Latin America and the Caribbean: The gap between rhetoric and reality
By David Jessop – May 21, 2016 Caribbean News Now

David Jessop
As each day passes, the internal situation in Venezuela deteriorates. Rumours of military coups and unstoppable violence swirl, street protests escalate; ordinary citizens suffer shortages of medicine, everyday foodstuffs, and almost everything else, while enduring rapidly escalating inflation.
It is a situation that has led some commentators to suggest that when taken with other developments in South America, leftist political thinking is being rejected by once sympathetic electorates.
The circumstances, however, are otherwise. Continue reading →
Caribbean: Historical Overview of The Portuguese In St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Madeira Island – From Whence the Portuguese Came.
Editor’s Note: from The Vincentian Publishing Company.
Friday 27th November, 2020 marked the 175th Anniversary of the arrival of the first the Madeiran Portuguese people in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
We are pleased to commemorate this milestone with extracts from a soon to be published booklet entitled, ‘An Historical Overview of the Portuguese in St. Vincent and the Grenadines & the Bellevue Roman Catholic Church’, authored by Rev. Mark De Silva, to whom we are grateful for allowing the use his work. Continue reading →
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