This is the first film of the Legend to be approved by the Marley family. On the 14th April 2012, the Bob Marley film premiered at the Emancipation Park, Kingston Jamaica and opened in Cinemas on the 20th April 2012.
The Caribbeantales 2012 Film Festival which runs from April 10 to 15 will offer a series of workshops for filmmakers and film fans that can best be described as a smorgasbord for filmmakers.
Following three calls for applications Barbados, the City of Buenos Aires, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Honduras, Mauritius, Niger, the Seychelles and Viet Nam will benefit from technical assistance missions.
News Americas, BROOKLYN, NY, Fri. Dec. 23, 2011: President of the West Indian American Day Carnival Association, Inc. Of New York, Yolanda Lezama-Clark, has called it quits, New Americas has learnt.
CARICOM Secretariat, Guyana — Dec. 6, 2011 – It is now a fait accompli. Suriname will host the 11th staging of the Caribbean premier festival of the creative and performing arts in 2013; this after their first successful hosting in 2003.
Caribbean singer-songwriter Shontelle Layne, known to her fans as “Shontelle” entered the global music scene in 2007 when the team that discovered successful R&B artist Rihanna offered her a deal she could not refuse.
Celebration as former Miss T&T wins 'Project Runway'
A sleep-deprived Project Runway winner Anya Ayoung-Chee said yesterday she was relieved to "finally share her amazing secret with the planet".
The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat wishes to advise Member States that the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and CARICOM Secretariat, with the financial contribution of Spain to the Doha Development Agenda Global Trust Fund, are jointly organising a Regional Workshop on Creative Industries and Intellectual Property Rights for Countries of the Caribbean. The Workshop will be held at the Wyndham Kingston, in Kingston, Jamaica from 18-20 April 2012.
Member States are invited to nominate two (2) capital-based senior officials (one (1) should have responsibility for intellectual property policy and the other should be from the trade authorities). Selected candidates should have successfully completed the WTO Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) online training course at the intermediate level or, otherwise, demonstrated having acquired equivalent knowledge through professional experience.
The WTO Secretariat will provide financing to cover travel expenses and per diem for two (2) participants from each Member State, in accordance with WTO regulations. The CARICOM Secretariat will be responsible for arranging airfare and hotel accommodation and the payment of per diem. Personal travel arrangements made outside of this activity will be the responsibility of the participants. The participation by Regional Organisations/Secretariats will not be funded.
Attached is the Draft Programme of Activities for the Workshop.
Member States are requested to submit by Friday, 30 March 2012, the names and designations of their nominees, as well as their email addresses, telephone and fax numbers. Nominations received after this date will not be eligible for donor support. This information should be forwarded to -
The Secretary-General
Caribbean Community:
for the attention of -
Mr. Ian King
Project Officer
External Economic and Trade Relations
CARICOM Secretariat
Tel. No. 592-222-0001-75 (Ext. 2761)
Fax No: 592-222-0165
E-mail: iking@caricom.org; eetr@caricom.org
and copied to -
Mr. Wolf Meier-Ewert
Legal Officer
Intellectual Property Division
World Trade Organization Secretariat
Geneva, Switzerland
Tel. No.: (41-22) 739-6344
E-mail: wolf.meier-ewert@wto.org
Ms. Verónica Scerbo
Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC)
World Trade Organisation (WTO)
Geneva, Switzerland
Tel. No.: (41-22) 739-5918
Fax No.: (41-22) 739-5764
E-mail: veronica.scerbo@wto.org
Dominican Leonardo Arturo de Leon is one of the winners of the 2011 Platinum Level Oregon Film Awards. He won in the screenplay competition for having written the film Why Do Men Cheat. It is the story of a man who married the woman of his dreams but is about to lose her trying to discover the answers to why men cheat.
Forward Home will be the first film shown at the 5th Eco-Cultural Seaflower in Providencia Island. The theme will be Culture and Environment, film days are April 27-29, 2012. See the full viewing here.
Don't look so surprised, the Platinum-selling female American rapper indicated during a recent exclusive interview with Express Woman that she is angling for the post of US youth ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. She said this is a dream that she has been nurturing for the past few years.
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. Oct. 6, 2010: Grammy-winning Haitian-born international recording artist and humanitarian, Wyclef Jean, is not a university graduate but he has now been named as a visiting fellow at Rhode Island`s Brown University.
CaribWorldNews, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Weds. Oct. 6, 2010: Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Guyana-born Professor E. Nigel Harris, has challenged Caribbean tourism officials to focus on `history tourism.`
We are pleased to share with you our E-news N° 17 which highlights events and activities involving the UNCTAD Creative Economy Programme during the last quarter of 2011.
We are very pleased to share with you our E-news N° 16 which summarises activities carried out by the UNCTAD Creative Economy Programme during the 3rd quarter of 2011.
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Venezuela is to give the American actor Danny Glover almost $18m (£9m) to make a film about a slave uprising in Haiti, with President Hugo Chávez hoping the historical epic will sprinkle Hollywood stardust on his effort to mobilise world public opinion against imperialism and western oppression.
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We are very pleased to share with you our E-news N° 16 which summarises activities carried out by the UNCTAD Creative Economy Programme during the 3rd quarter of 2011. 
