Barbados Nation Newspaper
US Department Of State Post Report
The physical education program at CIC includes soccer, basketball, track and field, ballet, volleyball, tennis, and martial arts. Other after school activities include drama, music, debate, service club, and Odyssey of the Mind, which promotes problem solving and divergent thinking skills. The school participates in the National Merit Scholar Program, the National Honor Society, the National Junior Honor Society, the Close-Up educational visit to Washington, and sponsors the annual South American Model United Nations conference attended by more than 200 students. CIC students also participate in the Model United Nations Assembly in The Hague, Holland. ... [Read More]
Introduction
Some worried that our new focus on the Arab world would leave us without time to address human rights and democracy elsewhere. In early 2002, the President announced creation of the Millennium Challenge Account, “a new compact for global development, defined by a new accountability for both rich and poor nations alike. Greater contributions from developed nations must be linked to greater responsibility from developing nations.” Nations that invest in their people’s education and health, promote economic freedoms and govern justly – defined by the prevalence of civil liberties, political rights, rule of law and a government’s accountability and effectiveness – will be rewarded. The Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) will rely on sound human rights reporting to evaluate conformity with basic standards of democratic governance and economic freedom. MCA will also provide another vehicle for reducing the gap between human rights ideals and actual practices. ... [Read More]
International Narcotics Control Strategy Reports
US DEPARTMENT OF STATEBUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERSINTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRAGEGY REPORTAPRIL 1994THE CARIBBEAN 173 Bahamas 175 Cuba 181 Dominican Republic 184 Guyana 189 Haiti 191 Jamaica 195 Netherlands Antilles and Aruba 200 Suriname 203 Trinidad and Tobago 206 Eastern Caribbean 209 Antigua and Barbuda 210 Barbados 210 Dominica 211 Grenada 211 St. Kitts and Nevis 212 St. Lucia 213 St. Vincent and the Grenadines ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
Grenada has a few local weekly publications that are confined to events occurring in Grenada and on other Caribbean islands. International news is often editorialized and takes a backseat to interisland gossip. Weekly newspapers are The Grenadian Voice, The Informer, The Grenadian Guardian (GULP), The Grenada Tribune (NDC), and The Indies Times (MBPM). The Embassy receives the International Herald Tribune from London and an occasional U.S.A. Today out of Miami as well as Barbadian newspapers that are received sporadically and are many days late. The current Latin American editions of Time and Newsweek are sold in bookshops and supermarkets; certain popular U.S. magazines (Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, McCall’s, and New Woman) are also available but are at least 1-month old and stocks of these are unreliable. ... [Read More]
IEW Events > The Americas
The Fulbright Commission will sponsor a number of events, including a conference on the impact of international education in a globalized world featuring a panel of Argentine and U.S. Fulbrighters sharing their thoughts on the benefits of international education and exchanges. This event is co-sponsored with La Nacion newspaper. The Fulbright Commission will take part in a students' fair of International Organizations at the University of Belgrano. This fair will provide interested students with information on grants and graduate studies in the U.S.; other events will be held simultaneously in Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, La Pampa and Córdoba — the host cities to the U.S. of the Department of State's Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program (while this is taking place, 22 Argentine elementary and high school principals are traveling through the U.S. on a reciprocal exch ... [Read More]
2002
1111--12/13/02 Extending Democracy in the Americas; Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, U.S. National Coordinator for the Summit of the Americas; Remarks to the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Washington, DC ... 1111--03/23/02 Radio Address by the President to the Nation; George W. Bush, President; Remarks to the Nation; Washington, DC ... 1111--06/20/02 Peace and Security in Colombia; Lino Gutierrez, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs; U.S. Institute of Peace, International Crisis Group; Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC ... [Read More]
Unfettered Press: The Center for ForeignJournalists
Winship is one of the trio of founders of the center and nowserves as chairman of its board. The other two are James D.Ewing, a former publisher of small-town daily and weeklynewspapers and vice-chairman of the group, and George A. Krimsky,a former foreign correspondent and editor for the AssociatedPress worldwide news service, currently president of CFJ. To helpthem carry out the mission of the center, they have tapped anadvisory board of top-notch journalists from around the world,including George Mbugguss, former group managing editor of theNation Newspapers in Kenya; Cheong Yip Seng, editor-in-chief ofSingapore's Straits Times; Harold Hoyte, editor-in-chiefof The Nation in Barbados; and Katharine Graham, chairmanof the Washington Post Company in the United States. ... [Read More]
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