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NEW YORK, New York, June 12, 2009 – Today, keynote speaker Philip Wolf, president and CEO of PhoCusWright, Inc. and a panel of travel industry experts discussed the current economic climate’s effects on travelers and what the future holds for travel industry professionals at the Caribbean Marketing Conference, part of Caribbean Week in New York 2009 (www.onecaribbean.org).

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Hello we would like to post this story on your website to promote our documentary “Celebration of Flight” filmed in the mountain village of Cochrane, Dominica.
 
Here is our movie description that we would like posted. Thank you in advance
 
Lombardo Films GMBH, Munich Germany
Lombardo Films GmbH
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D – 80802 München

Tel. +49 89 216 676 36
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This is a documentary movie about building Dominica’s first airplane in the village of Cochrane. It follows two people generations apart in age but share the desire to fly free as a bird. Its a life changing experience to build an airplane in the beautful island of Dominica to fulfill a pilots last dream before retirement and become a mentor to a young Kalinago Indian.

Former Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation, the Hon Harold Lovell says that the current economic crisis has to be met with continued vision and willingness on the part of Caribbean leaders to adapt to meet the dynamic changes that are taking place in the global marketplace. According to Minister Lovell  the region should be ready to embrace innovative and creative strategies in the face of stormy economic times.

I WAS following post-election political developments in Antigua and Barbuda last week when the Caribbean Community made public its concern over the threat to democracy in the Turks and Caicos Islands by Britain’s announced intention to resort to direct rule from London in that Associate Member territory of CARICOM.

Kingston, Jamaica. March 17, 2009, (Panos) – Jamaica is looking to take better advantage of the Clean Development Mechanism of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, with the formulation of a policy to guide projects for consideration by that facility.

Clifford Mahlung, one of the island’s senior climate negotiators and the recently elected vice-chairman of the executive board of the Clean Development Mechanism, said a draft of the policy should be complete by the end of next month. Once completed, Mahlung said the document would be sent to Cabinet for consideration.

“By March 2009, a draft should be out and ready to be taken to Cabinet to see if we can get approval,” he said.

Nassau, Bahamas. March 9, 2009, (Panos) – The Bahamas government is moving to put measures in place to help the extremely vulnerable islands adjust to what one government official calls a possible ‘death sentence for small islands.’ 

Mr. Phillip Weech, Director of the Bahamas Environmental Science and Technology Commission, said that the government was working on an energy policy, exploring alternative sources of energy as well as more sustainable tourism options in a bid to prepare the over 700 islands for the possible effects of climate change.