Full Coverage: Caribbean

01.05.2008 The Haitian government and the international community contributed significantly to the dire situation that sparked the early April food riots in the Caribbean nation, writes anthropologist Mark Schuller.

03.04.2008 The 35th anniversary celebration of a Haiti's largest and oldest peasant movement demonstrates the organization's ability to empower rural people and the vitality of grassroots democracy in this Caribbean nation, writes Nikhil Aziz.

02.04.2008 The Jamaican authorities are wilfully neglecting the poorest communities by failing to tackle inner-city violence, says a new Amnesty report that spotlights abusive policing methods that lead to hundreds of fatal shootings and extrajudicial executions.

01.04.2008 Several trips and countless exchanges with Jamaicans battling HIV/AIDS inspired poet and writer Kwame Dawes to pen these "anthems of hope and alarms of warning."

21.03.2008 Although Sorybel struggled to open a small coffee shop in the Dominican Republic, her marketing studies at a local university and a microfinance loan have empowered her to state with confidence, "I know I will do great things someday."

10.03.2008 Upon Fidel Castro's retirement, U.S. media repeatedly resorted to inaccurate stereotypes of the ex-President and his brother, Raul, to characterize the former as an "irrational" leader while idealizing capitalism and ignoring U.S. aggression towards the island nation, writes Aviva Chomsky.

06.03.2008 A policymaker who advocates population and gender issues, Dame Billie Antoinette Miller of Barbados, and a New York-based NGO that helps save women’s lives in developing countries have won this year’s United Nations Population Award.

28.02.2008 The United States should follow the example set by other nations around the world and normalize relations with Cuba, "a country that continues to expand its influence as a leader in public health in developing nations," writes JoJo Farrell.

21.02.2008 Fidel Castro recently concluded his near 50-year reign, but "Cuba's abusive legal and institutional mechanisms continue to deprive Cubans of their basic rights," says an international human rights watchdog, noting that the U.S. embargo continues to serve as an 'excuse' for the island nation's dismal rights situation.
From: Human Rights Watch

19.02.2008 A display of photographs of the self-governing Maroon community in Jamaica runs at the Docklands Museum until 31 August as part of the museum's recently inaugurated London, Sugar & Slavery gallery.

19.02.2008 As Fidel Castro resigns after 50 years as president and commander in chief of Cuba, leaving power in the hands of his brother Raul, Ed Vulliamy and Andres Schipani look at the Cuban revolutionary's career of constant struggle. This article first appeared in the Observer in January 2007.
+ OneWorld Guide to Cuba

18.02.2008 Addressing infants' and maternal nutrition needs during a child's first two years of life is much more effective, in terms of promoting children's physical and cognitive development, than treating children who are already moderately malnourished, says a study from an international food research institute.

28.01.2008 An initiative "to secure the economic, social and environmental sustainability of around a million cocoa farmers and their communities in Ghana, India, Indonesia and the Caribbean" was unveiled by chocolate manufacturer Cadbury and the UN Development Programme today.
From Cadbury Schweppes

24.01.2008 The future for corals does not look bright, according to the first in-depth analysis of recent widespread coral bleaching in the Caribbean.

29.11.2007 Dr. Jean "Bill" Pape, founder of the first Haitian clinic to investigate the Caribbean AIDS epidemic, is seeing infection rates drop thanks to pro-condom campaigns, increased HIV-screening, and safer blood banks.
From: Heroes of HIV

19.11.2007 As European Union development ministers meet in Brussels to discuss Economic Partnership Agreements today, a leading international charity warns that signing proposed temporary "framework agreements" would damage economies in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific countries and undermine regional economic integration.

13.11.2007 Kehitysmaiden lapsille suunnattu tietokone löytää tiensä vielä tämän vuoden puolella myös Peruun, Meksikoon, Etiopiaan, Ruandaan, Haitiin ja Intiaan. Käyttöönoton lähestyessä alkuperäinen sadan dollarin kannettava on hinnaltaan jo lähes kaksinkertainen.

02.11.2007 As natural disasters ravish the Caribbean and Central Africa, the United Nations has announced the launch of a new office that will use space technology to reduce and prevent disasters around the world.

24.10.2007 Haitian and global activist Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine has not been seen since August. Ben Terral of Haiti Action contrasts the Haiti of the US and its proxy army with the real Haiti of Lovinsky, the Lavalas movement and the masses of Haitian people.
From: Pambazuka News

12.10.2007 Roughly 10 percent of Haitian children live a life of forced slave labor because their families cannot afford to raise them. Listen as they explain in their own words the hardships they endure as they are sent away from their homes to serve under families in the city.