Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from April, 2015
Guyana's Health Minister Assails Women's Activist, Says He Would ‘Slap Her Ass’
The Minister of Health's tirade against a women's rights activist raises questions about gender equality, human rights and the political status quo in Guyana.
President Obama's Visit to Jamaica Wasn't All ‘Irie’
Some Jamaicans weren't so keen to see authorities falling over themselves to make Jamaica Obama-ready.
Bloggers Get Bad Rap in Trinidad & Tobago as Paid Political Trolls Do Online Damage
As political groups allegedly pay internet trolls to spew racial slurs and cyber-bully, netizens express their disgust over the depths to which politics in Trinidad and Tobago have plunged.