Full Coverage: Caribbean

07.09.2009 It's said to be the most reproduced image in the history of photography, and it makes an excellent documentary, says Daniel Nelson.

14.08.2009 The British Government today took a major step to clean up public life in the Turks and Caicos Islands, following dismissal of a legal challenge to its plans.
+ Britain Suspends Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands

11.03.2009 Almost 100 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica are centenarians, many more are in their nineties and most are women. Gabrielle Le Roux’s Living Ancestors’ display celebrates their remarkable lives and suggests reasons for their staying power.

16.02.2009 As the nationalisation of major banks looks increasingly likely, the World Social Forum is promoting a "new economic and social model". It's always informative to revisit Cuba when assessing the strengths and weaknesses of socialist ideals.

05.12.2008 A Cuban journalist, a North Korean radio station and two Burmese bloggers win media prizes.

19.11.2008 In a reversal of the traditional role of foreign experts, a Haitian team will be in Canada next week for discussions aimed at helping Vancouver and Port-au-Prince tackle HIV-AIDS more effectively.

17.11.2008 As Bond fiddles with his mobile internet gadget in the latest movie, which OneWorld Guide would be given that magical half second of screen-time? The Gender Guide is an unlikely candidate, given the denial of violence against women in western culture.

26.10.2008 Survivors of this season's four devastating hurricanes in Haiti will receive a boost from the United Nations fund set up to help in the wake of major disasters, the UN relief chief announced after visiting the struggling Caribbean country.

09.09.2008 Caribbean heads of government should refuse to sign a new trade deal that the European Union is attempting to force on the region, says a leading development charity.

08.09.2008 Flooding caused by rains that lashed Haiti after a recent series of back-to-back hurricanes has affected an estimated 650,000 people, of whom 300,000 are children, says the UN children's fund.

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.