A year and a half after a deadly earthquake devastated its capital, 650,000 victims still wait for permanent housing in more than 1,000 unstable emergency camps across Haiti as a new hurricane season arrives. Post-quake Haiti: Security Depends on Resettlement and Development , the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the immediate challenge faced by Michel Martelly…
The New World, the inspiration of Lloyd Best in 1957, was a loosely organized grouping of intellectuals, educators, cultural workers, writers and activists mainly from the Anglophone Caribbean or with Caribbean origins and interests…
The Caribbean Movement for Civil Empowerment (CMCE), a new people-centred organisation established to advance meaningful regional integration in the Caribbean is embarking on a drive to have our Caribbean leaders listen to us citizens and promote true democracy driven by us the people. The most effective way for Caribbean societies to survive the onslaught of the new era in which we live is to forge closer and stronger linkages. We therefore need progressive and genuine action on the part of our leaders.
Caribbean leaders meet in St. Kitts/Nevis from 1-4 July. We can’t afford to let the Caribbean Community fade away into oblivion. Let your voice be heard. Be counted!
Caribbean Movement for Civil Empowerment
Website: http://caribmove.webs.com
After weeks of high profile media attention and commentary in the wider society the report of the Manatt Commission of Enquiry and the extradition request from the United States for Mr. Christopher Coke has been tabled in the Jamaican parliament. It has been greeted with much disapproval and scepticism and has reinforced the view held all along by the majority of the population that nothing was going to come out of it…
Thank you for organising this interactive dialogue. It is good that the United Nations Security Council has met the African Union (AU) Mediation Committee (High-Level Ad hoc Committee on Libya) so that we can exchange views on the situation should have happened much earlier because Libya is a founding member of the AU…
As a professor and an influential voice on the internet, I am appealing to you to stop supporting, be it implicitly or explicitly, the criminal bombardment of the Libyan people by the US/NATO attacks…
I shall focus on Eric Williams’s imagination of a new Trinidad and Tobago and a new Caribbean and the leadership he provided. I shall also address the continuing relevance of his vision in our contemporary societies…
The year 2011 began with a series of shattering, wrathful explosions from the Arab peoples. Is this springtime the inception of a second ‘awakening of the Arab world?’ Or will these revolts bog down and finally prove abortive…
Mervyn Claxton argues that “Uninformed internet readers who closely followed the “debate” on the Libyan conflict, on this website, in the hope of gaining some understanding of the nature of that very complex issue, and what is at stake in the various possible outcomes, would have been completely and utterly misled”.
