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Why Tourism is no longer sustainable as the economic engine of the Caribbean.

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Image: At left the CIA logo, George Bush was once the CIA director, it should be no surprise that during his tenure as “President” of the US that crack cocaine saw its debut on the streets of inner-city communities in the US, he is the original OG, of crack dealing.     U.S. President George H. Bush holds a bag of crack cocaine as he poses for photographers in the Oval Office of the White House, Sept. 6, 1989 in Washington after delivering his first nationally televised speech. Bush outlined his $7.9 billion plan for the war on drugs. “The station chiefs ran things in Southeast Asia,” Taylor stressed, adding that the first secretary at the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok had a private airline for smuggling drugs to Saigon, as the CIA was well aware. “I tried to catch him, but there was no assistance. In fact, the CIA actively supported the Thai Border Police, who were involved in trafficking.” Taylor shrugged. “The CIA would do any...

AMERICAN URBAN POPULAR CULTURE AND ITS NURTURANCE AND SHAPING OF GANG-CULTURE IN THE CARIBBEAN: CRIMINAL GANGS SUCCESSFULLY CHALLENGING THE STATE APPARATUS REGIONALLY THE COLLECTIVE CLASS AS AN ANTI-DOTE TO THE PRESENT NEO-COLONIAL STATUS.

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™ Flag of Independence. © Owner of copyrights Wade A Bailey: An example of an independence flag for the “ New Soualiga ” Sint Martin. Only full-fledged independence, led by an educated cadre of Pan-Caribbean Pan Sint Martin nationalists can lead this island and the region out of our present economic, social, cultural morass and beyond the 21 st century. I wrote following in 2000 while I studied at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen where I did scientific research, studied Psychology, Child Pedagogy and Social Case Work. Let it be known here without any hesitation or shame that Iam, one of the stereotyped African Caribbean males who was an active participant in the “street sub-culture”. I am also one who in spite of my environment overcame social and racial barriers, to attain gainful employment after my studies on Sint Martin. I write from experience and I live in the communities that I write about the people that I write about in some instances a...