Jamaica
The Couleur Café music festival in Brussels, 24-26 June 2011 had a big party feel. Eighty thousand people went through the gates at the Tour and Taxis venue and were treated to headliners: Seal, Ziggy Marley and Ivorian, Tiken Jah Foley, as well as up and coming artists like Belgian Ghanaian afrobeat singer, Gloria Boateng.
When first launched in...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
Sir Shridath Ramphal is one of the architects of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. From 1975-1990, he was Secretary General of the Commonwealth. He continues to work on environmental, governmental and other developmental challenges and is a fervent advocate of Caribbean integration.
Considered to be the Caribbean’s leading former statesperson, his career extends across...
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....
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...
In Africa, cloth is not simply a way of covering the body. It also a means of communicating cultural belonging and defining social status. It is like a history lesson made plastic, walking around in towns and villages. This is the concept that Ann Gollifer, a British artist living permanently in Botswana, explores in her work, particularly in her ‘Urban Camouflage’ project....
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A European Commission-funded project studying the dynamics of migration and town planning, implemented by UN-HABITAT, is underway in about thirty ACP countries. It is examining the planning characteristics of cities in which shanty towns have developed and is setting up action plans for improvements in their inhabitants’ living conditions. One of the first conclusions to be drawn is...
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The Couleur Café music festival in Brussels, 24-26 June 2011 had a big party feel. Eighty thousand people went through the gates at the Tour and Taxis venue and were treated to headliners: Seal, Ziggy Marley and Ivorian, Tiken Jah Foley, as well as up and coming artists like Belgian Ghanaian afrobeat singer, Gloria Boateng.
When first launched in...
Three Caribbean countries: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Cuba have embassies in Abuja and a consular representative in Lagos. For Robert Miller, High Commissioner of Jamaica, "Nigeria offers tremendous opportunities for cooperation with Jamaica. We are trying, for instance, to attract Nigerian investors to Jamaica and promote the export of our packaged food products to Nigeria as well...
Sir Shridath Ramphal is one of the architects of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group. From 1975-1990, he was Secretary General of the Commonwealth. He continues to work on environmental, governmental and other developmental challenges and is a fervent advocate of Caribbean integration.
Considered to be the Caribbean’s leading former statesperson, his career extends across...
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....
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...
In Africa, cloth is not simply a way of covering the body. It also a means of communicating cultural belonging and defining social status. It is like a history lesson made plastic, walking around in towns and villages. This is the concept that Ann Gollifer, a British artist living permanently in Botswana, explores in her work, particularly in her ‘Urban Camouflage’ project....
Three years after its launch, the initiative on a Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) between the European Union and poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change is on track.
The GCCA intends to step up cooperation and dialogue between the EU and the developing countries that are hit earliest and hardest by climate change and have the least capacity to react. These are...
A European Commission-funded project studying the dynamics of migration and town planning, implemented by UN-HABITAT, is underway in about thirty ACP countries. It is examining the planning characteristics of cities in which shanty towns have developed and is setting up action plans for improvements in their inhabitants’ living conditions. One of the first conclusions to be drawn is...
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