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Dear Friends of the Canada-Caribbean Institute:
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We look forward to sharing developments in the Canada-Caribbean space with you over the coming months.
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Virtual Panel: Canada-CARICOM Relations in the "Trump Era"
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Save the date: May 5, 2025 4:00-5:30 pm EDT International Relations have been thrown into turmoil as a result of the Trump Administration's approach to an "America First" agenda. U.S. foreign aid is being dramatically reduced; U.S. tariff policy has ended the rules based trading system and will increase prices; U.S. pressure is being exerted to change an array of …
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Reparatory Justice in the International System: Panel Discussion
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Save the date, April 10, 2025 6:00 - 7:15pm EDT The profile of the global movement for reparatory justice for the trans-Atlantic slave trade is rising. Led by the Caribbean Community (Caricom), which issued a Ten Point Plan for Reparatory Justice in 2013, the issues are being debated in academic and policy circles, and increasingly in the context of international …
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Caribbean rum grapples with new Trump tariffs
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April 5, 2025 The Caribbean rum industry is bracing for economic turbulence after the United States imposed a 10 per cent tariff on imports from Barbados and other CARICOM nations, an industry leader has told Barbados TODAY. The move is said to threaten the profitability of the region’s premium rum producers and is straining longstanding trade arrangements. Chief executive officer …
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Lunch & Learn: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Across Borders
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Lunch & Learn: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) Across Borders April 15, 2025 at 12pm EST via MS Teams. Please RSVP by writing to Anita.Acai@georgebrown.ca Colleagues from George Brown College and the University of Guyana invite interested CCI participants in the Caribbean and Canada to a special Lunch and Learn. We will hear from Medeba Uzzi from the University of Guyana …
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Artist Conversation: Contemporary Art from Guyana and the legacy of Denis Williams
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Goldfarb Gallery: Thursday, April 10, 2025, from 6 to 7:30 pm featuring artist Sandra Brewster and curator Ohene Koama In the Pavilion Denis Williams, 1923–98, was a seminal visual artist, anthropologist, educator, and novelist. Born and raised in Guyana, he lived and worked across the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa. One of the first Black artists to achieve critical acclaim in …
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What will Trump Tariffs mean for the Caribbean?
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Alicia Nicholls on what the Caribbean might expect from Trump Tariffs. http://caribbeantradelaw.com/2025/04/04/us-liberation-day-tariffs-what-impact-for-the-caribbean/
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Investing in Creativity: The Role of an Arts and Cultural Innovation Council
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A post from "Caribbean Authors". https://caribbeanauthors.wordpress.com/2025/04/05/investing-in-creativity-the-role-of-an-arts-and-cultural-innovation-council/
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Statement from the Chair of CARICOM | Impact of the Global Crises on the Caribbean
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April 4, 2025 Good day. I speak to all our Caribbean brothers and sisters today, not as the Prime Minister of Barbados, but in my capacity as chair of the Caribbean Community. Our world is in crisis. I will not sugarcoat it. These are among the most challenging of times for our region since the majority of our members gained …
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CARICOM Protocol to Enhance Cooperation receives another signatory
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April 3, 2025 Jamaica has signed the CARICOM Protocol to Amend the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas establishing the Caribbean Community, including the CARICOM Single Market and Economy, to allow Enhanced Cooperation among Member States and address Related issues. This Protocol on Enhanced Cooperation, which CARICOM Heads of Government adopted at the Thirty-Third Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of …
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Caribbean nations will be hit hard by new Trump tariffs. One diplomat wants a review
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Story by Jacqueline Charles As President Donald Trump launches a global trade war by imposing sweeping double-digit tariffs on major trading partners, Caribbean governments are trying to understand what it means for their already vulnerable economies, while bracing themselves for the ripple effects. “We need to work these things out,” Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Stuart Young said Thursday during a …
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Caribbean countries react to new US tariffs
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April 3, 2025 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Caribbean countries were on Thursday sizing up the magnitude of the sweeping tariffs announced by United States (US) President Donald Trump on their respective economies with some indicating that they would be seeking to hold talks with Washington on reducing the impact of the new taxes. Trump on Wednesday announced far-reaching new tariffs …
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About the the Canada-Caribbean Institute (CCI)
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The CCI is a collaboration between Caribbean and Canadian universities and colleges. The mission of the Institute is to provide a forum:
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to connect academic institutions, scholars, the business and public sectors, civil society, the cultural and diaspora communities
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to inform and encourage collaboration across Canada and the Caribbean to advance important social, environmental, and economic issues that are vital to the shared prosperity and advancement of both regions; and
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to identify impediments and opportunities related to such progress.
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For more information please visit our website
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