(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

There are five local universities namely The University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) the University of Technology, Jamaica formerly The College of Art Science and Technology (CAST) the Northern Caribbean University formerly West Indies College the University College of The Caribbean and the International University of the Caribbean.

The Leeward Antilles (Dutch Benedenwindse Eilanden) are a chain of islands in the Caribbean specifically, the southerly islands of the Lesser Antilles (and, in turn, the Antilles and the West Indies) along the southeastern fringe of the Caribbean Sea, just north of the Venezuelan coast of the South American mainland.

The Bocas del Toro Archipelago is a group of islands in the Caribbean Sea in northwest Panama.

We have a common currency for eight of the eastern Caribbean countries, called the Windward and the Leeward Islands.

And that's more or less the story of the coral reefs of the Caribbean, and increasingly, tragically, the coral reefs worldwide.

Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner s political fortunes.

However, the stories of the Loogaroo are widespread through the Caribbean Islands and Louisiana in the United States.

Ms. Bethel (Bahamas), speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), said that Haiti was of major interest to the Caribbean region.

In addition to the environment outlook reports, UNEP also launched four GIWA regional reports on the Indian Ocean islands, Caribbean Sea small islands, Caribbean islands, and Pacific islands.

It was recognised as a World Heritage Site on 4 April 1995, a distinction it shares with four other Caribbean islands.

These are broken down into three geographic regions the Caribbean the Pacific and Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Sea (AIMS).

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles Island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

With an area of , Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola.

The Bahamas, along with its Caribbean Community partners, has consistently expressed its grave concerns regarding the threat posed to the security and environmental and economic sustainability of the small island developing States of the region by the trans shipment of nuclear waste through the Caribbean Sea.

Hamilton was a colorful character, born out of wedlock, raised in the West Indies, and captain of an artillery company in America s revolutionary war.

Rogers had been sent to the Bahamas to address the problem of pirates in the Caribbean who had started to attack and steal from British ships.

The Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Expert presenter on mutual legal assistance at the 1999 UN Drug Control Program University of the West Indies symposium for Caribbean Judges

Expert adviser and presenter at the 1999 United Nations Drug Control Programme University of the West Indies Caribbean regional conference for prosecutors and financial investigators

The first inhabitants of the islands now known as The Bahamas were the Lucayans, an Arawakan speaking Taino people, who arrived between about 500 and 800 from the islands of the Caribbean.

The Territory of the United States Virgin Islands1 is located in the eastern part of the Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles south east of Miami and 45 miles east of Puerto Rico.

In addition, there are descendants of immigrants who came from other Caribbean islands, including St. Kitts and Nevis, Antigua, St. Vincent, Montserrat, Tortola, St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Guadeloupe.

Throughout the seventeenth century, the Dutch made gains by establishing trading colonies and outposts in the region and in the neighboring Caribbean islands under the banner of the Dutch West India Company.

The Committee expresses concern at the closure of the Centre for Multiethnic Studies at the Barbados campus of the University of the West Indies which was tasked to research race and ethnicity in the Caribbean.

On June 3, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over the Atlantic slave trade, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America.

Regrettably, he said, the Caribbean had again suffered badly from hurricanes and, in the context of the Territories, he mentioned the devastation caused by hurricane Ivan to the Cayman Islands, despite good local contingency planning.

Regrettably, he said, the Caribbean had again suffered badly from hurricanes and, in the context of the Territories, he mentioned the devastation caused by hurricane Ivan to the Cayman Islands, despite good local contingency planning.

The Bermuda national football team is the national team of Bermuda and is controlled by the Bermuda Football Association.

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In February, Ecuador s president, Rafael Correa, declared that if Cuban President Raúl Castro were not invited to the Summit, the ALBA countries (Cuba, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and some of the Caribbean islands) would not attend.

Anguilla is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, an associate member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Association of Caribbean States, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community and Common Market.

The Maldives and a host of Pacific Island states will disappear our twenty first century Atlantis.

The Leeward Islands are a group of islands in the West Indies.

There are also several uninhabited islands to the north of the Loyalty Islands.

The Caribbean islands all have a similarly high proportion of their citizens residing in the US and depend as much as Mexico on remittances.

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