RSSAnother 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, [...]
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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[...]
Trinidad and Tobago’s Dirty Peg to the U.S. Dollar and Inflation Galore: Fateful Days for the Economy
Trinidad and Tobago’s roaring economy has almost reached full-capacity, and now threatens to burst Without reining in the inflation rate and loosening its artificial peg to the U.S. dollar, valuable gains in Trinidadian and Tobagonian international trade could be wiped out The economy desperately[...]
June 24th, 2005 - 9:57 am § in Belize, Caribbean, Front Page, Guyana, Jamaica, Press Releases, Trinidad and Tobago
Callousness Redefined: How EU and U.S. Economic Policies Spell a Bitter End for the Caribbean’s Sugar Industry
The frustration of Caribbean nations over the European Commission’s (EC) preliminary decision last year to cut the preferential price it pays for the region’s sugar was hardened by yesterday’s elaboration of the proposal. The European Union’s (EU) decision, prompted by the World Trade Organi[...]