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	<title>Council on Hemispheric Affairs &#187; Trinidad &amp; Tobago</title>
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		<title>An Economy Blinded by the Sun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a Small World After All As globalization has carried with it a greater degree of potential for economic integration among different nations, the tiny English-speaking Caribbean states are fighting for their place in an ever-shrinking world. Aside from the potential boon associated with globalization, the spread of free trade and increased competition between transnational corporations could pose another considerable threat to vulnerable Caribbean nations that are often ill-equipped to retaliate against more economically formidable societies. As far back as the eighteenth century, national economies experienced the initial phases of industrial capitalism. During this era imperial powers, such as England and Spain, exploited the colonies, forcing them to export raw materials to the mother-countries for processing, which prevented the Caribbean islands from achieving a proper degree of progress. For instance, the island nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis historically had come to depend heavily upon on sugar exports and had the potential to complete the entire production process from inception to launch. However, raw sugar was then required to be shipped to England for refinement, after which the Saint Kitts and Nevis government had to pay to import granulated sugar back to their island.[1] In the 1960s, after centuries of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trinidad and Tobago: The Big Guy on a Difficult Block</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[• Corruption is key factor in ouster of Trinidad and Tobago’s former Prime Minister. • Landslide victory by UNC’s Kamla Persad Bissessar, as island swears in first female Prime Minister. • Nation must expunge the deeply ingrained habit of corruption as well as a propensity for homicide. Located at the southern tip of the Caribbean basin, the oil and gas-rich twin island Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (hereafter “T&#38;T”) often referred to as the rainbow country, is known for its flamboyant mixtures of cultures and succulent culinary dishes. T&#38;T possesses one of the highest per capita growth rates in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the Caribbean region. T&#38;T’s Gross National Product (GNP) has seen the increase of double-digit growth rates between 2004 – 2008, with an average per capita GNP growth rate of 16.4 percent during that period. The emergence of T&#38;T in the regional vanguard of prime economic performers also has brought with it a number of distinct challenges and problems to be placed on the Caribbean area’s agenda, and especially regarding the case of T&#38;T residents. But T&#38;T also has turned in a performance hugely scarred by corruption, drugs, gang warfare and indifference to the plight of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COHA on Ecuador’s adherence to ALBA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[-Implications of Ecuador Joining an Uncertain Alliance Just at a time that analysts were crossing out Hugo Chávez as a ranking regional player, with the days ago adhesion of Ecuador to the Venezuela-inspired organization, he has managed to propel a new spurt of momentum to the Caracas grouping and its now seven fellow-members (Bolivia, St. Vincent, Dominica, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Honduras, and Cuba). Up to now, Washington has tended to breezily dismiss ALBA as a bizarre, if whimsical ideological caprice on Chávez’s part, in want of an agenda and serious purpose. While ALBA still has to make some practical progress in terms of currency reform, expansion of trade, unified regional actions, and promotion of social progress that express acts of solidarity, and developing as an ancillary IDB type body, ALBA can by no means be considered a lightweight. Ecuador’s action in joining ALBA also will have profound implications for the balance of economic forces in the region, perhaps further weakening the U.S.-oriented Andean Community (from which Venezuela withdrew several years ago). The possible renewed growth of ALBA, with the conceivable adherence of Peru under the left-leaning Ollanta Humala, and El Salvador’s recently inaugurated Mauricio Funes, could be of some ultimate relevance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summit of the Americas: Obama Goes to Trinidad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An Opportunity to Build a Coherent U.S.-Latin America Policy President Obama travels to Trinidad on April 17 with a unique opportunity to redefine U.S.-Latin American relations The time for taking stock is over, and the U.S. must present a coherent plan composed of inclusiveness, constructive engagement and a definitive end to a Cold War mentality to its southern neighbors In the absence of a seasoned Latin Americanist in the White House, Washington may well struggle to meet even minimal expectations The reconstruction of a meaningful inter-American relationship must involve the dismantling of the Cuban embargo and Washington’s singling out Cuba for special treatment The world knows that there are scores of worse human rights violators than Cuba, over which the White House loses no sleep President Barack Obama will travel to Trinidad and Tobago on April 17 with the opportunity to define the approach his administration will take towards Latin America. The region’s presidents, many of whom enthusiastically welcomed Obama’s election in November, now must hope that the new leader in the White House makes more use of this unique forum than was the case with his predecessor. George Bush’s approach to the 2005 Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Fading Caribbean Island-States Thrive in the World of Alternative Energy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[- 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 program motivate foreign investors to allow the Caribbean to follow suit? In the ongoing search for a way to reduce global dependence on crude oil, many countries are turning to alternative energy sources to satisfy their seemingly insatiable appetite for fuel. The British, for instance, are spearheading a growing movement to recycle used vegetable oil in order to power motor vehicles, yet will be restricted by inadequate resources of this nature. A far more practical option has been adopted throughout much of the tropical world, notably in Brazil. Brazil’s thirty-year-old biofuel program is widely considered to be the pioneer in sugar cane ethanol production, and for good reason; the country created for itself the first sustainable biofuel economy in the world. The success of Latin America’s industrial behemoth in this respect would seem to presage a promising template for developing neighboring countries with once glorious and now sadly hobbled sugar cane industries. West Indian [...]]]></description>
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