The first thing that strikes even the most casual visitor (to Antigua) who has any awareness, is the huge disparity between the nouveau riches with their ostentatious and garish houses, surrounded by security measures, and the shacks (often colourfully decorated) of the poor, much like beach huts in the United […]
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Tools of salvation: instruments of surveillance
Computer surveillance may hold the key to halting the spread of Coronavirus. For example, despite our own government’s abject failure, track-and-trace has been successful in many countries. Steve Latham However, following the law of unintended consequences, the use of technology to defeat Covid also demonstrates how the pandemic […]
Neoliberal fallacies wiped out by the pandemic
Many paradigms have collapsed in the midst of this global crisis that, if it carries on too long, will end other schemes pre-designed to make us believe that we live in a glass bubble, which is now beginning to fall apart. Yadira Cruz Valera If anything impacted the […]
Migrants dead or missing: no faces or figures
Little is known about the identities of the 30,510 deceased migrants recorded by the Missing Migrants Project in the last five years. It is only known that almost 1,600 were children, 1,700 women and about 5,000 men. It is assumed that they left their homes and families seeking to improve […]
Educating Karamoja
In northern Uganda, volunteers from a London-based charity fighting poverty are bringing parents, teachers, students, and community leaders together, in projects that have drastically improved education here. Deborah Torr Photos by Peter Caton Some say it takes a village to raise a child. This is certainly true in […]















