney Poitier
Michael Caine has asked Black actors to be patient. If there were an Oscar for patience Black actors would have won it many times. Remember Hattie McDaniel? She was the first Black person to win an Academy Award. Hattie won it in 1939 for best Supporting Actress in the movie ‘Gone with the Wind’ in which she played the role of Mammy.
On the night of the ceremony Hattie had to sit in a segregated area reserved for Blacks.
In her acceptance speech Hattie recognized the import of the moment and hoped that she was a ‘credit to her race.’ One of her greatest desires was to be buried in the Hollywood cemetery among he ‘showbiz types’ but even in death she found segregation.
The cemetery was for whites only. Hattie died in 1952, two years before Brown v the Board of Education. Continue reading →
Sammy to lead number one-ranked West Indies at ICC World T20
Published on January 30, 2016 – Caribbean News Now
Darren Sammy in 2012
ST JOHN’S, Antigua — Darren Sammy will lead a strong West Indies team to this year’s International Cricket Council’s World T20 Tournament in India.
The 32-year-old allrounder was named to captain as the West Indies Cricket Board announced the 15 players on Friday 29 January 2016.
The squad includes 11 members of the championship-winning team from 2012. On that occasion West Indies beat Sri Lanka at the R Premadasa Stadium to win the title, with Sammy at the helm. Continue reading →
Saturday, 23rd January 2016 – Written by Ralph Ramkarran
Ralph Ramkarran
It is only after the magnitude of the potential disaster became apparent to the public that the Government began to scramble for a plan to protect workers of Wales Estate and farmers who supply cane. The closure of Wales Sugar Estate would impoverish the 1,700 workers and their families, cane farmers and their families and all others who are sustained by the existence of Wales Estate. The Government’s plan, announced in bits and pieces and later advertised in the media, is likely to fizzle as rapidly as it was hastily concocted. Offering some workers jobs at Uitvlugt and the vague notion of a waterway to transport farmers’ canes are not enough. Continue reading →
