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21 March 2019: Emblazoned on the wall of Spain’s National Drama Centre is Boa Mistura’s painting of an Eduardo Galeano quote from The Open Veins of Latin America: “We are what we do to change what we are.” (Photograph by David Silverman/ Getty Images) Considered a literary giant of Latin America’s Left, Eduardo Galeano was a novelist and journalist who wrote extensively about oppression and resistance in Latin America. In 1973, after a coup in Uruguay, Galeano was imprisoned and later...

March 17, 2021 Former Barbados High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Reverend Guy Hewitt is questioning Government’s rationale for a number of recent diplomatic postings, given the global COVID-19 pandemic and the country’s present dire economic situation. Though complimenting the administration for establishing a long-overdue foreign mission on the African continent, he charged in an interview with Barbados TODAY that it was repeating the mistake of past administrations by not...

COVID-19 Recovery in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Partnership Strategy for the Biden Administration In-Depth Research & Reports by Jason Marczak and Cristina Guevara Foreword From Mexico City to Manaus, the COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In March 2020, families in Guayaquil searched for coffins to bury their loved ones. In April and May, Venezu...

It is no exaggeration to call the March issue of Everybody’s New York Caribbean magazine Kamala-powered — driven by articles celebrating and discussing Kamala Harris, the first U.S. vice president with Caribbean roots.

th annual Caribbean Fine Arts (CaFA) Fair, which starts March 10, is taking virtual format. Countries represented in the fair include Barbados, the Bahamas, Dominica, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [. . .] From March 10 to 24, the work of over 70 prolific visual artists from the Caribbean and the Diaspora will be on display in a virtual gallery at caribbean.global, for the first time ever. During the same period, seven emerging B...

Prescott pleads for professionalism Article by February 11, 2021 Anthony ‘Piano’ Prescott, one of Barbados’ finest ever strikers from the 1970s and 1980s, would like to see the standard of football in the island rise to a level where amateurs are turned into professionals. The 65-year-old who was once known for his jaw-dropping skills and movement while in possession of a football said a lot of improvement was still needed because Barbados is still not being competitiv...

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Qualifying possible Article by January 19, 2021 Senior national coach Alwyn Babb is not surprised that so far none of Barbados’ hopefuls has qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. But he also believes that it is not too late. “I am not surprised because the international and regional competitions since March (2020) have been closed down. Right at the beginning of the outdoor season which begins traditionally in March, I believe that countries were closed and limi...

by Bajan Reporter / December 16th, 2020 Champions League has a big turn up, as Manchester may have made the latest round, but it won’t be the Red Devils competing as their rivals City prepare to take on Borussia Monchengladbach, who are in the last 16 for the first time since 1978… According to Paris St-Germain forward Neymar, injured against Lyon this weekend, scored twice for Barcelona in the last two minutes of a dramatic comeback – for Barcelona. The Brazilian recently said he wan...