Archive for the Category: "Bahamas"

September 23rd, 2009 - 1:05 pm § in Bahamas, Barbados, Caribbean, Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Front Page, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Reports, Venezuela

The U.S. Military’s Presence in the Greater Caribbean Basin: More a Matter of Trade Strategy and Ideology than Drugs

Washington’s initiative to have access to at least seven Colombian military facilities has been criticized as an extension of the controversial Plan Colombia and as a breach of fealty to its sister republics. Suspicion also has surfaced that the base deal was fundamentally a move against Venezuela[...]

July 27th, 2007 - 2:54 pm § in Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Front Page, Guyana, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Reports, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago

CARICOM and Washington Commission a New Chapter in U.S.-Caribbean Relations

Another in a Series of COHA Caribbean-Related Reports For the first time in ten years, heads of state from the fifteen-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the United States came together at the “Conference on the Caribbean: A 20/20 Vision” held in Washington, D.C., from June 19 – 21, [...]

July 24th, 2007 - 10:05 am § in Bahamas, Caribbean, Front Page, Guyana, Reports, Trinidad and Tobago

COHA Report: Another in a Series of Reports on Drugs, Terror and Criminality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Growing Criminality Along With the Advent of The ‘Terror” Factor in the Caribbean In the past, matters of U.S. concern with the Caribbean have been related to stepped up flows of illegal northbound immigration as well as the region’s ominous role as an emerging major portal for incoming narcot[...]

July 11th, 2005 - 2:43 pm § in Bahamas, Front Page, Press Releases

The Bahamas Rejects the Creation of CSME, thus Compromising CARICOM’s Integration Bid

At the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) annual meeting in St. Lucia on July 3-7, the Bahamian government declared that it could not participate in the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME). Nevertheless, Barbadian Prime Minister Owen Arthur subsequently declared that the rest of the CARICOM na[...]