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A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
Abundant investment opportunities in Grenada, in the Eastern Caribbean, were the focus of an investment seminar held in Brussels in December 2010.
The hurricanes of 2004-2005 destroyed one of the country’s economic mainstays, nutmeg, leading to a branching out of the economy, explained the nation’s Ambassador in Brussels, Stephen Fletcher.
Hurricane Ivan ravaged the country a...
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Surge to promote renewable energy in Eastern Caribbean
The small island states of the Eastern Caribbean are seeking to increase the use of renewable energies such as geothermal energy and wind power to boost the economy and tackle climate change.
Ministers and representatives from the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St.Lucia, St.Kitts and...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
The poorest and most vulnerable developing countries came to Copenhagen knowing they had the least to offer and the most at stake. They came away with little.
“We fought for everything we came out with and as you can see we didn’t come out with much”, Dessima Williams, representing Grenada and the Alliance Of Small Island States (AOSIS), told 192 nations in the early...
EU funds for 13 ACPs to cushion the impact of the economic crisis
Eleven African and two Caribbean countries are the initial beneficiaries of €215M from the EU’s Vulnerability-FLEX (V-FLEX) finance mechanism for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations, it was announced in December 2009. They are: Benin, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea...
While being grateful for the tribute his country has paid to him, renowned artist Oliver Benoit notes with some bitterness: “In my country, people consider I am not doing Caribbean art”. This is because his work is abstract.
Yet who is closer to the concerns of the ordinary people of Grenada than Benoit? Everything seen, made out and interpreted in his work, beneath the surface...
A five-year EU-funded programme is helping to prevent blindness in some of the poorer countries of the Caribbean region; Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica and St. Lucia. It is being coordinated by the United Kingdom based Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Sightsavers International, with its partners in the Caribbean.
The multi-faceted project is funding a range of measures from the training of...
Brussels was the location picked for the annual summit of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO), 13-15 March. The intention was to draw attention of the EU to the “critically important role of tourism in the region to livelihood and poverty alleviation,” said Hugh Riley Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados-based CTO which represents 33 member countries and many private sector...
Most visitors to the Caribbean are shocked that it costs just as much to travel by air between the tropical islands as it would to North America. Is there any choice?
More than ever before Caribbean nationals have been calling for improved connections between the islands, reduced taxes on travel and an informed policy on regional travel from Governments of the CARICOM[i] trading bloc....
Abundant investment opportunities in Grenada, in the Eastern Caribbean, were the focus of an investment seminar held in Brussels in December 2010.
The hurricanes of 2004-2005 destroyed one of the country’s economic mainstays, nutmeg, leading to a branching out of the economy, explained the nation’s Ambassador in Brussels, Stephen Fletcher.
Hurricane Ivan ravaged the country a...
The Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the 15 member states of the Caribbean Forum for African, Caribbean and Pacific states (CARIFORUM) is to date the only ‘full’ EPA signed with the European Union (EU). This is the reason why other ACP regions are examining its bottlenecks and benefits two years after coming on stream.
Branford Isaacs, Head of the Guyana-based...
Surge to promote renewable energy in Eastern Caribbean
The small island states of the Eastern Caribbean are seeking to increase the use of renewable energies such as geothermal energy and wind power to boost the economy and tackle climate change.
Ministers and representatives from the Eastern Caribbean (Antigua, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, St.Lucia, St.Kitts and...
Caribbean’s private sector gets a boost
Some leading International Financial Institutions have come together to set up a $US850M (€696M) action plan to boost private sector investment across the Caribbean region. The European Investment Bank (EIB), the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), the Netherlands Development Finance Company (FMO), the International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
The poorest and most vulnerable developing countries came to Copenhagen knowing they had the least to offer and the most at stake. They came away with little.
“We fought for everything we came out with and as you can see we didn’t come out with much”, Dessima Williams, representing Grenada and the Alliance Of Small Island States (AOSIS), told 192 nations in the early...
EU funds for 13 ACPs to cushion the impact of the economic crisis
Eleven African and two Caribbean countries are the initial beneficiaries of €215M from the EU’s Vulnerability-FLEX (V-FLEX) finance mechanism for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) nations, it was announced in December 2009. They are: Benin, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Ghana, Grenada, Guinea...
While being grateful for the tribute his country has paid to him, renowned artist Oliver Benoit notes with some bitterness: “In my country, people consider I am not doing Caribbean art”. This is because his work is abstract.
Yet who is closer to the concerns of the ordinary people of Grenada than Benoit? Everything seen, made out and interpreted in his work, beneath the surface...
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