Trinidad and Tobago
The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
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...
School children from Zimbabwe, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago are among the winners of the European Commission's (EC) International Drawing Competition on Gender Equality, announced on 29 June.
Each winner will be given €1,000 to spend on computers, books or pay for school, library fees or other educational materials. The winning drawings were...
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....
Universal Healthcare Insurance (UHI) or health insurance, financed by the state, employers and possibly by private individuals, was long regarded as unattainable in developing countries. Unlike pensions, industrial accident insurance or free public schooling, this was not part of the colonial legacy bequeathed to the newly independent African or Caribbean states in the 1960s and 70s....
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...
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...
Just 23 miles separate Tobago from Trinidad to the south west, yet in appearance and character there’s minimal resemblance to its big sister on the horizon. It has its own House of Assembly, albeit with limited powers.
Chattering coconut trees, hidden sandy coves, sleepy fishing villages such as Charlotteville, and translucent coral reefs have drawn tourists to Tobago although hotel...
The digital revolution has caught up fast in the world of African creativity! Over the last ten years, the increase in African Internet users has been 16 times greater than that of North American users. Alongside this, a growing number of African organisations and cultural operators are creating and participating in websites and social networks, offering an ever-increasing range of resources to...
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...
School children from Zimbabwe, Eritrea, the Central African Republic, Mauritius and Trinidad and Tobago are among the winners of the European Commission's (EC) International Drawing Competition on Gender Equality, announced on 29 June.
Each winner will be given €1,000 to spend on computers, books or pay for school, library fees or other educational materials. The winning drawings were...
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....
Universal Healthcare Insurance (UHI) or health insurance, financed by the state, employers and possibly by private individuals, was long regarded as unattainable in developing countries. Unlike pensions, industrial accident insurance or free public schooling, this was not part of the colonial legacy bequeathed to the newly independent African or Caribbean states in the 1960s and 70s....
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...
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...
Just 23 miles separate Tobago from Trinidad to the south west, yet in appearance and character there’s minimal resemblance to its big sister on the horizon. It has its own House of Assembly, albeit with limited powers.
Chattering coconut trees, hidden sandy coves, sleepy fishing villages such as Charlotteville, and translucent coral reefs have drawn tourists to Tobago although hotel...
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