Archive for the ‘Guyana’ Category

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[...]

August 5th, 2009 - 11:22 am § in Barbados, Front Page, Guyana, Press Releases

“Barbadian first” policy flogs Guyanese in Barbados

The unraveling of political ties between the Caribbean nations of Guyana and Barbados has created heated dialogue after the compulsory deportation of Guyanese nationals from Barbados following the implementation of the “Barbadian First” amnesty law announced by the island’s Prime Minister Davi[...]

March 25th, 2009 - 8:23 am § in Barbados, Brazil, Caribbean, Cuba, Dominican Republic, European Union, Front Page, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Press Releases, Trinidad & Tobago

Can Fading Caribbean Island-States Thrive in the World of Alternative Energy?

- Does the Caribbean sugar cane industry possess the will and resources to recover from its collapse and evade all-but total catastrophe? - Despite a number of opportunities, efforts towards orderly ethanol development in the region have been chaotic - Can lessons from Brazil’s acclaimed ethanol p[...]

May 28th, 2008 - 10:50 am § in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Front Page, Guyana, Peru, Reports, Venezuela

Brazil Spearheads UNASUR Defense Council, but in a Surprise move, Colombia Withdraws

• Implications for Brazil • The Venezuela-Colombia Rift • Regional Autonomy • The Rebirth of the Fourth Fleet and with it the Ghost of Gunboat Diplomacy • The new Pattern of United States-South American Relations
Member states of the Union of South American Nat[...]

January 23rd, 2008 - 12:02 pm § in Front Page, Guyana, Press Releases, Venezuela

All is Not Well in Georgetown: Guyana’s Emerging Hemispheric Role

• Guyana and Venezuela’s longstanding territorial dispute: the “frozen conflict,” which is asleep for now and hopefully forever • Will Guyana’s Jagdeo become Washington’s new best friend on the continent? The latest confrontation between Venezuela and Guyana, which indisputably too[...]

September 10th, 2007 - 10:44 am § in Brazil, Canada, Caribbean, Chile, Cuba, Front Page, Guyana, Mercosur, Mexico, Peru, Press Releases, United Nations

India: The Relatively Quiet, but Growing Presence of a New Asian Powerhouse in the Western Hemisphere, Particularly Brazil

Is curry chicken along with a caipirinha (a Brazilian drink) on its way to becoming a ubiquitous combination throughout the South American behemoth? A collaboration on nuclear energy and what could turn out to be a competitive struggle for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council From Cuba to [...]

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[...]