Tuesday, October 10, 2006

A brief pause

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In the span of a few days, we have seen the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya , the successful explosion of a small nuclear d...
Monday, October 09, 2006

Free speech and its perils

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Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian journalist with Novaya Gazeta who had probably done more than any other single person to expose the horror o...
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Friday, October 06, 2006

Death Penalty: Jamaicans Debate Re-introduction

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My new article for the Inter-Press Service on the debate currently raging in Jamaica about the possible resumption of the death penalty ther...

London Calling

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This has nothing (and everything) to do with politics, but procrastinating over a new story, I just stumbled across one of the best things I...
Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Jamaicans hope to separate crime, politics

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My article on Jamaica's upcoming electoral season, drawn from my visit to the island last month, was published in today's Washington...
Monday, October 02, 2006

On September 30th

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Two years ago yesterday, as I sat in my apartment in Rio de Janeiro working on my first book, a young man that I knew from the Port-au-Princ...
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Murder in Fontamara

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At least eight have been killed and many wounded in attacks by gangs against residents in the southern Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Fontam...

Brasil stays in foreign investors’ good books

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The Financial Times' Foreign Direct Investment (fDi) magzine this week published a piece I wrote on the rosy Brazilian economy, submitt...
Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Hauling HIV/AIDS Out of the Closet

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Of some of the most important insights I was able to gain during this trip to Jamaica, I think one of them was that the struggle against HIV...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Grieving Father Takes on Police Impunity

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My new article addressing the problem of police brutality in Jamaica and the steps being taken to address it can be found here .
Sunday, September 24, 2006

A trip to Alligator Pond

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My friend Jan Voordouw of the Panos Institute of the Caribbean and I took a break from journalistic endeavours to travel through Jamaica...

Recruiting Soldiers

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I'm recruiting soldiers For Jah army Recruiting soldiers Jah time is now Satan forces They all rise up to fight They all rise up to figh...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

On the passing of Joseph Hill

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I suppose it is appropriate that I am in Jamaica as I first learn of the stilling of one of the greatest voices that reggae ever produced, t...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Bipartisan opportunism and Haiti?

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Just arrived in reggaeland under the cover of darkness last night, flying through a crimson sunset that turned, all of a sudden to night. I ...
Monday, September 18, 2006

Stuyvesant Town and the life of the American wallet

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The New York Times had a highly interesting Op-Ed today on the way insurance giant Metropolitan Life's sale of Stuyvesant Town and Peter...
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Le Prix du Sang

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On Tuesday, Véronique Valmé, who decided to return to Haiti from abroad two years ago, was laid to rest at the Eglise St-Pierre in Petionvil...
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Commission Episcopale Nationale Justice et Paix report

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Amidst all the furor over the highly-questionable Lancet article on the human rights situation in Haiti (composed by a researcher stating th...
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Human rights, not politics, should be priority for Haiti

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The Haitian information resource AlterPresse has published my latest Op-Ed on the situation in that Caribbean country. You can read it here ...
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Sunday, September 10, 2006

Journalists line up for the Bush gravy train

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In testimony to the fact that supporters of Haiti's disgraced former president are not the only ones greedy or stupid enough to accept m...
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Human rights or political gamesmanship?

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A recent article , "'Human rights abuse and other criminal violations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti: a random survey of households,...