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A Boost for Haiti's Coffee Farmers

By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s coffee industry will soon be receiving support from a multi-partner development programme that could provide help to as many as 10,000 smallholder coffee farmers in the country. The programme, which was jointly set up […]

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Jamaican Small Businesses Going Green through New DBJ Programme

Above: DBJ Managing Director Milverton Reynolds, DBJ Project Coordinator Christopher Brown, Minister of State Julian Robinson and CAC 2000’s Steven Marston By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican small businesses are getting a green boost thanks to a new project from […]

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Haiti Gets $15 Million IDB Grant to Help Reform Agricultural Policy

Above: an irrigation channel in Haiti (IDB Photo/Paul Constance) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has received a $15 million grant from the Inter-American Development Bank to help modernize the country’s agricultural policies and institutions. The grant will be complemented […]

Healthcare in the Caribbean

Haiti's Health Care Gets Solar Help

Above: a solar system at the Mirebalais Hospital (Photo: Partners in Health) By the Caribbean Journal staff A partnership between the International Development Bank, the government of Haiti and the Solar Electric Light Fund has completed the installation of solar […]


Op-Ed: Jamaica, Greece and Putting the People Before the Creditors

By Jake Johnston Op-Ed Contributor Jamaica is barely emerging from its worst economic downturn in the last 30 years. Even after positive growth returned in 2011, the economy remains 3 percent below its 2007 level, and with anaemic growth projected […]


Jamaica's Budget Targets Northern Coast

Above: Negril By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government has set aside just under $26 million (J$2.25 billion) for a group of projects aimed at improving the infrastructure on the country’s northern coast. The allocation will be executed through the […]

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Canada, IDB Partner to Finance Green Fund for Caribbean and Latin America

By the Caribbean Journal staff Canada and the Inter-American Development Bank are partnering on a fund aimed at financing green investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. Canada has already committed just over $253 million to create the Canadian Climate […]


China-IDB Fund Could Mobilize $1 Billion for Latin America and the Caribbean

Above: IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno (IDB Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Export-Import Bank of China and the Inter-American Development Bank are working to create an investment platform for Latin America and the Caribbean that could create as […]


Haiti's Martelly Opens National Investment Forum in Port-au-Prince

Above: Trade Minister Wilson Laleau and President Michel Martelly at the forum (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian President Michel Martelly opened a national forum on investment in Haiti at the Hotel Karibe Monday, seeking to attract investors […]

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Colombia, Inter-American Development Bank Sign Citizen Security Agreement

Above: Bogota (Photo: IDB) By the Caribbean Journal staff Colombia and the Inter-American Development Bank have signed an agreement aiming to transfer knowledge on violence prevention and improve citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean. The signing, which took […]


Inter-American Development Bank Approves $70 Billion Capital Increase

Above: IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno (right) at a road project in Haiti (Photo: Catianne Tijerina) By the Caribbean Journal staff The member countries of the Inter-American Development Bank have approved a resolution authorizing a $70 billion increase in the […]


IDB: Latin America and Caribbean on Right Path, but Not Immune to Turbulence

Above: IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno in Haiti (Photo: Catianne Tijerina) By the Caribbean Journal staff Latin America and the Caribbean are closing a year marked by economic gains, but the region is not immune to external shocks, according to […]