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Artist to teach theatre, spoken word in T&T

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Rex Nettleford dies in U.S hospital
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Professor Rex Nettleford

Professor Rex Nettleford

By RON FANFAIR

Eminent Caribbean scholar and cultural historian Rex Nettleford is dead.

The distinguished Jamaican professor and University of the West Indies (UWI) vice-chancellor emeritus passed away last Tuesday night in a Washington hospital six days after suffering a massive heart attack while in the American capital for a UWI fund-raising gala. He was taken off life support after failing to come out of a coma.

Renowned for his intellectual brilliance, oratorical skills and artistic creativity, Nettleford would have celebrated his 77th birthday yesterday.

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Ovid Jackson named to Order of Ontario
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010


Ovid Jackson

Ovid Jackson

By RON FANFAIR

Working behind the scene for nearly three decades in public office, Ovid Jackson was thrust into the limelight last week when he was presented with the province's highest award - the Order of Ontario - at Queen's Park.

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Caribbean unity urged to stop IMF
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

David Commissiong

David Commissiong

By RON FANFAIR

Like voracious vultures circling helpless prey, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the forces it represents are preparing to impose a severe austerity program on the Caribbean, many of whose citizens are already submerged in poverty, warns Pan Africanist, lawyer and Barbadian politician, David Commissiong.

To make matters worse, he said, Caribbean leaders have displayed an unwillingness to want to work together to form a political and economic union to attempt to alleviate the crisis.

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