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US Virgin Islands, Federal Officials Discuss Family Assistance Programmes
February 11, 2012 | 8:06 pm | 0 Comment
Above: USVI Governor John de Jongh at a school ceremony last week By the Caribbean Journal staff US Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh met this week with Earl Johnson, director of the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Family Assistance to talk about a number of programmes focused on family assistance. The two were joined by more...
Grenada Gets Top Rank for Investment Promotion, Bests Trinidad and Jamaica
February 10, 2012 | 12:37 am | 0 Comment
Above: St George's, Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada's Industrial Development Corporation has been ranked first among 77 investment promotion institutions in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific, according to the Global Investment Promotion Benchmarking 2012 report, a joint effort by the World Bank Group. The country's GDIC was ranked ahead more...
USVI Governor Accepts First Case of St Croix-Produced Captain Morgan Rum
February 9, 2012 | 11:24 am | 0 Comment
Above: USVI Governor John de Jongh (right) and David Gosnell, Diageo's president of Global Supply By the Caribbean Journal staff US Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh accepted the first case of locally-produced Captain Morgan Rum, following Diageo's decision to build a distillery in St Croix which opened in 2010. Captain Morgan had for some time been produced more...
St Lucia Looks to Costa Rica for Help in Fight to Save Banana Industry
February 8, 2012 | 11:43 pm | 0 Comment
By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia is continuing to look for solutions in its fight against the Black Sigatoka disease, which has been ravaging the country's agricultural sector and its banana industry in particular. Agriculture Minister Moses Jean Baptiste is now in Costa Rica on an official visit, looking to discuss the issue with authorities in that more...
Standard & Poor’s Lowers Credit Rating on Belize, Citing Politics
February 8, 2012 | 12:38 am | 0 Comment
By the Caribbean Journal staff Standard & Poor's has lowered its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Belize to CCC+ from B-, with its outlook "stable." The ratings firm pointed to an announcement by Prime Minister Dean Barrow placing continued debt service of the country's $546.8 million bond (locally called the "superbond") as an more...
Dominican Republic Gets $130 Million Loan from IDB for Toll Road
February 7, 2012 | 10:05 pm | 0 Comment
Above: the Heroes de la Restauracion Monument in Santiago (Photo: DR Tourism) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic has received a $130 million loan to refinance the rehabilitation, construction and operation of the Viadom network of toll roads. The loan for Dominicana de Vias Concesionadas C por A, is the largest single no-sovereign guaranteed more...
Forbes: Living a Mobile Lifestyle
February 7, 2012 | 1:09 pm | 0 Comment
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor We’ve Come a Long Way! For one thing, mobile technology has moved way beyond the days of cumbersome, dumb mobile phones to small, sleek, savvy, smart phones with increasingly multi-functional capabilities, made possible by application (app) software loaded onto their operating system (OS). Discussion of applications can be more...
CARICOM, Chile Conclude Talks
February 5, 2012 | 2:35 pm | 0 Comment
Above: Santiago, Chile By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Community and the government of Chile concluded their second CARICOM-Chile Joint Commission this weekend in Santiago. The talks are the development of the formalization of relations between the two sides in Chile in 1996, when the Standing Joint Commission on Consultation, Cooperation and more...
Canada-CARICOM Trade Project Set to Launch in Barbados
February 5, 2012 | 2:20 pm | 0 Comment
Above: Bridgetown By the Caribbean Journal staff The next phase of the CARICOM Trade and Competitiveness Project is set to launch Monday in Barbados at the Island Inn Hotel. The CARICOM-CIDA project, which is a contribution agreement between the government of Canada and the Caribbean Community, was signed in October 2007. It includes 12 CARICOM states and Haiti. more...
Interview with John Ashton, UK Special Representative for Climate Change
February 2, 2012 | 1:59 pm | 0 Comment
By Alexander Britell “It was the voice of the Caribbean that changed the world at Durban,” says John Ashton, the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change. The Caribbean, perhaps more than any region in the world, faces an existential threat from global climate change. It is that threat which has spurred the region to band together and more...
