Politics and current affairs index
Articles are arranged chronologically, with most recent pieces first. Return to main subject index here.
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Caribbean and diaspora
Grandfather’s backpay, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide, by Hilary McD. Beckles), August 2015
Make it new, by Dylan Kerrigan (review of The Thought of New World: The Quest for Decolonisation, ed. Brian Meeks and Norman Girvan), March 2011
A region for itself, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Sovereignty of the Imagination: Conversations III, by George Lamming), September 2010
Head of the class, by Kelly Baker Josephs (review of You Don’t Play With Revolution: The Montreal Lectures of C.L.R. James, ed. David Austin), July 2010
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Guyana
Risker, risk, by Gaiutra Bahadur (review of The Sky’s Wild Noise: Selected Essays, by Rupert Roopnaraine), July 2015
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Haiti
Fear and trembling, by Jeremy Taylor (review of Shaken, Not Stirred: A Survivor’s Account of the January 12, 2010, Earthquake in Haiti, by Jeanne G. Pocius), November 2010
Fact and fury, by Gavin O’Toole (review of An Unbroken Agony: Haiti, from Revolution to the Kidnapping of a President, by Randall Robinson), November 2008
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Jamaica
Last one standing, by F.S.J. Ledgister (review of Edward Seaga and the Challenges of Modern Jamaica, by Patrick E. Bryan, and My Life and Leadership, by Edward Seaga), November 2010
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St Vincent and the Grenadines
Power of one, by Philip Nanton (review of Beyond the Islands: An Autobiography, by James Mitchell), August 2007
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Trinidad and Tobago
Under the gun, by Mark Lyndersay (review of Days of Wrath: The 1990 Coup in Trinidad and Tobago, by Raoul A. Pantin), May 2008
Doctor, doctor, by Judy Raymond (review of Eric Williams and the Making of the Modern Caribbean, by Colin A. Palmer), November 2007
Unfit to print, by Jeremy Taylor (review of Breaking the News: Media and Culture in Trinidad, by Raymond Ramcharitar), May 2005