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Colin Powell Gives Back in Jamaica
Above: the General Colin Powell Challenge Course By the Caribbean Journal staff A new facility named for and supported by former US Secretary of State Colin Powell seeks to help young people and adults in Jamaica build “resilience and leadership” […]
Caribbean Plate: Trinidad’s Chaud Creole
Trinidad is the undisputed street food capital of the Caribbean. Doubles. Corn soup. Roti. Bake ‘N Shark. At every corner, there is a new taste, a new flavour, a new experience. For Chef Khalid Mohammed, the challenge is taking Trinidad’s […]
Improving Caribbean Connectivity
Above: a panel discussion at the Caribbean Internet Governance Forum last month By the Caribbean Journal staff Are external factors holding back the Caribbean’s Internet entrepreneurs? The answer is yes, particularly the apparent underdevelopment of critical Internet infrastructure in the […]
Trinidad Prime Minister Leading Delegation to Panama
Above: Panama City By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will lead a delegation to Panama on Tuesday. The trip comes in the context of the Americas Competitiveness Forum in Panama City, which lasts from […]
Bahamas PM Defends Offshore Economies in Speech to UN General Assembly
Above: Bahamas PM Perry Christie (UN Photo/Ryan Brown) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations needs to develop mechanisms to govern offshore financial services in order to protect small offshore economies, Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie told the UN […]
“A New Haiti Emerges”
Above: Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe at the UN on Thursday (UN Photo/Sarah Fretwell) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has seen its share of significant setbacks since the 2010 earthquake, but a new country is starting to emerge, Haiti Prime […]
IFC Names Director For Latin America and the Caribbean
Above: IFC headquarters in Washington By the Caribbean Journal staff The IFC has named Irene Arias its new Director for the Latin America and Caribbean region. Arias, who will be based in Bogota, will oversee the IFC’s Investment and Advisory […]
LIAT Accepts Ian Brunton’s Resignation, Names Acting CEO
Above: a LIAT plane By the Caribbean Journal staff The Board of Directors of regional air carrier LIAT has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Ian Brunton and named an interim replacement, it announced Wednesday. Brunton’s resignation will take […]
How Government Aviation Taxes Negatively Impact Caribbean Tourism
The following is the text of a speech given by St Kitts and Nevis Tourism & International Transport Minister Richard Skerritt to the ICAO Plenary Session in Montreal on Wednesday. Mr President, Mr Secretary General, fellow delegates, distinguished ladies and […]
Op-Ed: How to Fix LIAT
By Robert MacLellan Op-Ed Contributor SOME MIGHT believe that, for the second time in only three years, Captain Ian Brunton has been made a scapegoat by the board of directors of a Caribbean airline company – fired as CEO of […]
Antigua PM Heads to New York
Above: Antigua Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer is leading a delegation to the UN General Assembly this week. Spencer’s visit comes as Antigua’s own John Ashe readies to serve […]
Jamaica’s Richard Azan Resigns Following Report By Contractor General
Above: Parliament By the Caribbean Journal staff Richard Azan, Jamaican Minister of State in the Ministry of Transport, Works and Housing announced his resignation from the Cabinet on Friday. Azan’s move came after a report by the Contractor General earlier […]
LIAT CEO Ian Brunton Resigns
Above: a LIAT plane By Alexander Britell LIAT CEO Ian Brunton has tendered his resignation, the company confirmed to Caribbean Journal on Monday. The move comes during a period of struggle for the Caribbean’s regional airline, which recently begun a […]
Audley Shaw Announces Bid For Leadership of Jamaica Labour Party
Above: Audley Shaw By the Caribbean Journal staff Following months of speculation, Jamaican Opposition MP Audley Shaw announced Sunday that he would be challenging Andrew Holness for the leadership of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party. Shaw made the announcement in […]
A New Caribbean Integration Paradigm?
Above: Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran By the Caribbean Journal tsaff The Caribbean’s integration movement needs to adapt to the effects of the global financial crisis. That’s the thesis put forward by Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran, who says […]
Op-Ed: The Caribbean Passport Problem
By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Too many passports. It’s a problem almost unique to the Caribbean. The best and brightest of the region head abroad to study — maybe to Canada, maybe to the United Kingdom, maybe the United States. […]
St Kitts Airport Readying Expansion of Arrivals Terminal
Above: Robert L Bradshaw International Airport (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The arrival hall at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport in St Kitts is set to begin this month, according to Jonathan Bass, CEO of the St […]
Interview With Ric Todd, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands
By Alexander Britell Just a few years ago, the Turks and Caicos Islands was in serious trouble. After a UK Commission of Enquiry found evidence of widespread corruption under the government of former Premier Michael Misick, the UK suspended the […]
Jamaica’s Major Push on Sugar
Above: a sugar cane plant By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica says it is embarking on a significant push to boost sugar production in the country. The Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has begun a “massive” cane planting and […]
Who Will Lead Caribbean Transformation?
By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor Dr Shelton Nicholls, former deputy director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, was right when he said Caribbean countries needed to ensure economic growth strategies address the current challenges as well as take […]
St Kitts Eyes More Hotel Rooms
Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Does St Kitts and Nevis need more hotel rooms? It does if it plans to go ahead with plans to increase the number of stayover arrivals to the twin-island federation, […]
Haiti, Dominican Republic Plan Increased Business Dialogue
Above: Port-au-Prince By the Caribbean Journal staff Following up on a dialogue that started in Miami last month, private sector representatives from Haiti and the Dominican Republic are planning to deepen their conversations. Both sides agreed to transform their bilateral […]
LIAT, Caribbean Premier League in Row Over Service
By the Caribbean Journal staff After the founder of the Caribbean Premier League said regional carrier LIAT cost the league “millions of dollars,” LIAT is now firing back. CPL Founder Ajmal Khan told the Barbados Sun that LIAT’s service was […]
Canada to Contribute $6.6 Million to Haiti
Above: Christian Paradis By the Caribbean Journal staff Canada will be making a $6.6 million contribution to Haiti to continue its support under the World Food Programme’s Support to Sustainable School Feeding programme in Haiti. The project provides a daily […]
Going Green in the Tropics
Above: Miami By the Caribbean Journal staff What makes going green in tropical climates a different kind of challenge? That will be the subject of a first-of-its-kind conference this month held by the US Green Building Council’s South Florida Chapter. […]
Hyatt to Open All-Inclusive Resort at Former Ritz-Carlton in Montego Bay
Above: the former Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall By the Caribbean Journal staff The former Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Jamaica’s Montego Bay will soon become a Hyatt. Hyatt Ziva, which will focus on families, is one of a series of all-inclusive resorts […]
Bringing Martinique’s Rhum to America
Above: the Rhum Clement Distillery in Martinique By Alexander Britell ONCE UPON a time, rum was the most popular spirit in America. Thanks to a number of factors — most notably the detrimental effects of prohibition — interest in the Noble […]
A New Opposition Leader in Jamaica?
Above: Audley Shaw By the Caribbean Journal staff Could the Jamaica Labour Party get a new leader? Opposition Member of Parliament and former Jamaican Finance Minister Audley Shaw seems to have thrown thrown his hat in the ring to challenge […]
