Caribbean Regional News
OECS Public dialogue on Proposed OECS Economic Union
The Plight of Windward Islands Bananas
By Dr. Edsel Edmunds - Former Director of Research and Development of The Banana Industry of the Windward Islands
I am distressed at the present plight of the banana industry of the Windward Islands after dedicating over two decades to its development. One has to accept the changes in world trade brought about by the influence of mega-blocks of nations and the rulings of world deliberative bodies representing for the most part the interests of the more developed countries. (Full article)
TAKING TOURISM TO THE AMERICAN CAPITAL
By Bevan Springer
NEW YORK (March 22, 2008) - This June's Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit (ACTS) in Washington DC from June 21 to 24 is not only the first such meeting, it also represents the new spirit of collaboration between the Caribbean's public and private sectors. (Full article)
Obama's Speech On Race In America
March, 2008 - "We the people, in order to form a more perfect union." Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, with these simple words, launched America's improbable experiment in democracy. Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution finally made real their declaration of independence at a Philadelphia convention that lasted through the spring of 1787. (Full article)
How not to be fat
By the Pan American Health Organisation
As Caribbean health experts fine-tune strategies for the imminent assault on chronic diseases, the spotlight has been turned on obesity (extreme overweight), the greatest underlying cause of sickness and death in the region. (Full article)
CARICOM LEADERS PLEASED WITH "CONFERENCE ON THE CARIBBEAN"
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Conference on the Caribbean wrapped up at the Organisation of American States (OAS) in Washington DC on Thursday 21 June with The Hon. Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis hailing the event as an “overwhelming success”. (Full article)
Tony Fraser attended the Washington Conference on the Caribbean
The enthusiasm of Caricom leaders for verbal commitments rather than hard agreements arrived at during their meetings in Washington with US President George Bush and his Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice must now be converted into substance if the view that this is a new beginning is to become reality. (Full article)
Conference on Caribbean in Washington, DC
TheDominican.net Newsdesk
Heads of State of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) are in Washington to hold discussions with the Bush Administration and participate in a major conference. The leaders are expected to meet face to face with the United States President on Wednesday. (Full article)
New whale sanctuary for the Caribbean
KINGSTON, Jamaica, June 13, 2007 - The Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP) is optimistic that endangered humpback whales in the Wider Caribbean will be better protected under a new agreement signed by the Dominican Republic's Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources and the United States' National Marine Sanctuary Program. (Read more)
Crime experts visit TT
Wednesday, May 23 2007 - TWO top Caribbean-born criminologists are currently in the country to share their expertise in areas of crime and criminal justice —maintaining low crime rates, and the sociology of punishment.
Over the past weeks the criminologists — Dominican-born Dr Peter St Jean and Jamaican-born Marilyn Jones — have met with members of the business community and as of yesterday they began meeting with members of the community and victims of crime. They leave on Friday for the United States. (Read more)
