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It was a curious thing to see Jamaicans hailing Barack Obama on Thursday more like a returning “son of the soil” than a visiting president of the United States. Even more curious was seeing CARICOM leaders jostle like UWI students for a photo op. But don’t get me started on the way Jamaican Prime Minister… Read more.
And One Direction…? WTF! Read more.
Book review: The iPINIONS Journal – Commentaries on the Global Events of 2014 by Anthony L. Hall Not content to remind us each year in the Spring of the sometimes distressingly swift passage of time, we now have to figure out where an entire decade went to with the publication of Caribbean News Now op-ed… Read more.
The jury returned its verdict this afternoon: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 21-year-old who admitted he and his brother bombed the 2013 Boston Marathon, has been found guilty on all 30 counts against him, including conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and bombing of a public place. The jury of five men and seven women… Read more.
Instead of commanding network coverage in primetime like the men’s championship, the women’s was relegated to cable last night, which guaranteed only a fraction of the viewership. TV executives wonder why they can’t get better ratings for the fledgling women’s professional league – the WNBA. Well, it might have something to do with the way… Read more.
In what was, frankly, a relatively lackluster game, Duke defeated Wisconsin 68-63 to win this year’s NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament. With this national championship, their fifth since 1991, the Duke Blue Devils have officially become to NCAA Basketball what the New York Yankees are to MLB Baseball: the team we love to hate.… Read more.
Not since the perimeter shooters of North Carolina State upset the Phi Slama Jamas of Houston in 1983 has the NCAA Men’s Division 1 Basketball Tournament seen the kind of upset that played out last night. The Badgers stunned the Wildcats (and everyone else) by defeating them 71-64 in their Final Four matchup. Thus ending… Read more.
I cannot overstate the following truism about Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, which would be farcical if it were not so dangerous: Netanyahu will never miss an opportunity to undermine peace with Israel’s enemies — even if that means making enemies of Israel’s friends. (“Israeli PM Accepts Mischief-Making Invitation to Address Congress,” The iPINIONS Journal,… Read more.
Organizers hype the annual NCAA Division 1 Men’s Basketball Tournament as “March Madness” to exploit the suspense inherent in people watching to see if low-seeded (aka Cinderella) teams upset top-seeded ones – ideally with buzzer-beating three pointers. Well, so much for the hype. After all, three of the four teams that made it through to… Read more.
No doubt you too have become nauseated by ad-nauseam reports on the co-pilot who deliberately crashed that Germanwings plane in the Alps eight days ago. After all, the “breaking news” reporters are still trumpeting, every hour on the hour, amounts to little more than rehashing old news about the crash or propagating new tidbits about… Read more.
