Minister of Foreign Affairs off to Fortieth General Assembly of the Organisation of American States

NASSAU, The Bahamas – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs the Hon Brent Symonette will lead a Bahamian delegation to the Fortieth General Assembly of the Organisation of American States in Lima, Peru from June 6-8, 2010. Mr

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Minister of Foreign Affairs off to Fortieth General Assembly of the Organisation of American States

Haiti: Controversial Statistics

The Haitian Blogger contends that, contrary to some mainstream media messages, “Haiti does NOT have the ‘worst HIV infection rate in the region'.”

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2009 Human Rights Practices Report on The Bahamas

The following is a United States Department of State Human Rights Report on The Bahamas done by their Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labour. The following can be found on the United States Department of State website: www.state.gov “The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is a constitutional, parliamentary democracy with a population of approximately 342,400, including an estimated 30,000 undocumented Haitians.

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Ambassador Sears at Commonwealth Mid-Term Review Meeting

Nassau, Bahamas — Ambassador Joshua Sears, Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs left the country, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, to attend the Commonwealth Mid-Term Review of Universal Periodic Review Process, in London from March 11 – 12. One of the primary instruments of the Human Rights Council established by the United Nations General Assembly in March 2006 is to monitor and review the Human Rights Records of 192 Member States of the International Community.

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Bahamas, Haiti: Solidarity

A new website is launched by “a group of Bahamian webizens who hope to mobilize in support of a realistic and sensible immigration policy with respect to Haitians and their children.”

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Cuba: The Revolution, 50 Years After

By Janine Mendes-Franco January 1st 2009 marked the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution . Bloggers from across the region took note of the occasion, with the voices of the Cuban diaspora being some of the most outspoken. My big, fat, Cuban family remembers the experience of being forced to flee her country: January 1, 1959.

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Caribbean: Castro – End of an Era?

By Janine Mendes-Franco Havana from Habana Libre, courtesy Caribbean Free Photo The buzz in the regional blogosphere for the last twenty-four hours has undoubtedly been the retirement of Cuban leader Fidel Castro after nearly 50 years at the helm of the socialist republic. The announcement hardly came as a surprise , what with the last couple of years of anti-Castro bloggers closely following reports of the leader's deteriorating health and speculating as to whether or not he was even alive .

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Free Kareem: The Caribbean joins in

By Georgia Popplewell The Caribbean blogosphere tends to focus on internal matters, but the plight of Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Suleiman struck a chord nevertheless with a few bloggers, including Cuban-American journalist Marc Masferrer, who posts frequently on human rights issues relating to Cuba.

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