Janine Mendes-Franco · October, 2013

Latest posts by Janine Mendes-Franco from October, 2013

Hungry in Haiti

  10 October 2013

Why – when the country has received at least one billion U.S. dollars worth of food aid between 1995 and the 2010 earthquake – is hunger on the rise? Haiti Grassroots Watch examines “complaints and rumors about the misuse, abuse, or negative effects of food aid.”

Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada: “The Killing of a Revolution”

  4 October 2013

I was transfixed; in turns horrified, unbelieving, angry, and sad. Worse still, frustrated. Because the verdict of the film as to who was really responsible was inconclusive. Norman Girvan reviews Bruce's Paddington's film “Forward Ever”, about the executions of former Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and members of his cabinet.