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Check Out Our New Blog Posts!
Dear Friends of the Canada-Caribbean Institute:
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This newsletter brings you a number of stories we hope you find interesting.
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The world has been shocked by the scale of the disaster in Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba and other parts of the Caribbean following the passage of Hurricane Melissa. The Government of Canada has stepped up with significant assistance. See our post below for information on trusted organizations who are able to ensure a financial donation is put to good use in the recovery.
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The big CCI news is that we have started planning our 2026 Research Symposium, to be held at the St. Augustine Campus of the The UWI in February 2026.
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Jamaica needs our help!
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Hurricane Melissa has left Jamaica in a difficult situation. With lives lost and lives upended, key infrastructure knocked down, and with agriculture and tourism threatened, the economic success story that was Jamaica is facing the huge challenge of rebuilding. See the document below to find trusted organizations and make a donation today. JTC Donor Engagement FlyerDownload
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OISE launches relief drive to support Caribbean communities in rebuilding efforts
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November 4, 2025 The Ontario Institute for Studies in Educatgion (OISE )community extends its heartfelt support to the people of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, and communities across the Caribbean as they courageously face Hurricane Melissa, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record. To our community members with friends, family, and colleagues throughout the affected …
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Barbados’ Field Medical Hospital To Assist Jamaica
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The Ministry of Health and Wellness NewsroomWednesday, November 12, 2025info@health.gov.bb The Barbados Defence Force’s (BDF) Field Medical Hospital will be deployed to Jamaica from November 18 to December 18, 2025, to provide emergency medical support, following the passage of Category 5 Hurricane Melissa last month. Chief of Staff of the BDF, Brigadier The Honourable Carlos Lovell, announced the mission, which …
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Caribbean Export and Canada promote fair trade through GRIT initiative launch in Dominica
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Dominica News Online - Friday, November 7th, 2025 A significant new milestone for women in Caribbean commerce was achieved yesterday, November 6, 2025, in Dominica as the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), in partnership with Global Affairs Canada (GAC), introduced GRIT – Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs Generating Resilient and Inclusive Trade at Barana Aute in the Kalinago Territory. The initiative seeks …
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Canada announces additional assistance and launches matching fund in response to Hurricane Melissa
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News release November 12, 2025 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada Today, the Honourable Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development), announced that Canada will match donations made to the Canadian Red Cross’s Hurricane Melissa Appeal. Every donation made by individuals to the Canadian Red Cross’s appeal retroactively from October 28, 2025, until November 24, will be matched, up to a total …
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No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap
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This is an excellent look at the huge challenge confronting the Caribbean. November 12, 2025 by Farah Nibbs Assistant Professor of Emergency and Disaster Health Systems, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Headlines have been filled with talk of the catastrophic power of Hurricane Melissa after the Category 5 storm devastated communities across Jamaica, Cuba and Haiti in October 2025. But to see this as a singular disaster …
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Call for Papers: IYARIC
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Colleagues at IYARIC, a peer-reviewed, graduate student-run journal at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean, York University, Toronto have requested that we help distribute their recent Call for Papers. The publication platforms Black, Caribbean, and Indigenous voices and scholarship. The IYARIC Journal has a current call for abstracts for their 2026 issue that may be of …
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Two more elections in CARICOM bloc
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By Bert Wilkinson, November 10, 2025 Two neighboring nations in the Eastern Caribbean are preparing to hold general elections before the end of the year, making 2025 one of the busiest years on record for polls, officials said. The latest is St. Lucia, where Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre addressed the nation late Sunday, naming Dec. 1 as the date …
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U of T Indigenous Research Network launches global research consortium
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The International Indigenous Research Consortium seeks to foster global collaboration and knowledge exchange on Indigenous-led research Caribbean researchers in the field of Indigenous research should connect with this consortium. Published: November 10, 2025 By Tina Adamopoulos TheIndigenous Research Network (IRN) at the University of Toronto is strengthening international partnerships by establishing the International Indigenous Research Consortium. In alignment with its 2022-2027 strategic plan, the …
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The UN is reinventing peacekeeping – Haiti is the testing ground
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November 11, 2025 Bulbul Ahmed PhD Candidate, University of Iowa; Bangladesh University of Professionals For decades, the United Nations has intervened in Haiti in a bid to address persistent political, economic and security crises. To date, all attempts have failed. Now, the international body is trying something new. On Sept. 30, 2025, the United Nations Security Council approved an expanded international …
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Remembrance Day
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Remembrance Day November 11, 2025 “Today, we honour the service of the brave women and men who answered the call. Those who sacrificed years away from loved ones, those who returned from combat forever changed, those who never came home. In an increasingly dangerous and divided world, remembrance is also vigilance. Our sovereignty and …
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UWI Scientists Co-Author Study That Finds Climate Change Enhanced Hurricane Melissa’s Intensity
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Scientists from The University of the West Indies (The UWI) have contributed to a new international rapid analysis which confirms that human-induced climate change made Hurricane Melissa more intense and destructive. The study, incorporating data from Jamaica and eastern Cuba, was conducted by the World Weather Attribution, an international collaboration that studies how climate change affects extreme weather. It shows that the atmospheric …
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Honouring Remembrance Week #4
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Forgotten Soldiers By: Antoinette Mercurio November 10, 2020 Imagine having to sit in a tank, shooting at soldiers, as it makes its way across trench warfare. Picture German soldiers running off in defeat as Canadian forces emerge from their tanks victorious. This is one of many stories School of Creative Industries professor T’hohahoken Michael Doxtater heard growing up, from family …
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Canada officially loses its measles elimination status
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Alanna Smith Health reporter Kristy Kirkup Health Reporter November 9, 2025 Canada has been stripped of its measles elimination status after failing to interrupt transmission within one year of an outbreak that continues to spread in parts of the country. The Public Health Agency of Canada said Monday it was notified by The Pan American Health Organization, a regional arm …
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At UWI free movement forum, alumnus PM Ralph Gonsalves says delays in solidifying regional integration may undermine the whole
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Dominica News Online - Friday, November 7th, 2025 Regional leaders and scholars convened at a recent Vice-Chancellor’s Forum hosted by The University of the West Indies (The UWI) to discuss critical issues surrounding free movement, the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME), and the broader Caribbean Regionalisation Project. The gathering took place on October 21, according to a press release, aimed …
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Honouring Remembrance Week #3
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How one artist honoured fallen soldiers by painting war’s aftermath By: Michelle LePage, November 07, 2025 More than a century after World War I ended, Remembrance Day still matters. Why? Because stories from those battlefields continue to teach us about sacrifice, resilience, empathy and the true cost of war. Director of TMU’s Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre (MLC) Professor …
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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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