Jan Carew, who celebrated his 90th birthday on September 24, has lived an extraordinary and itinerant life, or many overlapping lives, and seemingly many lifetimes. He begins in Guyana, but in many ways his life defies space and time. He is the quintessential diasporic persona, a happy wanderer whose presence helped to shape seminal moments in the lives of people of African and Caribbean descent…
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Chapter 9 in Alleyne, Frank; Denny Lewis-Bynoe and Xiomara Arcibald (Eds.) Growth and Development Strategies in the Caribbean. Barbados: Caribbean Development Bank, 2010; 199-218.
The paper discusses economic integration initiatives from the launch of the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) in 1965 to developments in the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) up to 2010. It uses a political economy perspective to discuss characteristics, underlying theories, embedded strategies, implementation problems and economic outcomes; and concludes by outlining a possible research agenda.
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has laid in Parliament its Budget for 2010-2011 with accompanying documentation that provides detailed information on the state of the economy and the impact of world and regional economic conditions, as well as the Public Sector Investment Programme.
Jay Mandle is W. Bradford Wiley Professor of Economics at Colgate University, USA
In a lecture last April, Dr. DeLisle Worrell, the Governor of the Central Bank of Barbados pointed out that “the standard of living of the typical Barbadian was transformed in the 3 decades after World War II.” He added, significantly, “that improvement has continued.” Certainly the first part of Worrell’s formulation is correct….But the inference that seems to follow from Worrell’s comment, namely that the progress experienced in the past has continued in the present, must be qualified…
Third Distinguished Lecture, The Cropper Foundation; UWI, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago; September 1, 2010
Biodiversity, indigenous knowledge, and sustainable development are very closely linked. The indigenous knowledge systems of the peoples of the South constitute the world largest reservoir of knowledge of the diverse species of plant and animal life on earth. For many centuries, their indigenous agricultural systems have utilized practices and techniques which embody, what one scientist has called ‘Principles of Permanence’- ..
Declassified Colonial Office documents reveal the extent of British duplicity, American hypocrisy and the naivety of a militantly anti-colonial leader who nevertheless trusted in British justice; in bringing British Guiana to ‘Independence’ in 1966. This textbook lesson in imperial intrigue and machination should be required listening for every Caribbean student.
At 12:00 noon (1pm EST), Friday 3 September 2010, fifteen camps threatened with forced expulsion all over Port-au-Prince will again simultaneously beat pots and pans, or “bat teneb,” to demand a moratorium on expulsions and an immediate solution to their inadequate shelter while hurricanes loom…
