What's New Archives: September 1997

• More tourism and travel links have been added to the Aruba page, but if your trip wasn't so wonderful, you may also file a complaint with the tourism association's on-line hotline.
• On the Guadeloupe site, study economic statistics or read Le Journal de St. Barth, a weekly newspaper serving the area.
• Business and financial articles are now available on the Cayman Islands page, along with on-line publications and an island e-mail directory.
• The new links are mostly in French, but that's the language on the island of Martinique. Learn about archaeology (in English and French) or the local university.

• The Trade page has been updated with the Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica of Columbia, Business Link Uruguay, the Federation of International Trade Associations, and the World Trade Organization. New categories include Trade Agreements and Trade News .
• New links on the Business page include the Grenada Industrial Development Corporation and Trade and Investment Opportunities by the Brazilian Trade Bureau.

• For users interested in the development and history of the Internet in Latin America, we have added links to over a dozen additional papers on this subject. Look for them in the Papers & Articles about Networking in Latin America section of our Networking page.

• In February of 1998, Costa Rica will hold national elections. As a service to LANIC users interested in following the campaign, we have added a Political Parties & Elections section to our Costa Rica page. The section includes links to Costa Rican political parties, presidential candidates, public opinion polls, and general information about the electoral process.

• Several resources have been added to the Trade page, including:
  • Business Link Uruguay
  • Fundacion Invertir Argentina's Import Policy and Procedures
  • Informes Publicados de la Secretaria de Industria, Comercio y Mineria de Argentina
  • Ministerio da Industria, do Comercio e do Turismo (MICT) do Brasil
  • North American Integration and Development Center NAID, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Sector Externo, Departamento Adminstrativo Nacional de Estadistica de Colombia
  • "Sinopse Economica", Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Economica e Social do Brasil
  • World Competitiveness Yearbook 1997, International Institute for Management Development
  • World Trade Magazine
  • World Trade Organization

• Search the Library of Congress for legislation and testimony related to Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
• Also new to the Virgin Islands page is the official government home page and a link to Congresswoman Donna Christian-Green's site in Washington. Other new links include the National Park Service archaeology site, the University of the Virgin Islands library system and the Washington Post World Reference.
• Migrant rescue statistics are available from the U.S. Coast Guard for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Cuba.
• The Guyana page has a number of new entries to announce. The Guyana WWW Handbook and the plan for Guyana's National Development Strategy are now in the General Information section, the Stabroek News is now in the News & Electronic Forums section, and Solutions 2000, a new Guyanese Internet Service Provider, has been added to the WWW Servers section.
• The Suriname page continues to grow with a number of new links, including De Ware Tijd, STVS Locaal Nieuws and Dossier Suriname, now in the News section, and The 1996 Suriname Elections Post-election Report and Suriname's Government by Parbo in the Government section.

• Visit the updated Cuba page, with links to the new Cuba project at Queens College and Graduate School at the City University of New York, read several new articles on the economy or browse through scores of links at the Cuba Megalinks Center. Cuban youth write from Havana in Juventud Rebelde and from Miami in Generation ñ.

• Read the government's take on the investment climate in Barbados, or add the National Cultural Foundation's list of this year's events to your calendar. Check out poetry by local artists or recent news stories on Barbados by the Associated Press and the Washington Post.

• Now you can track everything from hurricanes to politics in Puerto Rico, or shop around in the newly added yellow pages. Catch up on Congressional legislation in the House Committee on Resources on the debate over whether Puerto Rico should become a state, remain a commonwealth or become independent. In a recent El Nuevo Día survey, the commonwealth status prevailed.

• Visit the president of the Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernandez, learn about traditional music or browse through sites of major universities.