Red, white, black and a George Street ghost
Mark WilsonSunday, January 20, 2013The pressure is on for a quick fix. Politicians and police take their licks. Many Belizeans blame an elite police unit for the latest mass killing.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Bahamas set for Monday’s gambling vote
Mark WilsonSunday, January 27, 2013Inside Atlantis casino: No Bahamians allowed.It’s October 4, 2006. Patrick Manning’s three-hour budget speech promises a ban on slot machines “with immediate effect.”...
View ArticleCorruption: Going to Jamaicans for advice?
Mark WilsonSunday, February 3, 2013Green papers, white papers, draft bills and committees: for ten years and more, T&T has deliberated public procurement. Scandals and allegations make for a lively...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Keep clear of Caracas...Go Panama
Mark WilsonSaturday, February 9, 2013Carnival maxing out your card this year? Or is your cashpoint balance fine for your dollar and wine?
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ex-premier flies free as a bird in Rio
Mark WilsonSunday, February 17, 2013Michael Misick, former premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands with his ex-wife LisaRaye McCoy-Misick.It’s Carnival Friday in Rio, you’re free as a bird. Nice?
View ArticleClik here to view.
Jamaica faces a bitter Lenten fast
Mark WilsonSunday, February 24, 2013Horace DalleyIn Jamaica, Ash Wednesday is a public holiday—a day for repentance and good works. But with no Carnival beforehand.
View ArticleCan Mia press Bajan reset button?
Mark WilsonSunday, March 3, 2013Four close races in just over a week—can this be sleepy Barbados? On February 21, Freundel Stuart’s Democratic Labour Party (DLP) squeezed home with a 16-14 election win.
View ArticleUS$10k: The price of a Guyanese life
Mark WilsonSunday, March 10, 2013A Commission of Enquiry on February 28 proposed two to three million dollars as a
View ArticleBullets and body bags: It’s a Caribbean problem
Mark WilsonSunday, March 17, 2013A severed head on a bar table. Two cousins bound with barbed wire, bodies burnt in a car trunk. It has been a bad year. The daily body-count is on track so far to match...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Want to hit the World News? Get shot in Barbados
Mark WilsonSunday, March 24, 2013Most visits to the Caribbean are trouble-free. Barbados does feel safe. But worries are not entirely irrational. Last Sunday, two British cruise ship passengers, Philip...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Failed drug war? Make it legal says Guatemala’s president
Mark WilsonSunday, March 31, 2013Guatemala President Otto Pérez Molina“The struggle against drugs, in the way it has been conducted, has failed.
View ArticleClik here to view.
J$100 for US$1? Jamaicans under pressure
Mark WilsonSunday, April 7, 2013Hotels can prosper when the J$ is weak. What about their staff?The rate ticks away: J$96, J$97, J$98, J$99 to one.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Rick, Ronnie, Romeo- Suriname’s Presi after Desi?
Mark WilsonSunday, April 14, 2013Rick Ross, left, and Ronnie BrunswijkFlorida-born rap artist Rick Ross packed maybe 10,000 fans into the Andre Kamperveen stadium in Paramaribo last Saturday.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Snap poll coming? - ‘Mischief, bitterness’ in Guyana
Mark WilsonSunday, April 21, 2013Bheri Ramsaran looks devastated. Photo: Neilon A DiasGuyana’s Health Minister Dr Bheri Ramsaran buried his head in his hands in the National Assembly last Wednesday,...
View Article‘Dem call it scam, me call it a reparation’
Mark WilsonSunday, April 28, 2013Kim Nichols from Maine last month told the US Senate’s special committee on ageing of her father’s mystery phone call from Jamaica.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Guyana’s hydro: Will the cash flow?
Mark WilsonSunday, May 5, 2013Guyana’s Kaieteur Falls. Looking like a billion dollars?At the Kaieteur Falls in Guyana’s interior, the mighty Potaro river plunges almost 750 feet—four times the height...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Curaçao’s big man shot dead
Mark WilsonSunday, May 12, 2013Helmin Wiel, right, and Gerrit Schotte in happier times.Around five o’clock last Sunday afternoon, Helmin Wiels bought fish on Marie Pampoen beach in Curaçao. Before he...
View ArticleNoh Mul no more
Mark WilsonSunday, May 19, 2013In just two days this month, a construction company destroyed a Maya temple, part of the ancient city of Noh Mul, near the Mexican border in northern Belize.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Four ways to shake up drug policy
Mark WilsonSunday, May 26, 2013Marijuana plants are burned during an anti-drug operation in Guatemala.Time for a drug policy shake-up? Maybe.
View ArticleTime to lay Tivoli’s ghosts
Mark WilsonSunday, June 2, 2013Three years already? On 24 May 2010, the day of Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s election victory, Jamaican troops and army rampaged into Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston.
View Article
