Kroll, the world’s leading risk consulting company, announced today that the company has hired John Price, Jan Smith, Thomas Rideg and Guillaume Corpart to launch a new market intelligence business line serving Latin America. Messrs. Price, Smith, Rideg and Corpart join Kroll along with other key personnel from InfoAmericas, Inc., Latin America’s leading provider of market intelligence solutions.

Noted Grenadian economist Davidson Budhoo who resigned from the world bank in 1988 wrote several books exposing the unprincipled policies and prescriptions of the World Bank in regard to the Caribbean.

A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group said at the Empire Club's 14th annual investment outlook in Toronto on Thursday.  "It's not a matter of if, but when," he warned investors. "It's going to hit this year hard."

Barnacle, was looking at similarities; an election year in Barbados, Grenada, Belize and the Big U.S.

Basically same election problems: how to stop recession in America, how to handle skyrocketing consumer prices in the Caribbean; in Barbados, Grenada, the US, no real ideological differences between contending parties.