Canal nudity
"Sorry, my attention is distracted," I wrote, "there is a stark naked person on the bench in front of the house." Oh, well, I thought, no fuss! It's the way, it is. This is Amsterdam! After only a few minutes, the More...
Predestination and eternal life
Martin Luther (1483-1546), an Augustinian monk of Erfurt, posted 95 statements of criticism of the Catholic Church on a Chapel door in Wittenberg., on 31 October 1517. Protestantism was born. The trigger incident More...
Migration from the Caribbean and South America
“At the time of independence, in 1975, Dutch subjects living in the colony of Suriname were given the choice of Dutch or Surinamese citizenship. Amazingly, 220,000 out of a population of 450,000 left Suriname More...
Cooperation needed
Today’s news that the Central Bank of Curaçao and St. Maarten (CBCS) amended the annual percentage rate (APR) is quite interesting. It regards all costs charged for credit. The move is intended to protect consumers More...
Negritude is dead
Negritude or pan-Africanism do not show up in the Afro-American and Afro-Caribbean political debate. Edward Blyden (1832-1912) of St. Thomas made it his life's achievement to repatriate Africans to Africa. He became More...
The two oldest professions
Everyone knows what the world’s oldest profession is. Note that politics is a close second. It’s remarkable that the two jobs are so similar. By Janchi Beaujon, USA More...
Politics
While electorates around the world get ready for ballot boxes, politicians like traders in smoky tavern rooms at farmers’ markets, eager to strike secret deals. “The room where it Happened. No one really knows How The More...
Independence dreams
National liberation and socialist change under “working class leadership” was a dream of many islanders but in fact created the biggest problem for Caribbean Island States. Working class leadership’s inability More...
Always bite off more than you can chew
Not always the people who start out the smartest end up the smartest. Contrary to general belief, intelligence is not an immutable given, determined by nature or nurture, genes or environment. You can always substantially More...
POTUS and Pinocchio
Geppetto, an Italian woodcarver, and clockmaker created the marionette Pinocchio and gave the world the archetype of truth. But “graven images” can be very dangerous. Try to figure it out. Pinocchio would More...
