Community Faces and Voices
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COMMENTARY: The cost of disaster relief
The overwhelming loss of life and destruction wrought on the Caribbean island of Dominica by Tropical Storm Erika is utterly heart wrenching and would I like to convey my sincere condolences to the people of Dominica. Many years of reconstruction lie ahead at a towering cost and likewise the opportunity to reconsider the development model, infrastructure investment, community risk assessments…
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Caribbean broadcasting icons inducted into Hall of Fame
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tuesday August 18, 2015 – Two Caribbean broadcasting icons were yesterday inducted into the Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) Hall of Fame. Tributes were paid to the late Guyanese broadcaster Terry Holder and Montserratian Rose Willock at a function held at Grenada’s National Stadium. The late Terry Holder Holder, who died in 2014, was instrumental to the birth…
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CDN Special Feature: THE SARGASSUM PHENOMENON IN THE CARIBBEAN
A SPECIAL (CDN) FEATURE BY: RICARDO BLACKMAN (CDN) BARBADOS. A strange phenomenon occurred in the Caribbean in 2011. A massive tide of Sargassum, brown invasive algae, washed on to the shores of the region’s popular beaches. A similar event is occurring today causing tourism officials across the Caribbean to become concerned about the masses of smelly brown seaweed that are…
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CARICOM/Spain Reducing Youth on Youth Violence Project strengthens community partnership
Informed minds; proud faces and without doubt hearts too; all 104 of them between the ages of 5 to 18 years with their thirty-four parents of mostly mothers, indeed no less proud, no less informed. It was the occasion of the graduation ceremony of the Law Enforcement Assistive Programme for Schools (LEAPS), a project of the Cunupia Community Champions for…
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Caribbean Artists Raise Their Voices for Climate Justice
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Aug 10 2015 (IPS) – Award-winning St. Lucian poet and playwright Kendel Hippolyte thinks that Caribbean nationals should view the Earth as their mother. “For me, the whole thing is so basic: the earth that we are living on and in is our mother and there are ways that we are supposed to treat our mother and relate…
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Can Creative Industry evolve into the Region’s new economy?
(First published in the CARICOM Secretariat Publication, CARICOM View (CARIFESTA: Showcase of Caribbean Culture, July-September 2007) Riding in a chartered bus in downtown Kingston, Jamaica last year, Eddy Grant, the leading Barbados-based, Guyana-born Caribbean pop singer, music mogul and entrepreneur, pondered the future of the Caribbean given its continued dependence on traditional export commodities like rice, sugar and bananas. “The time for…
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Climate Change: An Interview with Guyanese President David Granger
Nearly 90 percent of Guyana’s population lives on a narrow coastline strip a half to one metre below sea level. That coastal belt is protected by seawall barriers that have existed since the Dutch occupation of the country. In recent times, however, severe storms have toppled these defences, resulting in significant flooding, a danger scientists predict may become more frequent.…
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The Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy: Breaking the cycle of poverty in fishing communities
Social protection exists when governments develop policies and programmes to address economic, environmental and social vulnerabilities to food insecurity and poverty. The Caribbean Community Common Fisheries Policy (CCCFP) is one such policy which Caribbean Countries believe can help to enhance the income, status and capacities of fisherfolk; thus, enabling them to sustainably provide for themselves and their family members. By…
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Trinidadian designs mobile app for prestigious Hilton hotel group
CALIFORNIA, United States, Thursday May 28, 2015 – Trinidad-born entrepreneur and mobile specialist, Anthony Phills, has designed a mobile app for Hilton Worldwide, a leading global hospitality company, spanning the accommodation sector from luxury and full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and focused-service hotels The Hilton HHonors 2.0 mobile app is now available in the Google Play Store. Working with…
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Tourism competition is not a guessing game | Ronald Sanders
Sir Ronald Sanders BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Friday May 22, 2015 – The performance of only five of the 14 independent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are recorded in the 2015 Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report published by the World Economic Forum. Of the 144 countries measured by the Report Barbados is the highest ranked CARICOM country at 46 with Trinidad and Tobago at 69…
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