by chloe | Feb 26, 2015 | Canada & the Caribbean, Regions
Originally posted on Caribbean News Now. by Sir Ronald Sanders, ICWS Senior Research Fellow US commentators are predicting the death of PetroCaribe, the Venezuelan oil initiative in the Caribbean, and the ascendancy of United States as the dominant player in the...
by chloe | Dec 16, 2014 | Canada & the Caribbean
Join us at the launch of Creole Music of the French West Indies, A Discography on 23 January 2015 at 6.00pm The biguine is a genre of rhythm-based music and song that probably originated in Martinique, and epitomises black Creole music from the French Antilles. The...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 4, 2014 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Mandy Banton, Senior Research Fellow, ICWS; formerly of the UK National Archives Despite rumours and half-truths long in existence, the official line that no locally created records of former colonial governments were transferred to London at independence was...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Aug 13, 2013 | Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights
By Sir Ronald Sanders KCMG AM, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies and a former Caribbean diplomat In 1838, British slave owners in the English-Speaking Caribbean received £11.6 billion in today’s value as compensation for the emancipation...
by commonwealth-oral-history-project | Apr 23, 2013 | Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand & the Pacific, Canada & the Caribbean, Human Rights, Uncategorized
By the Human Rights Consortium, School of Advanced Study, University of London Earth Day was established in 1970. In the same year, the term ‘ecocide’ was first recorded at the Conference on War and National Responsibility in Washington. At the 1970 conference...
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