Sentences with phrase «island trading nation»
It is important to many of my constituents — indeed, to the whole country as an island trading nation.
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In an essay published in local media, Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday Thursday by arguing that the United States owes Cuba «many millions of dollars» because of the trade embargo Congress imposed on the island nation back in 1963, according to a report in L'Agence France - Presse
Representatives from this island nation will not only introduce trade visitors to its latest organic products but will also provide details about its particular regional features.
Shortly after President Barack Obama announced plans to normalize relations with Cuba and to rescind the island nation's designation as a state sponsor of terrorism, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced plans to lead a New York State Trade Mission there.
That means maintaining the necessary common standards and frameworks for our own domestic market, empowering the UK as an open, trading nation to strike the best trade deals around the world, and protecting the common resources of our islands.
For centuries dubbed the Sandalwood Island, thanks to its export trade, it was colonized by the Portuguese in the early 16th century, and by 1866 belonged to the Dutch East Indies, but few signs of these colonizing nations remain today.
PUBLIC ART On Sept. 27, as part of its 250th anniversary celebration, Brown University dedicates a slave memorial by sculptor Martin Puryear that recognizes the university's «connection to the trans - Atlantic slave trade and the work of Africans and African - Americans, enslaved and free, who helped build our university, Rhode Island, and the nation.»
The government expects that the trading platform will generate non-tax revenue for the budget of the island nation.
An Aboriginal man who grew up on the far north coast of NSW and a descendant of the reprehensible slave trade with connections to the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, Sol Bellear AM was a true activist and justice warrior for First Nations people.