Slaves in Brazil
Slavery in Brazil
Slavery, A Modern-Age Slur on a Country Thriving in Prosperity. Reports of Brazil as a nation thriving with a strong economy growing healthily, cause both envy and intrigue to hang…
Caribbean Kids
High Cost of Youth Risky Behavior
Many Caribbean youth are doing reasonably well. They live in loving and caring families, attend school and are involved in various social activities in their communities. The health and well-being…
Human Resources Education
Human Resources Key to Economic Progress
The quality of human resources has a strong influence on the ability of societies, enterprises and governments to properly identify and analyse problems, to realistically and imaginatively envisage the future…
Haiti Development
Haiti’s Tortuous Development
Long before the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the country had been plagued with problems. Haiti, with some eight million people, is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere,…
Haiti Care
Haiti AIDS Patients Care Continues
Since the January 12, 2010 earthquake, the Haitian Group for Studies in Karposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (GHESKIO) in addition to supporting a field surgical hospital and a refugee camp…
Stop AIDS
Holistic Approach to HIV/AIDS Vulnerable Groups
The scale of the HIV and AIDS epidemic exceeded expectations since it was identified 20 years ago. Globally, an estimated 36 million people are currently living with HIV, and some…
Combat HIV AIDS
Caribbean Media Combat HIV/AIDS
It is widely accepted that one of the most effective ways to respond positively to HIV/AIDS and ensure behavior change is through the acceptance and dissemination of accurate information. It…
Haiti Earthquake
UN Doctors Abandon Haiti Victims
CNN reported yesterday that the United Nations ordered all its doctors, nurses and all other UN staff to leave their emergency care duty stations in Port au Prince, one of…
Caribbean PMTCT
Caribbean Strides to Prevent HIV/AIDS
Lorna Hamilton Henry is an HIV and AIDS activist in the Caribbean. She is also very open about her HIV status and advocates for and behalf of all persons living…
Haiti Earthquake 2010
UN Haiti Relief, Recovery, Development
Calling for UN Immediate Relief and Recovery for Haiti. What is there to say about this tragedy? What to do? How to get there? As a Caribbean national having grown…
Women Activisim
Women Activism in Emerging Economies
In Trinidad, 2009, two books were written regarding a nascent activist movement against the plan of the government for smelter in southern lands, untouched forest since the time of Columbus.…