http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/963/ en_GB_uk Caribbean http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82231 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 http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82200 The future for corals does not look bright, according to the first in-depth analysis of recent widespread coral bleaching in the Caribbean. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81331 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. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78657 None of the 48 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries linked through an aid agreement to the European Union have selected HIV as a key area in their funding priorities, an analysis shows. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/78166 An ad campaign has been launched to promote whale-friendly policies in the Caribbean in the run-up to the 59th Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77354 Hurricane Ivan smashed the Caribbean islands to rubble in 2004, and global warming has made such lethal storms a growing threat. With hurricane season on the way, the islands have formed the world’s first multi-nation catastrophe insurance pool. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/75758 Access to treatment, care, and testing has greatly increased in Latin America and the Caribbean in recent years, where the HIV epidemic has been getting worse. http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/138753/1/ The 2005 hurricane season wreaked havoc in the Caribbean region. Never before had the Atlantic seen 27 tropical storms — including four in category 5 — and as many as 15 hurricanes in one season. The storms left a death toll of 2 280 people in their wake, with more than three million people displaced and an estimated USD 100 billion in economic damage. http://amlat.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73381 A expropriação das terras dos camponeses e o abandono da produção têm sido algumas das principais realidades apresentadas durante o I Fórum Social Caribe, que foi realizado até este domingo, 09, na Martinica. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/73213 Migration of the Caribbean's best and brightest to North America and Europe is being examined at a four-day summit in St. Kitts this week. As many as 83% of graduates emigrate from the region each year. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72911 On the eve of today's controversial International Whaling Commission meeting, a poll shows that citizens from 10 countries in the Pacific and Caribbean, whose governments repeatedly vote to resume commercial whaling, do not support the hunt. * Whales' fate hanging in the balance * Campaigners demand governments unite against Japan's massive porpoise hunt http://www.digitalopportunity.org/article/view/133109/1/ Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) organises symposium in Jamaica on the theme of “ICTs: Facilitating Caribbean Integration”. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71490 Researchers predict that by the end of this century, climate change could have cut tropical rainfall by 25 per cent in Central America and the Caribbean. http://tv.oneworld.net/article/view/129453/1/ http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/127959/1/ NEW YORK, Feb 20 (OneWorld) - Celebrations of Rene Preval's election as Haiti's new president could prove short-lived in the face of political restlessness and doubts about whether the international community will help heal poverty's open sores in the western hemisphere's poorest and most unequal society, analysts have warned.