Category: Americas

          Ahmed Tinubu, the governor of Lagos state in Nigeria, who has been compared to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, will be in Atlanta Aug. 15-16 for a reunion...

   Hong Kong’s Washington-based commissioner to the United States, Jacqueline Willis, visited Atlanta earlier this month “to establish a long-term closer collaboration” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,...

Representatives from Hemisphere Inc., the organization responsible for bringing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) secretariat to Atlanta, will meet for a second time on July 27-Aug.1 with...

Gov. Sonny Perdue signed two executive orders last week creating the Latino Commission for a New Georgia and the Asian-American Commission for a New Georgia to serve as advisory bodies...

Atlanta was one of nine U.S. and Canadian cities selected to recruit business people to attend Rugby World Cup 2003 in Australia from Oct. 10-Nov. 22, David Nucifora, ambassador for...

An Atlanta company is to begin exploration of five Caribbean shipwrecks in early 2004, following a recently completed agreement with the government of Jamaica.             The vessels, British and Spanish...

Sister City relationships between Atlanta and Galway and Limerick in western Ireland will be in place by the end of the year, according to Jim Gaffey, chairman of the Ireland...

            Officials are watching international enrollment at Georgia colleges and universities for 2003 anxiously, wary of the effect post-9/11 immigration policies may have on foreign nationals applying for student visas...

Dimitris Macrynikolas, the consul of Greece in Atlanta for the past six and a half years, left for New York last week where he will replace the consul general for...

Malcolm McKechnie has been appointed Consul General of Canada in Atlanta, overseeing a territory that includes seven states in the Southeast. He will replace Astrid Pregel, who is leaving her...