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		<title>Affordable Housing in Dominica</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The devastation of successive natural disasters over the past decade has tested the resolve of Dominicans. Although comparatively few in the Caribbean family are total strangers to natural disasters, the demand placed upon this generation of Dominicans to plan a massive rebuild multiple times during the past five years is among the most heart-wrenching regional stories; just the same as the success they’ve had in their rebuild is among its very best.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Charting a New Course for Ferries</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2020 11:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[All in the Caribbean family recognise the central importance of airplanes and cruise ships to the region’s tourism industry; and, in turn, the importance of passage by land, sea and air for regular travel and business generally. But despite the bustle of transport that’s visible in our cities and among our major transport hubs, there remains a ‘missing link’ in the fleet, and its absence is undermining our potential. Yes, ferries are already seen among the region but, with the right infrastructure upgrades, they would be more commonplace, and bring economic benefits.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Digging Into Sand Mining</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the Caribbean, effective conservation and utilisation of sand supplies cannot simply be a vague aspiration of the eco to-do list; it’s critical to the future viability of regional tourism, and also the physical territory of nations increasingly battling against an endless ocean that seeks to reclaim land. Despite this, states in this region have long wrestled with how best to define a proper sand management policy, especially when it has entailed hard choices between urgent economic need today and environmental protection for tomorrow. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>LATAM’s Most Influential Regional Organisations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In 2020 the postwar liberal consensus is being tested. Not since before World War II has the international community known a time when world leaders flirt with protectionism and isolationism so heavily. Multilateral, regional organisations cannot provide a ‘cure all’ to these challenges – indeed, among any organisation’s members can be those countries who are leading such a charge – but they do offer a strong community for nations committed to collective ideals and international co-operation. This is especially so in an era when longstanding and firmly established norms around free trade and Western security alliances are now being heavily scrutinised.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Maduro Seeks Salvation from the Private Sector</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rosneft Oil]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[In recent weeks a particular move by the disputed president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, has signified just how tenuous his grip on the nation’s top job has become. His petition to countrywomen that they pencil in giving birth to six children ‘for the good of the country’ and its repopulation efforts, evidences his desperation to maintain his grip on power. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Next Chapter in Canadian-Caribbean Trade</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When it comes to identifying new trading opportunities up north, the USA always serves as a starting point for the Caribbean family. Yet, as a nation that regularly ranks within the world’s top ten biggest economies, Canada is a powerhouse in its own right. It is a country that has had a long trading relationship with the Caribbean region, and one that wishes to grow stronger trading links with like-minded states in an international community currently in the grip of a protectionist fever not seen since the first half of the 20th century. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Small Island Developing States or  Big Ocean Developing States?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2020 14:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For Small Island Developing States (SIDS), being surrounded by the ocean can be an asset or a liability. Sustainable development ensures that being encircled by sea is indeed a virtue, and nations must leverage the sea around them in order to make the transition from SIDS, via Big Ocean Developing States (BODS), to Big Ocean Sustainable States (BOSS). But the path to becoming BOSS-level is not easy, nor clear-cut, and involves a journey that is replete with pitfalls. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Did the Coronavirus Expose the risks of CBI?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The emergence of the coronavirus in early January of this year has created immense anxiety globally, wreaked havoc on the tourism industry and driven home the immense difficulty for national governments in seeking to combat a threat within the modern international community. Just as Bill Gates (whose Gates Foundation has donated billions to health initiatives) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Green Energy Tensions In The Caribbean</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Caribbean understands that combatting climate change is a key challenge for the region. Indeed, by many measures it is the key challenge given the existential threat it poses. Even though Caribbean states as a whole account for a fractional amount of global CO2 emissions, it’s recognised that the capacity for regional governments to push for stronger global action on climate change depends upon them pursuing strong action within their own borders.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 Key Elections  to Watch in 2020</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Denzil Douglas]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The forthcoming months of 2020 will be a busy period for Caribbean elections. A number of these polls are ones where it will not be ‘business as usual’, given the profound changes in circumstances that have occurred between upcoming votes, and those cast prior. Here are five Caribbean elections to watch in 2020.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Caribbean Taps Into Podcasting Growth</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/the-caribbean-taps-into-podcasting-growth/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The region plays host to a wide variety of informative and dynamic podcasts. But like so many areas in the digital media landscape, the podcast industry is a story of rapid evolution, with the capacity for sudden change. In 2020 we are now seeing the emergence of the ‘next big shift’ in the landscape. So what does this mean for the future of podcasts within the region?]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">78704</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>The Canouan Rebrand</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Trump Monte Carlo Casino]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Caribbean’s tourism industry will always be in a state of perpetual competition between longstanding and established accommodation providers, and the newcomers who seek to stake their own claim. We see this battle play out daily at a local level between competing hoteliers, and nationally as the opening of a big, new hotel on one part of an island can naturally take away business from another part of it. But the scale and scope of recent activity on the St Vincent and Grenadines island of Canouan is a cut above the regular competition.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">78686</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Half Empty or Hall Full:  What’s Next for Caribbean Rum?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Businessweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bacardi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gin]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The production of rum is a key part of the cultural identity of the Caribbean. For generations, nations throughout the region have made rum for consumption at home and export abroad. Because of rum’s ubiquity and the sizeable industry that surrounds it within this locale, it’s seen as the region’s signature drink, in the same way as wine in Italy, or sake in Japan. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Coronavirus’ Impact  On the Caribbean</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Countries across the world are wrestling with the coronavirus outbreak. First detected in China, the virus has spread globally, but especially to Asian nations.]]></description>
		
		
		
		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">78571</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Three Nations Leading the  Caribbean’s Push to Go Green</title>
		<link>https://stluciastar.com/three-nations-leading-the-caribbeans-push-to-go-green/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed Kennedy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Businessweek]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Costa Rica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Renewable energy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a region threatened by some of climate change’s most harrowing consequences, the Caribbean must go green in future. This is a unifying goal recognised across the more than two dozen states that make up this part of the world. In looking beyond this general aspiration and into the in-depth pursuits of each nation, it’s clear that some, more than others, can stake a claim as leaders in pushing for a renewable energy future. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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