Caribbean and C Guide - Resources and Review

Directory of Caribbean information including education, government, news, business, sport and entertainment. Also features weather forecasts and tourist information.
 
Aims to provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet world, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America. Includes extensive lists of resources about countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean, browsable by country or subject.
 
Regular FAO report, which asserts that many poor countries have seen their prospects for food security further improve because of their success in creating a policy environment conducive to sustained economic and agricultural growth. Although economic and food security problems remain serious in Africa, there are improvements in many areas, while a number of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean have seen a good performance of the agricultural sector. The report includes regional overviews, detailed reviews of certain countries, and a special chapter on the agroprocessing industry. Online reports available for 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1998.
 
Tables detailing the languages spoken in the countries of North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. Estimates of population currently speaking each language are included.
 
Monthly exploration of the art of African America, Caribbean America, Afro
Latin America including Brazil and Polynesia. Links to artists, collectors, galleries, libraries, museums, exhibitions, publications, and a directory of national fine art.
 
An RSLP funded project aiming to identify and map national research resources for Caribbean studies, and the history of Black and Asian people in Britain. Outlines project activities, progress reports, and news and events. A fully searchable database and subject gateway is due to be launched in May 2002.
 
Information about the independent research and publishing organisation which works to broaden public understanding of social, economic justice and human rights issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes an online bookshop, and information on embassies, languages, music and travel.
 
Resource designed to help travellers plan every aspect of a trip to the Caribbean. Includes links to official material on accommodation, eating out, festivals, history and culture, music, shopping, and watersports, for a wide range of destinations.
 
World Health Organization regional office for Latin America and the Caribbean. Offers a range of information on health in the member nations.
 
A regional, electronic hydrometeorological data network for South America, Central America, and the Caribbean. Regional political maps, monthly, time series and climatological hydrometeorological data sets, and monthly temperature and precipitation data sets are freely available. Presented in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
 
Group of indigenous peoples throughout the Caribbean and the Diaspora whose role is to protect their cultural heritage and spiritual traditions. Includes official documentation such as congressional records and petitions to support Taino rights, and an archive of the group's newsletter The Voice of the Taino People.
 
The Atlantis Project is dedicated to the goal of establishing a new country named Oceania. This country will be devoted to the value of freedom, and will first exist as a sea city in the Caribbean.
 
Set of political and relief maps produced by the CIA covering Canada, all the countries in Central and South America and the Caribbean.
 
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