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 More corporations are utilizing interest based bargaining, the outcome of this type of mediation can bring better results. In the right situation, it's an alternative to traditional collective bargaining with a process of joint problem solving. read more.. |
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 “In this the year of the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, we in CARICOM must pursue coherently in a focused, not episodic, way the legitimate demand for a full apology and reparations... read more.. |
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 This text concerns our climatological situation in the Caribbean. Since 2000, I have said that we in the Caribbean have wasted out time on "esoteric nebula" in such disregard as to have an ill-regard for those things which are critical to our survival. read more.. |
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 The old folks used to say "if you have patience you go see ants belly;" while our late Prime Minister Herbert Blaize put it another way, when he said that... "What goes around comes around." read more.. |
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 It’s all about dating, love, sex, friendship, and marriage - so let's talk. Email your relationship questions to my attention: Question from: “Single Mother of Five”, Dear Betty – I am a single mother, early thirties with five kids. read more.. |
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 As we continue to look skyward and wonder at the many faces of nature, we are presented with the ultimate challenge of building a safe environment and protecting our natural resources, which we hope lead to an acceptable quality of life. read more.. |
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| Among other things, the ACS manifests the political will of its Members to change the course of an old, fragmenting action, since the organisation regroups the geographical, populational and cultural similarities of the Greater Caribbean. read more.. |
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 In considering whether Belize should continue its present recognition of Taiwan or switch back to the Peoples Republic of China with whom it had diplomatic relations up to 1989, the Foreign Minister of Belize, Godfrey Smith, argues: read more.. |
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| Even though rank incompetence, kleptocracy and depraved indifference to human life characterized the governments of many post-colonial countries of the Commonwealth, black leaders invariably invoked "the legacy of British colonialism". read more.. |
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| The coup that ousted Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide on February 29, 2004 led very predictably to the worst human rights disaster in the Western Hemisphere over the following two years. read more.. |
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| We live in a world that’s gone mad. Trying to understand “crazy” makes us crazy. Trying to resolve the craziness is crazy making. I am not a scholar of resolving conflict. I am a scholar of crazy and consider myself relatively sane. read more.. |
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| On the basis, or principle, that the longest day must come to an end, I chose the above headline question, rather than the probability of, “Will it ever end?” And as this article develops, and the facts are revealed it would become clearer. read more.. |
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| It’s all about dating, love, sex, friendship, and marriage - so let's talk. Email your relationship questions to my attention. Question: “Thinking About Divorce” Dear Betty, I've been married over twenty years. read more.. |
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| The 12th Ordinary Meeting of the Ministerial Council of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) was convened in Guatemala on January 24-26, 2007, and was attended by 19 Member States and 2 Associate Members. read more.. |
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| The continuing dichotomy within the CARICOM over the Peoples Republic of China and Taiwan could begin to hurt the grouping which has been unable to establish a joint policy toward China, now the fourth largest economy in the world. read more.. |
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| The dynamics of race and gender relations have evolved to such a degree that philosophical declarations by social theorists about them are invariably specious. But, if intended only to stimulate debate in classrooms... read more.. |
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| If a white is attacked by blacks; even if the attack was brutal, it does not mean the suffering the white endured is equal with the suffering of blacks. Because the experience will not make him believe that he is a second class citizen. read more.. |
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| It's all about dating, love, sex, friendship, and marriage - so let's talk. Email your relationship questions to my attention. Question from: "Do I believe or not believe": Dear Betty – I'm a mother of 2 and still live with the children's father. read more.. |
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| Thirty-three years ago, on the 7th February 1974, the national flag of our independent nation state of Grenada, was hoisted on Fort George in the nation’s capital city, and the only “light” in the entire island on that night was at the said fort. read more.. |
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| Caribbean nationals died in the nine-eleven terror attack on the US. It is therefore significant that any strategy which is aimed at combating terrorism in any part of the world, would alert the interest of the Caribbean Community read more.. |
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 World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha talks will now be taken out of deep freeze. The announcement was made in Davos, Switzerland on January 27. The Alpine resort was the venue for the weekend gathering of some 30 trade ministers read more.. |
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| It must be a tough job being an Ambassador for the US in these times when virtually every government in the world, with the exception of Israel, feels that it is a phenomenal error for the US government to try to commit 21,500 more troops to Iraq. read more.. |
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| I was heartened when I read that the first Caribbean summit on HIV/AIDS was convened in St Croix. Given that this virus has been ravaging our people like a Biblical plague for years now, I could not help thinking that this summit was long overdue. read more.. |
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| He was murdered on January 14, 2005, shortly after finishing his lunch near his home in the Village de Dieu slum. The killing of Abdias Jean, a young Haitian journalist who reported from Haiti for WKAT radio in Florida, was quickly condemned by Amnesty International, read more.. |
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| An article on Haiti that appeared in Time magazine in January 1973 – at the end of the dictatorship of “Papa Doc” Duvalier and the commencement of his son “Baby Doc’s" harsh rule – states: “There is also a sound on the city streets that to most urban Americans is unfamiliar: laughter.” read more.. |
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| My parents immigrated to the United States shortly after World War II. Both of them were born in Croatia and my mother’s family moved to Austria when she was young. They brought with them a culture that was different. read more.. |
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| The Bahamas National Health Insurance program in its present form is financially unsustainable; and one can conclude that the Government must be reckless and irresponsible in its haste to implement it. read more.. |
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| At the beginning of a New Year expectations of the year ahead tend to be expressed in a colourful way; oftentimes without reflection on the forecasts, (or worse predictions) for the previous year that failed to come to fruition. read more.. |
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| In this topsy-turvy, or seemingly up-side-down world we have to live in nowadays, we cannot, and must not, simply take the position, that we are leaving it up to those in charge to do as they please, because politics is not our business. read more.. |
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| On December 20, 2006, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled: "Towards the Sustainable Development of the Caribbean Sea for present and future generations" (A/C.2/61/L.30). read more.. |
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| The heads of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States Authority, recently met in St Johns , Antigua to discuss a number of items on their agenda, including Ocean Governance. The authority is a sub-grouping of the Caribbean Community. read more.. |
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| “Dr Insulza is quite an idiot, a true idiot […] He’s playing the role of viceroy for the empire.” Echoing his inflammatory UN speech a few months back, in which he called President Bush the “devil” and on another occasion, “a donkey.” read more.. |
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| The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is calling on the Government of Guyana to withdraw the Casino Gambling Bill. The fundamental objection to the Bill is not that it seeks to license a hotel for the entertainment of cricket followers. read more.. |
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| It is welcome news that the Caribbean’s two major tourism organisations, the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) and Caribbean Hotels Association (CHA), are establishing the Caribbean Tourism Development Corporation (CTDC). read more.. |
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| Last year, I wrote a series of articles chronicling the extraterritorial prosecutions (and imprisonment), by US authorities, of online gambling executives who were operating out of Antigua and Costa Rica. read more.. |
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| In his book, Conflict Mediation Across Cultures, author David W. Ausburger often uses folktales to illustrate the process of mediation. Here then is a sample of a folktale from the Cape Verde Islands. read more.. |
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 From time to time we hear news items highlighting children’s poor behaviour at school, especially at secondary level. This can’t be solved in a day, but prevention is important, the foundations of mental health can be laid in childhood. read more.. |
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| It has been truthfully said that, in man’s quest for truth, questions will be constantly asked, some deep, some superficial, and many just plain silly. And in our public affairs, asking questions must be the best way to become well informed. read more.. |
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| The Caribbean is embarking on a new dimension of air travel both within the region and the United States. At a time when the 2007 CWC preparations have led to the creation of a Single Domestic Space for ten CARICOM nations. read more.. |
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| Anyone who has marketed or promoted tourism to the Caribbean knows that it is a tough business. Caribbean countries are competing amongst themselves and against many other countries around the world, read more.. |
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| International media reports this week indicate that there’s near universal outrage over the way Hugo Chavez has begun his reign as Venezuela’s president for life. And, of course, this alone is newsworthy. read more.. |
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| The rise of juvenile crime associated with gang membership is increasing at alarming rates. Throughout the Caribbean and South America, gang membership creates serious consequences to the socio-economic fabric of society. read more.. |
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| It is undeniable that the Greater Caribbean has made strides in expanding dialogue and political and cultural rapprochements among its member nations. However, 2006 has left us an agenda that must be addressed. read more.. |
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 In case you missed it, Caribbean people abroad achieved another milestone on the political scene. Caribbean-American Yvette Clarke on January 4, 2007 officially became a member of the 110th Congress. read more.. |
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 This week, Air Jamaica launches new daily flights to Barbados from JFK Airport in New York, signaling a giant step forward for travel and tourism in the Eastern Caribbean, in the wake of the winding up of BWIA West Indies Airways. read more.. |
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| As we look back at creation, whether from the symbolic or the realistic viewpoint, and obviously looking through the eyes of Christian believers, there comes a time when we are driven to question the Maker, in all His omnipotence. read more.. |
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| As we embark on the new chapter of 2007, in this millennium of many hopes and dreams, we are duty-bound to look ahead and actively plan the events in our lives that will propel us to our New Year's resolutions. read more.. |
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| The heads of government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries will meet shortly to decide how they could take their nations forward economically in a highly competitive global environment. read more.. |
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| On Tuesday, crackpot televangelist Pat Robertson ensured that no one would heed my predictions when he predicted – based on his most recent message from God – that: "...evil people will come to America..." read more.. |
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| When I was young, I remember the times I was bullied. It occurred when my mother would send me to the store to pick up a few things. I always had to walk past a group of young boys who would taunt and tease me. read more.. |
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| I suppose that being the believers many of us like to think we are, it is not too difficult, as we are entering another New Year, to again entertain hopes and really dream of, or imagine worthwhile changes in our lives for the New Year. read more.. |
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| It’s all about dating, love, sex, friendship, and marriage - so let's talk. Email your relationship questions to my attention. Question from: “Grandma with a guilty conscience.” Dear Betty – I broke up with my children's father... read more.. |
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 Some seven years after Haiti's bicentennial, and the bicentennial of the assassination of its founding father, it is fitting to stop, reflect and ponder on where Haiti has been, where it is now and where it is going. read more.. |
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| The way in which the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) is to be governed is an issue that governments continue to duck. For over fourteen years, there has been a blueprint for such joint governance. read more.. |
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| It is a curious thing that so many black Americans – who insist on calling themselves African Americans – know so little about their American heritage, and even less about their African ancestry. Alas, blacks throughout the Caribbean... read more.. |
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| The New Year allows us to stop, pause and reflect on our lives. Where are we going? How are we going to get there? What happens when our lives become so consumed by other tasks, that we ignore the people around us? read more.. |
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| In our Tri-Island state, since February 7, 1974, we are supposed to be operating the business of the people under a democratic system of government. And our model for so doing was derived from the tried and tested Westminster model. read more.. |
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| Christmas and New Year are festive times around the Caribbean. Here are some tips | |
