Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 11, 2008	UNITED NATIONS warns hungry Haitians could cause more unrest in Haiti
UN warns hungry Haitians could cause more unrest: By Louis Charbonneau - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters): Ignoring the plight of hurricane-ravaged Haiti and leaving its population hungry and angry could lead to a new wave of social unrest in the Caribbean country, the top UN envoy to Haiti said...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 8, 2008	Haitian President calls for temporary protected status (TPS) for Haitians living illegally in the United States
Haiti president calls for end to deportation: By Oscar Ramjeet - Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent: PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: A CMC report from Miami states that Haitian President, Rene Preval has reiterated his fervent appeal to the United States president to grant temporary...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Oct 7, 2008	Guyana's president gets the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) renegotiation backing from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries
Guyana's president gets EPA renegotiation backing from ACP: By Kevin Lindon - Caribbean Net News Guyana Correspondent: GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo’s call for a review of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) has received the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 30, 2008	Democratic socialism
Reflections of Fidel: I did not want to write a third consecutive reflection, but I can not leave this until Monday. There is one accurate response to Bush’s "democratic capitalism:" Chavez’ democratic socialism. There couldn’t be a more accurate way to express the great...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008	Russian Navy deploys ships to Venezuela
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - A Russian Navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the...... [view]

Posted By:  sewotoy Posted On:  Sep 21, 2008	Dominican beauty wins Caribbean World crown
Another reason to be proud of Marah and off course to boast my country, Dominica - Nature Island of the Caribbean, no other island to compare for her beauty is rich and rare (Marah's too), here is the story as reported from www.bviplatinum.com Miss Dominica Marah Walter Crowned Miss Caribbean...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 15, 2008	Latin America and the Caribbean face significant challenges because of climate change, energy sustainability and steep food price increases, among other factors
Regional Challenges Pile Up : By Quincy Parker - Nassau, Bahamas: Extreme poverty has been reduced in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to Organization of American States (OAS) Secretary General José Miguel Insulza, and regional democracy has remained relatively stable over the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 8, 2008	The United Nations Monitor Storm-ravaged Countries In The Caribbean
UN Monitoring Region: By Quincy Parker - Nassau, Bahamas: With storm after storm pounding the region and little reprieve in between, the United Nations has announced that while it is providing assistance to a number of storm-ravaged countries in the Caribbean, its resources are stretched....... [view]

Posted By:  KarstenWe Posted On:  Apr 26, 2008	Report shows EU imports from developing countries growing
The European Commission has presented to the European Parliament its regular report on the openness of the European market to imports from developing countries. The report sets out how the EU has continued in 2007 to use its trade policy to advance a pro-development agenda and analyses the...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Sep 5, 2008	The Proposed Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) With The European Union Is Attracting Much Attention And Consternation In The Bahamas And Caribbean
A growing chorus against EPA: The Nassau Guardian Editorial - Nassau, Bahamas: The Bahamas government has recently announced its intentions to hold a series of town meetings on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) to discuss and hopefully, clarify matters of concern to the general...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 30, 2008	The Monetary Cost Of HIV/AIDS In The Bahamas
Million-Dollar Annual HIV Bill: By Macushla N. Pinder - Nassau, Bahamas: The government spends more than a million dollars a year on antiretroviral medication for approximately 1,600 people living with HIV in The Bahamas. Health officials say, though, that expenditure could skyrocket...... [view]