Highlights: Beware of the ‘hype’/100 economies of the South are still in recession/China’s growth will not necessarily boost developing countries’ exports/Rethink the role of domestic markets and of industrial policy and technology policy/The South should make its own definition of South-South Cooperation
Cary Fraser reviews Robert Anthony Waters, Jr.’s “‘A Betrayal of the Cause of Colonial People the World Over’: The British Caribbean Against Jagan.” The Journal of Caribbean History 43:1 (2009): 115-135.
In this article, Robert Waters makes an effort to explore the internal dynamics and tensions of the decolonization process in the British West Indian colonies during the 1950s and 1960s, particularly among the leaders of the four colonies that gained their independence in the 1960s – Jamaica (1962), Trinidad and Tobago (1962), Barbados (1966) and Guyana (1966)…
Lecture to the Young Economists Association, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, February 25, 2010
I suppose that one of the requirements to be a former Prime Minister is that you should be seldom seen, and seldom heard. I fully intend to meet those requirements. Sometimes, however, there will be developments in our public affairs about which it will be difficult to speak, but impossible to remain silent...
Presentation at Panel discussion ‘Whither Air Jamaica?’, SALISES/Department of Economics, UWI, St Augustine, January 12, 2010
The YouTube video on Indonesia sent out by Wendy Lee is further confirmation of the extent of the contribution of human action to global warming. The atmospheric pollution, so graphically shown in the video, is an indication of the future to which we might be condemned if we continue to dither on taking effective action to promote alternative development policies which could mitigate or halt environmental degradation…
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Fresh revelations about the operations in the Eastern Caribbean of the CLICO affiliate, British American Insurance Company, underline the extent of reckless corporate behaviour, the cost to taxpayers of failure to adequately regulate the financial sector, and the dangers of continued delays in completing the CSME.
Among the conventional wisdom that we hear every day in the business press is that developing countries should bend over backwards to create a friendly climate for foreign corporations, follow orthodox (neo-liberal) macro-economic policy advice, strive to achieve an investment-grade sovereign credit rating so as to attract more foreign capital.
Guess what country is expected to have the fastest economic growth in the Americas this year? Bolivia….
Anyone with a modicum of genuine interest in the welfare of the masses of Barbadian and Caribbean people would recognise that with a massive global economic crisis threatening unprecedented destruction, the Caribbean needs, now more than ever, to come together in brotherhood and solidarity under the banner of our “Caribbean Community” (CARICOM)!…
From Stabroek News, 26/10/09.Yarimar Bonilla teaches anthropology at the University of Virginia. She has also written on the mass strike in Guadeloupe earlier this year (https://nacla.org/node/5668 [1]).
In January and October of this year two massive demonstrations took place in the Caribbean, both of which have received little if any media coverage in the Anglophone Caribbean. The first was in Guadeloupe; the second, the subject of this article, took place last week in Puerto Rico…
In 2004 two events sent shock waves across the Caribbean Sea, presenting us with two radically different blueprints for future hemispheric relations. In February a combined force of American, Canadian and French troops slipped into Haiti in the dead of night, “convinced” President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to resign, and spirited him out of the country into exile. Over the past five years the United Nations has occupied Haiti, ostensibly helping to build democracy, but, in reality, crushing democratic opposition movements. In a historic turn of events, Brazil, which has emerged in recent years as a regional superpower, has led UN forces in Haiti since 2005.
Meanwhile, in December 2004, the governments of Venezuela and Cuba spearheaded the Bolivarian People’s Alternative (now the Bolivarian Alliance, or ALBA). ALBA has sought a new kind of relationship between independent Caribbean and Latin American states…
