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Friday 25 March 2016.  By Sir Ronald Sanders.   US President Barack Obama about to sample a Havana cigar in Cuba. My commentary this week is an expanded version of a response I gave to a Jamaican journalist who asked me: what are the implications for Jamaica and the wider Caribbean of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba and the opening-up of the Cuban market?   President Obama did the right thing by beginning the end of a failed US policy of trying to isolate Cuba.  The failed policy is not yet ended.  It should be recalled that the trade embargo against Cuba is still on the statute books of the US and it can only be changed by Congress.   While in Cuba on 21 and 22 March, Obama himself admitted that “the bulk of changes that have to be made with respect to the embargo are now going to rely on Congress”.   By executive action, Obama has gone almost to the limits of what he can do.  As he explained: “The list of things that...

US Training Mujahideen Terroists in Nevada Posted by Wade Bailey:on 7 November, 2012in There are few things that are inarguably true. One is that Iran’s nuclear program is the single biggest danger to peace in the Middle East. After all, Iran is a rogue state. They’ve been training anti-government terrorists. Oh, wait, that was the U.S. The United States government listed the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as a terrorist group in 1997 but then gave them training so they could overthrow the government in Iran. In a 2008 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Seymour Hersh said, “We’re funding a group that is on the U.S. terrorist list to work against the Iranian government. They’ve been on the border for years. The enemy of my enemy is my friend (even if they’re on our terrorist watch list). This group has had covert training in America (in Nevada).” Ok, this might be a little confusing because the US justifies bombing Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan because of the terrorist training ca...

Most horrific act of terrorism in Caribbean The 35th anniversary of Cubana bombing tragedy off Barbados By Rickey Singh Story Created: Oct 2, 2011 at 1:49 AM ECT Story Updated: Oct 2, 2011 at 1:49 AM ECT THURSDAY will mark the 35th anniversary of the horrific bombing of a Cubana passenger aircraft off Barbados that killed all 73 people on board in what has been documented as the single worst human tragedy in the history of the Caribbean region to result from international terrorism linked to anti-Cuba operatives trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The government of Cuba and its embassies in Barbados and Guyana will have varying activities to commemorate the victims of that unprecedented crime in Caribbean air space in which the collaborators involved those who had boarded the Cubana flight at Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and Tobago. With the explosive materials well concealed on board the Cubana a...