Pacific Island Countries and Territories (PICTs) that make up the
Pacific Islands Ocean region are guardians of a vast area of the
earth’s surface, covering at least 40 million square kilometers. The
ocean comprises around 98 percent of the region. Pacific Islanders
are people of the sea. They derive significant social, economic and
environmental benefit from the ocean, recognizing that the ocean is
their greatest natural asset.
Pacific Island countries have made numerous commitments at

The critically important goods and services from marine ecosystems of the
Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) are threatened by both intra-regional and
extra-regional forces, leading to pollution, overexploitation and habitat
destruction, with climate change adding a layer of uncertainty in terms of
impacts. To address these challenges, there appears to be an emerging
structure that suggests an enhanced global-regional linkage of ocean
governance arrangements is a necessity in the post-2015 arena. We argue

Countries of the Wider Caribbean Region (WCR) have committed to ocean
governance, also, to sustainable development. The two pursuits are
interlinked, and must be pursued in tandem, and in an integrated way, to
achieve these goals. Often they are not, and fragmented ocean governance
and disconnect between ocean governance and sustainable development
results. The WCR needs an ocean policy to integrate its ocean governance
into an overarching vision of sustainable development to enhance its

This study seeks to identify the factors associated with recent physical and
sexual forms of intimate partner violence (IPV) using a nationally
representative sample of 9,641 women involved in at least one sexual
partnership in their lifetime. Women were asked questions about the
specific act of physical and sexual abuse by a previous or existing male
partner. Five broad categories involving the socio-demographic
background, household characteristics, socialization towards violence,

This paper reviews the Government Assistance for Tuition Expenses
(GATE) programme in a small petroleum exporting economy. The GATE
Programme was launched in 2004 to provide financial assistance to
citizens for studies undertaken within specified institutions.
Persons participating in the GATE programme are required to serve
a period of national service, however, no systems have been established to
ensure the fulfilment of the required service period. The universal issuance

The following article analyses the arrival, settlement, identity and
participation of a small South Asian diasporic minority group, comprising
mainly East Indians from India and Trinidad, in the United States Virgin
Islands (USVI). It reveals that East Indians do not fit into the general
definition of minority groups in the USVI or even in the wider Caribbean.
They have neither been singled out openly for differential and unequal
treatment nor exposed to constant incidents of discrimination. These East

The quantity theory of money suggests there is an unambiguous causal
relationship between money supply and price level. Quarterly data from
Jamaica for a 28-year period (1980-2008) reveal that two other variables
exert influence on the price level. The first causal relationship is between
changes in the exchange rate and the price level. The second is between US
money supply and Jamaica’s price level. These results suggest that
monetary policy in small open economies may not, by itself, tame
inflationary pressures (JEL E31, F31).
 

Despite being separated by great geographical distances, the transnational
Caribbean community has managed to stay in regular communication
with those in the “home” country using the latest available technologies.
The preliminary findings of this exploratory study suggest that new media
(Facebook, Skype, and YouTube) facilitate multi-directional caring and a
“new” form of caring for family, kin and friends. The research also
connects social media and caring for individuals as they are aging in the

Trinidad and Tobago has developed a modern and reliable information and
communication technology infrastructure that provides access to internet
and telephony services to most of the country, but utilization of these
services may vary significantly. The objective of this paper is to determine
the extent of and the reasons for this variation. Such information could be
used to shape policy toward the lessening of the divide, if one exists. The
basis of the analysis is the calculation of two measures of the digital divide:

The issue of corporate governance has increased in importance over the last
decade and remains an unexplored area for research in Barbados. The
purpose of this research is to determine the level of corporate governance
disclosure practices undertaken by the public limited companies listed on
the Barbados Stock Exchange (BSE), subsequent to the 2008 global financial
crisis. Content analysis was used to derive a disclosure score,
measuring the level of transparency and corporate governance disclosures