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Civil society shaping tobacco control in the Caribbean
Around the world the challenges faced by tobacco control advocates are similar: accessing funding and other resources, influencing policy makers, the tobacco industry, the tobacco industry and the tobacco industry. This is why it’s always useful to learn about routes…
Suriname’s debt surge: What’s driving it?
By Jeetendra Khadan From iadb The debt to GDP ratio in Suriname increased by 35.6 percentage points in 3 years, moving from 29% of its GDP in 2014 to 64.6% in 2016. It’s the largest increase in a debt ratio…
TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN 2017 WINNERS
Cayman Islands amongst Taste of the Caribbean Awardees: Joshua Saldanha, Angela Robeedo, Melissa Logan, Brittney Bodden & Team Cayman win Gold TASTE OF THE CARIBBEAN 2017 WINNERS CARIBBEAN NATIONAL TEAM OF THE YEAR WINNER Barbados GOLD Barbados Cayman Islands…
High crime rate a shadow over Caribbean tourism: study
Agence France-Presse From The Jakarta Post The Caribbean and its pristine beaches may be a tourist magnet, but life in paradise comes at a price: the soaring violent crime rate is higher than in Latin America or Africa. The study…
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Migration from the Caribbean and South America
From Curacao Chronicle “At the time of independence, in 1975, Dutch subjects living in the colony of Suriname were given the choice of Dutch or Surinamese citizenship. Amazingly, 220,000 out of a population of 450,000 left Suriname for the Netherlands…
Dutch Caribbean Islands and Suriname meet to discuss mechanisms for international cooperation mechanisms under the 2003 Convention
From UNESCO From 3 to 7 April 2017, representatives from Suriname and the Dutch Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten met in Kralendijk, Bonaire, to take part in a workshop entitled ‘Mechanisms for International…
An exit from the Caribbean housing trap
BY MICHAEL G. DONOVAN AND THERESE TURNER-JONES From Americas Quarterly Putting a decent roof over everyone’s head in the Caribbean would cost $18 billion. Here are three keys to making it happen. The Caribbean is caught in a housing trap….
Guyana studies draft petroleum legislation
By Bert Wilkinson From Caribbean Life A Guyanese bipartisan select parliamentary committee is set to pore over draft petroleum legislation that would include jail time and heavy fines for locals and industry players who take bribes from oil operators and…
Frantic scramble by Caribbean for oil, gas
ByBert Wilkinson From Amsterdam News From all appearances, several countries in the 15-nation Caribbean Community are rushing to sign offshore oil exploration agreements with big … From all appearances, several countries in the 15-nation Caribbean Community are rushing to sign…
US-Caribbean Coast Guard make multi-million dollar drugs bust
SAN JUAN Puerto Rico (CMC) — Two days after four Guyanese were arrested, United States Coast Guard officials said that drugs estimated to value US$125 million had been seized during a joint operation involving Caribbean Coast Guard officials in international…
