"Focuses on AIDS/HIV cases in the Caribbean Area as of January 2003. Percentage of people affected with the disease; Information on the University of the West Indies HIV/AIDS Response Program (UWI HARP); Comments from professor Farley Cleghorn on the response of the government to the disease; Impact of the UWI HARP on the students." (author)
Discussed is the 'passion for Cuba' held by Dr. Robert Stephens, professor of music at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and interim director of the school's Institute for African American Studies
Worldwide interest in how to set up networks of two-year colleges like ones in the U. S. is discussed. Interest in Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa, India, Hong Kong, China, and Vietnam is examined
Discussed is the case of Elian Gonzalez, a six-year-old Cuban boy whom U. S. officials want to send back to his father in Cuba. Dawkins hopes that the case will be the catalyst for further national debate over immigration
Profiles an Asian-Caribbean-American on American racial politics. Dr. M. Godfrey Mungal, born in Trinidad and now teaches at Stanford University, was an Indian laborer brought to the Caribbean by plantation owners after the abolition of slavery.
"In August, with Haiti still in a political quagmire and plans for another U.S. military invasion looming, ...more than 200 other Haitian scholars from around the world had education on their minds. Haiti's best and brightest teachers, administrators and professors came to New York's City College from nearby Brooklyn and as far away as Africa, Belgium, Germany and Canada to discuss how they could help build and reform what's left of the education system." (BDH)
