RESEARCH GRANT.The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, philanthropic institution founded 1978 by John D. MacArthur (1897–1978), owner of a prominent insurance company and other businesses, and his wife Catherine T. has awarded a US$498,000 research grant to support a two-year policy study of governance, security, and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation in the Caribbean, reports CANA Cana (kā`nə), ancient town of Galilee. According to the Gospel of St. John it was here that Jesus performed his first miracle by turning water into wine at a wedding. Cana wedding feast where Christ made water into wine. [N.T. (May 1, 2001). The study, focusing on four countries (Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, St. Lucia, and the Dominican Republic) will be co-directed by Prof. Anthony Bryan of the University of Miami's Dante B. Fascell North-South Center and Dr. Anthony Gonzales of the Institute of International Relations at the University of the West Indies The university consists of three major campuses at Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, and Cave Hill in Barbados, together with a satellite campus in Mount Hope, Trinidad and Tobago and a Centre for Hotel and Tourism Management in Nassau, Bahamas. in Trinidad, together with Dr. Stephen Flynn, Senior Fellow for National Security at the Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an influential and independent, nonpartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921 and based at 58 East 68th Street (corner Park Avenue) in New York City, with an additional office in Washington, D.C. in New York. The project has commenced in Jamaica, where the survey exercise will take place during June to August. Seminars with stakeholders and evaluation meetings will take place in Kingston and Miami during October and November. The survey exercises for Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia and the Dominican Republic will take place from November 2001 to March 2002. |
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