The Council on Hemispheric Affairs is an independent research and information organization that aims to promote the common interest of the hemisphere, raise the visibility and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational and constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America. It has published a series on Chiquita's role in the banana wars...
s Fairtrade boom hasn't helped slum-dwelling Haitian migrant workers Like many young Dominicans, Federico left for the US when he finished school to look for work, ending up in a Spanish store in New York. After 20 years working seven days a week he grew tired of the long hours and yearned for his homeland and the tropical climate of the Caribbean. He had heard about the booming banana trade with the...
s small island developing states are informally competing with each other to be the first to ditch fossil fuels and embrace clean energy. A new United Nations analysis of the most recent energy plans of 52 low lying poor countries - traditionally heavily dependent on imports of petrol and oil - shows the Caribbean island of Dominica leading the world with plans to become carbon "negative" by 2020....
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Simon Rawles hears how fair trade rules are helping remaining banana growers in St Lucia, St Vincent, Dominica and Grenada recover from a hurricane that devastated crops in 2010 Simon Rawles Noah Payne-Frank ...
s well-known obsession to keep exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide out of Haiti and Haitian affairs. ( On Thursday, Aristide issued a public letter in which he reiterated "my readiness to leave today, tomorrow, at any time" from South Africa for Haiti, because the Haitian people "have never stopped calling for my return" and "for medical reasons", concerning his eyes.) In a 8 June 2005 meeting...
s empire emerged after the botched September raid, which netted several cars, including an armoured Mercedes Benz with $4.6 million cash inside, and a laptop computer full of evidence. With leads on several new aliases, police intensified the search. Six of his properties were confiscated – among them a million-dollar apartment in the Dominican resort area of Puerto Plata and a ranch outside Santo...
re moving back… Eustace Maxim thought I might be the cable technician. An appointment had been made for no definite time, so there was nothing to do but wait. But from the vantage point of his veranda in Jimmit, with its panoramic view of the Caribbean Sea, there are worse places you can watch the world go by. When he thinks of what he'd be doing now if he'd retired in Plaistow, east London, he says,...
s grammar school. Take a short trip towards the West Coast Road and you'll pass the Princess Margaret hospital. All the tropes of postcolonial nationhood are here. The Queen smiles from the notes while towns called Trafalgar and Portsmouth pepper the map. But these historical markers belie a dramatic shift in allegiance in this Caribbean island, which only gained independence from Britain 31 years...
peace camp' designed to foster understanding between Haitian and Dominican youths has been set up, with support from the NGO Plan . It gives children like Junior, who often work full-time, a chance to relax and play My name is Junior and I am 14 years old. I live with my grandmother, who takes care of me because my mother and father are dead. When I cross the border to work, the military insult me...
s first woman PM, she led Dominica for 15 years The world first took notice of Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, the Caribbean's first woman prime minister, when she stood shoulder to shoulder with President Reagan in the White House in 1983. As head of the tiny, mountainous island of Dominica, and chairman of the regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States, Charles, who has died aged 86, had invited...
s Carib Indians has attacked plans to portray the group as cannibals in the Disney sequel to the 2003 blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean. Dominica's government has said the US studio is planning to use the tiny island as a location. Several hundred Dominicans have applied to be extras, including some Caribs. Carib chief Charles Williams said recent discussions with Disney producers revealed "there...
father of the nation' he brought forth an era of social and political change in Dominica Edward Le Blanc, who has died aged 81, was chief minister and premier of Dominica from 1961 to 1974. He was among that generation of eastern Caribbean leaders who, as pioneers of self-government in their island states, are associated with an era of major social and political change. Although perhaps most content...
Nature Island' On the west coast of Dominica, the dazzlingly green "Nature Island of the Caribbean", the village of Bioche consists of a cluster of houses tucked into a rocky shoreline. There, where fishermen take to sea in small wooden pirogues, the 22 members of the St Peter's Fisheries Cooperative can boast a community hall, store room, freezer and office, funded with a small amount of British aid...
s richest countries have flocked here brandishing open cheque books, suitcases stuffed with cash - and, in some cases, muttering dark threats. The Caribbean nation may be home to fewer than 70,000 people, but it has one asset that other countries are prepared to pay big money for: a vote on the international body that sets the rules for commercial hunting of whales. With that vote, Dominica has a voice...
s electoral win last January felt that he could somehow re-invent that legacy. They also hoped - as did Douglas himself - that his international connections would bring benefits to his banana-dependent island. His background was not typical of Caribbean leaders of his generation. He was neither from the light-skinned elite nor the landless poor. His father had been a rich landowner, albeit from humble...