Caribbean Political Economy

Will the Real Revolutionaries Please Stand Up? David Comissiong

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If there had been a CNN, a Fox News or a BBC three hundred and fifty years ago - in 1652 - Barbados would have been the leading international news story of the day! All over the world, people would have been talking about the remarkable news of the signing of the Charter of Barbados ..

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The Common Sense Convois, Lloyd Best Institute

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The Lloyd Best Institute has announced the ‘Common Sense Convois’ to be held in Trinidad and Tobago March 18-25 2012, ‘a civic intervention designed to influence the shape of the next 50 years of the Caribbean and to network the region in a common conversation about the Caribbean and its future’.

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Guyanese Strategic Culture, Ivelaw Griffith

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This Report (a) offers historical, socio-cultural, economic, and other contours of the Origins of Guyana’s strategic culture, (b) probes the values and beliefs of its Keepers, (c) examines territorial disputes, drugs, and crime as core enduring rivalries and emerging Challenges, and (d) discusses the November 2011 elections and deficits in capabilities as key aspects of Continuity and Change…

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Time to Revisit the West Indian Commission! People’s Empowerment Party

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The Peoples Empowerment Party (PEP) embraces the year 2012 as an opportunity for the Barbadian and Caribbean people to “take a fresh guard” in relation to both their individual island nation building projects and to their collective multi-territory Caribbean Community project…

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Caribbean Contradictions: Dominican Republic Immgration Policy and Persons of Haitian Descent, Peter Jordens

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The ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the OAS has defended his government’s immigraton policy in a recent letter to The Economist magazine:(but) but the Ambassador betrays himself in the second paragraph of his letter by (focusing on) “persons born within Dominican territory of Haitian parents”….

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Haiti and Trans-Caribbean Literary Identity: A Missing Link In Caribbean Literature

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This new book by Emilio Jorge Rodriguez is “a remarkable collection of essays,” …(which) “should be listed among the few books that can be said to truly advance the understanding of the subject they address.” Its subject is the Haitian novel in the 20th century and the search for Amerindian and African origins in the masterful work of Alejo Carpentier.

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Gardening in the Tropics, Exhibition of Artwork by Jasmine Thomas-Girvan

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The essence of Maya Angelou, Olive Senior, Derek Walcott, Patrick Chamoiseau, and other writers seem to fill Jasmine’s studio. She draws from them the beauty and complexity of their musings on place and the sublime, translating, reinterpreting, and shaping their words into her own language. (Melanie Archer)

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