Caribbean Organization

1962 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 881-882 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
French Guiana ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
Joint Declaration ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Government

The Agreement for the Establishment of the Caribbean Organization, Article V (2), stated that the agreement would enter into force on signature of a joint declaration to that effect by the signatory governments following deposit of instruments of approval or acceptance by the signatory governments and after the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Commission had received notification from not less than six of the prospective members of the Organization. It was announced in February 1961 that the Secretary-General had received formal notification from six prospective members, who had accepted the obligations imposed by the Statute of the Caribbean Organization and elected to become members. These were: France for the departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; Surinam; the Netherlands Antilles; British Guiana; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands of the United States. The government of the British Virgin Islands later notified the Secretary-General of its intention to join the Organization and became a member on May 31, 1962.

Caribbean Organization

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 1070-1073
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Caribbean

The Caribbean Council held its fifth and last meeting in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, from November 30 to December 4, 1964. Attending the meeting were delegates from France on behalf of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; the Netherlands Antilles; Surinam; the British Virgin Islands; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; and the United States Virgin Islands. Representatives of Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, and St. Vincent, countries enjoying special observer status, attended the meeting. Also at the meeting were observers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Caribbean Commission

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 215-216 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
West Indies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The West ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
The Caribbean

A special session of the West Indian Conference convened on July 28, 1959, in St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, to consider revision of the agreement which established the Caribbean Commission in October 1946. The delegates were welcomed by Mr. John Merwin, Governor of the Virgin Islands, who referred to the proposed revision for the transfer of control to local governments as an exciting new concept which would witness the withdrawal from active membership of the metropolitan powers and the taking over of these functions by the non-self-governing territories and possessions. Before starting deliberations on the successor body, delegates went on record in support of a continuation of regional cooperation in the area through some machinery similar to the Caribbean Commission, the good work of which was unanimously acclaimed. After several days of discussion and working in committees, the Conference accepted a Statute for a new Caribbean Organization to succeed the present Caribbean Commission, agreeing that it should be submitted to the governments concerned. The statute gave the Organization consultative and advisory powers and defined the areas of its concern as being those social, economic, and cultural matters of common interest in the Caribbean area. Eligible for membership were the Republic of France for the Departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique; the Netherlands Antilles; Surinam; the Bahamas; British Guiana; British Honduras; British Virgin Islands; the West Indies; Puerto Rico; and the Virgin Islands. The governing body of the new organization would be the Caribbean Council, which would hold annual meetings and to which each member would be entitled to nominate one delegate. The Organization was to come into being after an agreement with the members of the present Caribbean Commission—namely, the governments of France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States—for its establishment had been ratified. Following an offer from the government of Puerto Rico to contribute 44.3 percent of the total budget on the understanding that the new Organization would have its headquarters in that country, the Conference agreed on the following apportionment of costs to cover its proposed budget: France, $50,560; Netherlands Antilles, $24,490; Surinam, $19,750; British Guiana, $11,760; the West Indies, $44,240; Puerto Rico, $140,000; and the Virgin Islands, $25,200. As an interim step designed to facilitate the transition, the Conference recommended that the Commission appoint a working group of experts to examine the problems which would arise from the change-over, and to give its attention as well to the task of formulating guiding principles for the work of the Organization.

Caribbean Commission

1958 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-154
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
University Of Puerto Rico ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Governmental Institutions ◽  
Administrative Expenses ◽  
The University

The 24th meeting of the Caribbean Commission was held in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, the Virgin Islands, from May 22 to May 28, 1957, under the chairmanshipof Mr. N. L. Mayle (United Kingdom). The report of the Central Secretariat, submitted by the Secretary-General, was considered and approved. The United States section reported that negotiations were under way for the continuation and expansion of the Caribbean Training Program. The Puerto Rican government proposed that it assume all of the administrative expenses of the program, which had been financed by the International Cooperation Administration, in order to coordinate more effectively the facilities of the University of Puerto Rico with governmental institutions.

Life Assurance in the Former British West Indies.

1971 ◽  
Vol 97 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 251-295
Author(s):  
M. M. de Souza ◽  
A. Farncombe
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
British West Indies ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
British Guiana ◽  
Leeward Islands ◽  
Dependent Relationship ◽  
British Honduras ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
British Colonies

The Caribbean is usually taken to include the number of widely scattered islands in the Caribbean Sea, as well as four neighbouring mainland territories which, for historical reasons, are closely associated with one or other of the island groups. The islands comprise: three Republics—Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; three former British Colonies which have become independent countries within the Commonwealth during the last ten years, Jamaica (1962), Trinidad and Tobago (1962), and Barbados (1966), and a number of other islands which continue to have some level of dependent relationship with one or other of the ‘metropolitan’ countries including Britain (the Windward and Leeward Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Bahamas); France (Martinique and Guadeloupe), the Netherlands (Curaçao, Aruba, Bonaire), and the United States of America (Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands). The Mainland Territories include the independent Commonwealth country Guyana (formerly British Guiana and independent since 1966), French Guiana, Surinam (Dutch Guiana), and British Honduras.

Caribbean Organization

1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-316 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Secretary General ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
The Bahamas ◽  
Caribbean Area ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Anglo American

The Caribbean Organization, a new organization for economic and social cooperation in the Caribbean area, was created under an agreement signed by representatives of the United Kingdom, the United States, France, and the Netherlands in Washington, D. C, on June 21, 1960. The new organization was to supercede the Caribbean Commission founded in 1946 by the same four signatory powers, which was in turn the successor to the wartime Anglo- American Caribbean Commission. The Caribbean Organization, reportedly set up as the result of the wishes of the people of the area and in light of their new constitutional relationships, was designed to remove the taint of colonialism attached to the paternal structure of the Caribbean Commission. Although the four signatories of the agreement were members of the Caribbean Commission, only France, representing the three French Overseas Departments of French Guiana, Guadeloupe, and Martinique, was eligible for membership in the new organization. Membership in the Caribbean Organization was to be open to the following: the Netherlands Antilles, Surinam, the Bahamas, British Guiana, British Honduras, the British Virgin Islands, the British West Indies, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands of the United States, in addition to France. Any of the eligible prospective members could accede to membership in the organization by notifying the Secretary- General of the organization or the Secretary- General of the Caribbean Commission. The statute of the organization, annexed to the agreement for its establishment, included in the purposes of the organization social, cultural, and economic matters of common interest to the Caribbean area, particularly in the fields of agriculture, communications, education, fisheries, health, housing, industry, labor, music and the arts, social welfare, and trade.

Paracoccus marginatus. [Distribution map].

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Central America ◽  
Manihot Esculenta ◽  
Carica Papaya ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink Hemiptera: Coccoidea: Pseudococcidae Feeds on many hosts but prefers cassava (Manihot esculenta) and pawpaw (Carica papaya). Information is given on the geographical distribution in NORTH AMERICA, Mexico, USA, Florida, CENTRAL AMERICA & CARIBBEAN, Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St Barthelemy, St Kitts-Nevis, United States Virgin Islands.

Paracoccus marginatus. [Distribution map].

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
Carica Papaya ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Cayman Islands ◽  
Mariana Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Northern Mariana Islands ◽  
Netherlands Antilles ◽  
New Distribution

Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Paracoccus marginatus Williams & Granara de Willink. Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae. Hosts: pawpaw (Carica papaya). Information is given on the geographical distribution in Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia, India (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Indonesia (Java, Sulawesi), Malaysia, Maldives, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand), Africa (Benin, Ghana, Reunion, Togo), North America (Mexico, USA (Florida, Hawaii)), Central America & Caribbean (Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Barthelemy, St. Kitts-Nevis, United States Virgin Islands), South America (French Guiana), and Oceania (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau).

scholarly journals Age-Standardized Mortality Rates in the Caribbean: One Source, Three Different Interpretations

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 26s-26s
Author(s):  
Nicholas G. Wolf ◽  
Camille Morgan ◽  
John S. Flanigan
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
International Agency ◽  
World Population ◽  
Us Virgin Islands ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Mortality Estimates

Abstract 74 Purpose A recent publication in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) provided the opportunity to calculate differences in published cancer mortality estimates for Caribbean jurisdictions from three organizations, MMWR, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. This comparison study serves to educate end users of these data. Methods We downloaded the publicly available cancer mortality estimates for 15 jurisdictions and the United States from the three organizations. We compared reported age-standardized mortality rates for each jurisdiction, and calculated the range among the estimates for each jurisdiction. We repeated this analysis after applying the same world population standard to all estimates. Results For males, ranges of Caribbean estimates were between 49% (Grenada and Trinidad) and 201% (US Virgin Islands) of the MMWR value, with an average of 88%. For females, ranges were between 15% (Trinidad) and 171% (US Virgin Islands) of the MMWR value, with an average of 64%. After all estimates were compared using the same population standard, ranges of Caribbean estimates for males were between 6% (Grenada) and 111% (US Virgin Islands) of the MMWR value, with an average of 34%. For females, ranges were between 7% (Grenada) and 97% (US Virgin Islands), with an average of 28%. Conclusion The use of different standard populations complicates comparisons across organizations. Data modeling does not completely compensate for the quality of source data, as our analysis has demonstrated by the differences in mortality rates despite the good quality of the vital registration in the Caribbean. AUTHORS' DISCLOSURES OF POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST No COIs from the authors.

Mass stranding of pygmy killer whales (Feresa attenuata) in the British Virgin Islands

2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni ◽  
Gian M. Toyos-González ◽  
Janice Pérez-Padilla ◽  
Marta A. Rodríguez-López ◽  
Julie Overing
Keyword(s):  
New Record ◽  
Killer Whale ◽  
Caribbean Sea ◽  
First Record ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Mass Stranding

The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is an offshore, tropical and subtropical delphinid found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans. The species has only recently been studied, mostly from specimens collected from strandings. While over 52 reports exist for the Atlantic Ocean, only one record exists for the Caribbean Sea. A new record of a mass stranding of pygmy killer whales from the British Virgin Islands is documented and the pathology and life history of the specimens is described, associating the stranding process with the meteorological and oceanographic disturbance of Hurricane Marilyn, which devastated the Virgin Islands a day prior to the stranding. This stranding event constitutes the sixth known mass stranding for the species worldwide, the first record for pygmy killer whales for the northeastern Caribbean and the second for the entire Caribbean Sea.

The centipede genus Newportia Gervais, 1847, in Mexico: description of a new troglomorphic species; redescription of N. sabina Chamberlin, 1942; revival of N. azteca Humbert & Saussure, 1869; and a summary of the fauna (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopocryptopidae: Newportiinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 379 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
AMAZONAS C. JUNIOR ◽  
ROWLAND M. SHELLEY
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Florida Keys ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Us Virgin Islands ◽  
British Virgin Islands ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Us ◽  
New Localities ◽  
The Caribbean

In Mexico, the newportiine scolopocryptopid genus Newportia Gervais, 1847, comprises 10 species: N. mexicana (Saussure, 1858); N. azteca Humbert & Saussure, 1869; N. stolli (Pocock, 1896); N. spinipes Pocock, 1896; N. oreina Chamberlin, 1915; N. sabina and pelaezi, both by Chamberlin, 1942; N. atoyaca and morela, both by Chamberlin, 1943, and N. troglobia, n. sp. The last occurs in caves in Tamaulipas and appears to be an obligate troglobite; N. sabina, known only from caves in San Luis Potosi, is redescribed and illustrated. Newportia azteca is revived and returned to its rightful position as the third oldest name in the genus; despite having priority by 27 years, it had been considered to be “the same” as N. spinipes and dropped from nomenclature. Although Newportia and the Newportiinae are not known from the continental United States, they do inhabit the country’s territories in the Caribbean; N. heteropoda Chamberlin, 1918, is reported from Puerto Rico, and N. longitarsis virginiensis Lewis, 1989, is recorded from St. Thomas and St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, and Tortola and Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. The northernmost Mexican record, of N. pelaezi in Nuevo León, is only 96 mi (154 km) south of the US border, suggesting that the taxa may potentially be discovered in the southern periphery of Texas; likewise, rafting from Cuba, where 4–5 species occur, could bring them to the Florida Keys. New localities from Mexico are presented for N. stolli, N. spinipes, N. oreina, N. atoyaca, and N. morela, and ranges are depicted on a distribution map.

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