that Haiti and Suriname would become full members of CARICOM and also foresee the possibility that in the distant future Venezuela may also become a member of CARICOM. As these events come to pass‚ the CCJ as it is currently structured will be shown to be obsolete. As currently structured‚ the court is designed for a purely Anglophone CARICOM‚ making provisions for all the peculiarities of the Anglophone region. Fundamentally‚ the CCJ is incongruous with the legal systems of Suriname and Haiti. Also
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Caribean Studies Handout #1 Early Migratory Movements of the Indigenous Peoples into the CaribeanHistory tels us that before the European invasion into the Americas there were pre- historic Amerindian groups who lived in the region. These groups setled in areas as far back as 500-300 BC to 7‚ 00 years ago. These peoples were the Ostionoids‚ Barancoids and the Saladoids who infiltrated the region from which you have the descendants of the Kalinagos‚ Tainos‚ Mayas‚ Aztecs and Incas. Archaeological
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The Caribbean region is located in the tropics and spans a broad arc of over 4000km from the Bahamas in the North to Guyana and Suriname in the south. There are thousands of islands and they vary in size and stretch and altogether they span an area from longitude 59 degrees west to 85 degrees west and range roughly from latitude 10 degrees north to latitude 25 degrees north. The islands all lie within an entirely salubrious environment‚ conducive to the growth of population and development of
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I. History of Brazil The Federative Republic of Brazil‚ located in South America‚ is the largest country in Latin America and the fifth-largest country in the world (Burns‚ 1993). The roots leading to the establishment of the federative republic began more than half a millennium ago. In 1500‚ a Portuguese expedition left Portugal headed for the southern tip of Africa‚ to sail around the Cape of Good Hope and then go north to India (Skidmore‚ 1999). However‚ the lead ship‚ commanded by Pedro Álvares
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is the fifth largest country in the whole world. Brazil is located in Eastern South America‚ bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It is slightly smaller than the U.S. It is bordered by Argentina‚ Bolivia‚ Columbia‚ French Guyana‚ Guyana‚ Paraguay‚ Peru‚ Suriname‚ Uruguay‚ and Venezuela. Brazil may be the fifth largest country but‚ it’s the sixth largest nation or population. The population in Brazil is 186 million. Women are expected to live about 76 year and men about 68 years old. Most of the northern
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Africa chapter 20 • Factories: forts and trading posts with resident merchants. • El Mina (1482): Most important factory in the heart of gold-producing region of the forest zone. • Nzigna Mvemba (r. 1507-1543): Ruler of Kongo. With help of missionaries brought the whole kingdom to Christianity. • Luanda: Permanent settlement of the Portuguese established in the south of the Kongo in the 1570s. Basis for Portuguese colony of Angola. • Royal African Company: Charted in 1660s to establish a monopoly
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Brief History of the Caribbean through Emancipation 1492 – When Queen Isabella of Spain sent Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean. His official mission was to discover a new trade right to Asia and “Christianize” the “heathers” who lived there. ▪ Christopher Columbus and the Spanish “conquistadores” who followed him made little secret of their real interest. ▪ When Columbus landed in the Bahamas and saw the native Arawaks adorned with gold trinkets‚ he was convinced that
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Location and Definitions of the Caribbean Origin of Caribbean — The word ‘Caribbean’ is said to be derived from the indigenous people’s name for themselves‚ ‘Carib’. The term ‘West Indies’ which is often used interchangeably with Caribbean is the name given to the region by Christopher Columbus in 1492. — As with the inexact name of the region so to is there little agreement on what area is included within the Caribbean. Different criteria are used to define the region.
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Global Macroeconomics and the Caribbean Business Environment Can small developing countries survive in a globalized environment? Can Small Developing Countries survive in a Globalized Environment? ABSTRACT This paper examined the arguments for globalization with respect to the survival of small island developing states primarily in the Caribbean region. Arguments for globalization focused on the development of new markets‚ free trade agreements‚ income generation and the building of human
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The murders took place at Fort Zeelandia‚ this is not just a coincidence. Back in the eighteenth century‚ a lot of torturing and murdering of slaves took place here as well. Those incidents still had a great impact on the Surinamese society even after slavery was officially forbidden. People always thought of Fort Zeelandia as a place of pain and misery. When the december murders took place here‚ it was also a reminder of the previous events that happened there. So the effect that the December murders
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