Dec 17
Construction Of Inclusive, Culturally Diverse And Environmentally Responsible Societies In Latin America And The Caribbean
Call For Applications For Research Funding From The ALBA Cultural Fund
The ALBA Cultural Fund has issued a call for applications for funding of research projects on the building of inclusive, culturally diverse and environmentally responsible societies in Latin America and the Caribbean; with an emphasis on projects that generate theory from a critical analysis of the realities of the region. Researchers may be from both ALBA and non-ALBA member countries. Applications for research grants of up to $5,000 will be considered. Details are provided in the attached documents. For further information contact Ambassador Joan Underwoo,Office of the Prime Minister, Government of Antigua and Barbuda. email jhunderwood@gmail.com
It is important that scholars from the English,Dutch and French speaking Caribbean are adequately represented in ths research. Please pass this information on to others.
Dec 15
Ayiti Kale Je (Haiti Grassroots Watch) is a collaboration of grassroots media organizations which focuses on monitoring the country’s reconstruction from the viewpoint of Haiti’s majority.
Cité Soleil, Dec. 14, 2011 - While over one million refugees suffered under tents following the January 12, 2010, earthquake, 128 newly constructed homes, finished in May, 2010, sat empty for 15 months. Today, the majority of these “social housing” units are occupied, but mostly by illegal squatters who broke in by smashing windows and doors…
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Dec 15
Following is the link to an article published in the New Yorker Magazine (December 12 2011) on the operation by Jamaican security forces in May 2010 to execute an extradition order against now convicted drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, which resulted in over 70 civilian deaths. it comes at a time when the Jamaican government has confirmed that a U.S. military plane provided intelligence to the forces on the ground during the operation. Jamaican civil society organisations have long campaigned for an independent enquiry into the deaths.
Most cemeteries replace the illusion of life’s permanence with another illusion: the permanence of a name carved in stone. Not so May Pen Cemetery, in Kingston, Jamaica, where bodies are buried on top of bodies, weeds grow over the old markers, and time humbles even a rich man’s grave…
Dec 14
Commentary
Stupid, petty, vindictive, short-sighted, counter-productive, a huge diplomatic faux pas. These are the some of the words that could be used to describe the U.S. decision not to issue a special license to allow the Trinidad Hilton hotel to host the Cuba-CARICOM Summit in Port of Spain on December 8…
Unwelcome meddling by the United States Trinidad Express
US out of step on Cuba Trinidad Guardian
Shame on the USA! Federation of Independent Trade Unions
CARICOM’S stinging rebuke to the United States Rickey Singh
Blunder after blunder Raffique Shah
Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister apologises to President Raul Castro Trinidad Guardian
SPECIAL STATEMENT BY HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT OF CARICOM AND CUBA
Declaration adopted by the Cuba-CARICOM Summit
Dec 11
Webmaster’s note: the inaugural summit of the recently concluded Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) was attended by 13 CARICOM leaders, several of whom spoke out strongly in support of the new organisation, which aims to consolidate the unity and independence of the entire region. Tamara Pearson, who covered the summit for Venezuelanalysis.com, captures the feeilng and flavour of the historic meeting.
“Haha, Ortega doesn’t know what he’s talking about, neither does Evo, they don’t know anything about crime, there are reports out there that know more,” said a journalist from Bloomberg to his colleague. The journalist was sitting next to me in the press tent set up outside the CELAC plenary sessions in the Patio de Honor of the Bolivarian Militia University of Venezuela…
Final Declaration of Havana Approved
Declaration adopted by the Cuba-CARICOM Summit
CARICOM’S stinging rebuke to the United States Rickey Singh
US Committing blunder after blunder Raffique Shah
Dec 03
English translation of the official Cuban document that reproduces the Draft Guidelines (December 2010), the changes made as a result of the opinions of the population and other consultations, the reasons for the changes, and the final Guidelines approved at the Cuban Communist Party (PCC) Sixth Congress in April 2011. A valuable resource for researchers and others with an interest in the evolution of Cuba’s socialist project.
Dec 02
This essay first appeared in 1966 in the Guyana Independence Issue of New World Quarterly edited by George Lamming. It is republished here, by kind permission of the author, to mark the 50th anniversary of the passing of Frantz Fanon on December 5, 1961.
Fanon’s The Damned is one of those rare books which stands out not only through the brilliance of its penetrating social and psychological insights, or through the sheer vigour and originality of its style, but derives its greatest importance from the fact of being the key work which embodies the zeitgeist of a revolutionary social movement. ..
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Dec 02
Good sense should prevail in this very troubled situation and Ramotar should make every effort to talk to the leaders of the two main opposition parties to form a government of national unity. It would be the best thing for Guyana…
Dec 01
Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez is Director of the University Hospital of Psychiatry in Camaguey, Cuba; a member of Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade[1] and a director of the Brigade’s field hospital in the city of Leogâne, Haiti. Here he is interviewed by Roger Annis of the Canada Hati Action Network, while on a speaking tour of Canada.
