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Tents beyond tents

A cartoon introduction to life in the camps in and around Port-au-Prince.

Filed in: Disasters Haiti

Haiti: where did all the money go?

More than $10 billion was raised worldwide for Haiti after the earthquake. But, two years on, what have NGOs done with the cash? Nick Harvey investigates.

Filed in: Development Disasters Haiti NGOs

Haiti two years on: beyond relief, beyond belief

Haiti is not just recovering from the earthquake but from the political and economic interventions of recent decades, as Phillip Wearne explains.

Filed in: Development Disasters Haiti NGOs

Haiti’s decision to rearm is an obstacle to peace, development and freedom

Costa Rica’s former President Oscar Arias Sanchez – who was instrumental in abolishing his own country’s army – explains why.

Filed in: Costa Rica Haiti Military

Haiti

A profile of the troubled Caribbean nation.

Filed in: Haiti

Revolution vs globalization

Revolution vs globalization Still squeezed, still embattled, still hanging in there: John Ripton asks how Castro’s Cuba will fit into the new world economy.

Filed in: Cuba Globalization

Bahamas

Filed in: Bahamas

Cuba Hurts

Cuba hurts - and so does Eduardo Galeano, following the spate of executions and arrests in Havana.

Filed in: Cuba

Just chocolate

Grenada’s revolutionary fair trade

Filed in: Caribbean Fair Trade

Plain tales of development

Success, like beauty is in eyes of the beholder. Three very different countries who can claim some measure of success are looked at by three very different correspondents: LAOS by a special correspon­dent, CUBA by RONALD BUCHANAN, TAIWAN by RICHARD HANSON

Filed in: Cuba Development Laos Taiwan

  • June 4, 2008
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Antigua and Barbuda

When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation. Wilmoth Daniel, his deputy, explained that they found ‘the drawers open – all the files were removed like a thief in the night … What a shame of those individuals in authority to [remove] all those files, the soul and heart of the country.’

Filed in: Antigua

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