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The way ahead for us after covid19
Sunday 2 May 2021
An aerial view of Morvant Junction where roadworks are underway. The private sector must be integrated in government plans for the future of the economy. Photo by Jeff K. Mayers
The matter of how our region navigates the immediate future is not a small one. I am sure it keeps certain people awake at night just contemplating how we suddenly went from orange alert for the short and medium term to instant red alert for the foreseeable future.
I have absolutely no responsibility regarding how we position ourselves, except as an individual, to deal with the enormous challenges, and yet even I occasionally find myself sitting bolt upright in bed during the wee hours of the morning feeling a sense of dread.
The end of an era in Cuba
Marina Salandy-Brown -
Last week, in the midst of our escalating covid19 infections, the affecting hearing of the George Floyd case and the troubled anticipation of the jury’s decision, a big event took place in the northern Caribbean without attracting too much attention.
The stepping down of Raul Castro from the leadership of the Communist Party of Cuba marked the end of a phase of one of the most written about, celebrated, vilified, and dangerous eras of post colonial Caribbean history – the Cuban Revolution. Raul would never have guessed that at the age of nearly 90 he would be handing over supreme command of the famous or infamous Cuban Revolution that has endured despite almost insurmountable odds. He could only have hoped, when fighting alongside his brother Fidel, Che Guevara and a small outfit of idealistic young men and women in the 26th of July Movement, that they would defeat Batista’s notorious military regime, and he would never have