SPECIAL REPORTS - Portside Caribbean

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Special report 2020

2020 - A year like no other Presidential elections in the USA helped in no small measure to make 2020 a year like no other. The world’s communications media - public and social - garnered as much publ

STRANDED AT SEA: ICS sounds alarm – seafarers must be made ‘Key Workers’

2020 October 01: The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), on International Day of the Seafarer (June 25, 2020) sounded the alarm about the plight of seafarers. And, within a week, posted on its w

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: Port activity during COVID-19

Port activity during COVID-19 - cruise hit hard, cargo…not so much 2020 October 1: Not many saw it coming and no one could have planned for it. In a matter of a few short months, the world was near pa

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability

STRANDED AT SEA: Seafarers ‘stuck at sea’ a threat to global stability Make them global-essential ‘Key Workers’ 2020 October 01: As the sun rose on World Maritime Day 2020, the fate of almost one mill

STRANDED AT SEA: Suicide main cause of death at sea

Suicide is now the foremost cause of deaths amongst seafarers, an “… isolated, vulnerable, and globally essential workforce.” 2020, October 1: As the global death toll from COVID-19 increased, spreadi

STRANDED AT SEA: Make the world’s seafarers Global Key Workers

Make the world’s seafarers Global Key Workers t the time of going to press, our world as we knew it changed, in some respects, radically. The current year was barely a third of the way through when it

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: CLIA suspends global cruise industry

A YEAR LIKE NO OTHER: CLIA suspends global cruise industry 2020 April 2: On March 13, 2020, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA) took extreme action by suspending cruise ship operations from

Caribbean oil: hope yet trepidation

The Caribbean is no newcomer to oil he rhetorical question has been raised: is the Caribbean the next global oil-producing region? Truth is: the Caribbean is no newcomer to oil. Some of the earliest c

CARIBBEAN OIL [3]: PetroCaribe Meltdown … as Venezuelan economy weakens

CARIBBEAN OIL PetroCaribe meltdown as Venezuelan economy weakens 2019, March 1: When he launched his PetroCaribe project in 2005, late Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez had one intention: to use his co

CARIBBEAN OIL [2]: Guyana’s dilemma

CARIBBEAN OIL Guyana’s dilemma: too much, too suddenly By Canute James * 2019, March 1: As Guyana moves towards realising its significant oil potential, it has one latent concern: it could be too much

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