May 01
Forty years after the establishment of the Caribbean Community, we continue to be held back by petty insular chauvinism.
Apr 30
In this half-an-hour YouTube video, people from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe talk about people-centred regional integration as an answer to the interlocking crisis in global finance, economy, food, energy and climate; and its root cause, the neo-liberal development model. But where is the Caribbean?
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Apr 30
Food Security and Mitigating Climate Change: The Case for Organic Agriculture, Mervyn Claxton
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Is Caricom ignoring the merits of organic agriculture in its policy choices for regional food security? A detailed and critical review that draws on a several authoritative sources raises troubling questions for consideration by consumers, public health professionals, educators, environmentalists, farmers organisations and government policy makers.
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Apr 20
Responding to Tennyson Joseph’s paper and comments, this contributor argues that a Caribbean Integration Party should take the form of a social movement. He goes on to outline a radically different structure for a new West Indian federation to make it both representative and effective.
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Apr 12
Tennyson Joseph, who teaches Political Science at the UWI in Barbados, has outlined a programme for “the Second Independence Revolution” in an address to the Common Sense Convois of the Lloyd Best Institute of the West Indies held recently.
It is now fifty years since the first English-Speaking Caribbean states attained independence. To many of us, these have been fifty years of marking time, trial and error, false starts, and dashed expectations, with some successes but more disappointments…
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Apr 11
Silencing the message or the messenger …. or both? Statement by former UNCTAD staff members
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Statement by former senior UNCTAD staff members including Secretary General Rubens Ricupero, Deputy Secretaries-General and Directors, regarding the pressure placed on UNCTAD and the G-77 by major developed countries in the preparations for UNCTAD XIII.
VIDEO: Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food Vijay Prashad
Since its establishment almost 50 years ago at the instigation of developing countries UNCTAD has always been a thorn in the flesh of economic orthodoxy. Its analyses of global macro-economic issues from a development perspective have regularly provided an alternative view to that offered by the World Bank and the IMF controlled by the west. Now efforts are afoot to silence that voice…
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North battles for ‘market’ supremacy, Vijay Prashad
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VIDEO: Global North VS South Over Financialization of Food Vijay Prashad
Mar 23
CARICOM is in crisis. This is for three reasons….the crisis is sufficiently real to put the very existence of CARICOM in question…
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Mar 23
Ivelaw Griffith, Norman Girvan, Richard Bernal, Phlliip Hughes and Paget de Freitas give varying views on the danger of collapse of the Caribbean Community to the Washington-based InterAmerican Dialogue
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Mar 18
‘Smaddification’, Affirmation and Caribbeanity: The Caribbean That Unites Us, Norman Girvan
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Transcript of an interview conducted during the Havana Book Fair in February 2012.
(Extract) What unites us is a common frame of reference of our historical experience. But what also unites us, in a context of diversity, has been the affirmation of what my old friend and colleague Rex Nettleford called “smaddification”…All the labor that was brought here was brought here in a condition of exploitation of one way or another and the process of creating a Caribbean identity out of those conditions is a process of resistance, of struggle and of affirmation of self, of the dignity of the human person and of the right to autonomy of our societies…
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El Caribe Que Nos Une (Versión en español)
Mar 11
The Communiqué issued by Caricom leaders at the close of their 23rd Intersessional meeting on March 8-9 offers few clues on the decisive action needed to salvage the regional project called for by Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in his pre-Summit letter to fellow heads and by the Consultants’ report on the reform of the Secrertariat. Readers are invited to check out the document for themselves and to come to their own conclusion.
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