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In the next couple of weeks millions of Americans from all over the global will be going to the polls on November 4th to elect a new president, between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. If Obama wins, would be the first black American President. But will Obama as the President of America be in the best interest of the Caribbean and the same can be said for John McCain.

Over on BBC Caribbean website, there is an on-going discussion forum on “US-Caribbean relations“, and how most of the Caribbean islands have excepted the US foreign policy under the Bush administration. More and more Caribbean migrants live in the United States that anywhere else in the world.

While relations between the US and the Caribbean have been good, there have nevertheless been policy differences on several issues, and the big questions by BCC Caribbean editors are:

Will get better with Obama?
Will there be gains with McCain?
Or will it be status quo no matter how it goes?

Share your thoughts in the comments.

Tagged with: America, Barack Obama, Democrat Barack Obama, John McCain, President of the United States, United States, US

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Photo via USMagazine.com - Isis, a transgender contestant on the new season of America’s Next Top Model.

In today’s world, the destructive sexually transmitted HIV/ AIDS pandemic haunts the very future of humanity and threatens the economic survival of numerous societies. As the world grapples with this phenomenally calamitous disease, many have taken up the mantle of preaching ‘safe sex’, ‘abstinence’ and ‘staying faithful to one partner’ in a so-called ‘morally loose’ world.

Countless International health organizations and donors are frantic with worry over the number of orphans, broken homes and broken lives that continue to result from the AIDS epidemic, particularly on the continent of Africa. And here in the Caribbean, statistics on the number of HIV victims living in our region are strikingly high. But despite all these dreadful facts, our world seems to be embracing bizarre sexual behaviour more and more…

I’m no ultra-conservative, but it often appears that our overly liberal mainstream media is promoting homosexuality and bisexuality as perfectly normal alternatives to heterosexuality. In the days of the Roman Empire, homosexuality was fashionable- and today history again seems to be repeating itself. The Californian gay community now has the widely celebrated legal right to ‘gay marriage’. What I want to know is why this is being viewed as an accomplishment.

I was very disturbed after reading a recent Newsweek article on the life of the late Larry King, a

15-year-old boy who was the victim of a gay-bias crime. Up till the day he died, Larry had allegedly never kissed a girl or boy, but he had declared himself gay. He was famous among peers for wearing stilettos and hitting on other boys. He was also exempted from the school’s dress code: he was allowed to wear makeup because of his right to self-expression, while girls were generally not allowed to do so.

If you look at documentaries on transgendered women and men, you may be led to believe that it’s a natural occurrence for a child to be born without The Creator having made a decision on his or her sex. In fact, the new season of America’s Next Top Model will feature Isis, a transgender wannabe model born male turned female. According to Isis, ‘my cards were dealt differently’.

I personally think the world has forgotten where to draw the line between respecting the differences of others and supporting and promoting bizarre sexual behaviour. Why is a rejection of absurd sexual orientation and behaviour viewed as a blow to human rights? Why should we support gay people who want to get married…can’t they just live together? Isn’t marriage supposed to be a sacred union between a man and woman?

I also wonder if animals can be gays or lesbians too- I’ve never seen any that are. Are human beings the only creatures with strange sexual behaviour- and if so, why? It would then seem as if homosexuality is not so normal, after all.

Yes, stigma is wrong. But I find it very alarming to know that we live in an era in which many children know what it means to be gay even before they know what sex is. To me, that just cannot be right.

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Tagged with: America, Gay community, Homosexuality, Human sexual behavior, Same-sex marriage, Sexual orientation

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British Airways today launched what it said is its largest ever ticket price sale, with discounts offered on over four million seats. The latest ‘World Offer’ from the airline runs until January 27 and covers 140 destinations as far flung as Delhi, Cape Town, the Caribbean and Australia.

Rival bmi launched its own sale last week and also cut prices with immediate effect on flights out of Manchester. The offer applies until January 15 and includes tickets to America and the Caribbean, including both Chicago and Barbados from £299.

Airlines have know choice but to cut Ticket prices due to the fact that they failing to fill their seats and partly partly to competition but also an increasing resistance among environmentally aware travelers to book unnecessary weekend breaks.

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