Jamaica's Golding Talks Economy to Brookings Institution in Washington
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American Airlines Is Adding Nonstop Flights to a Caribbean Island Famous for Its Blue Water, Waterfront Resorts, and Unmistakable Character

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Some islands are defined by scale; Bimini is defined by stories. It’s the closest Bahamian island to the U.S., but it has always carried an outsized place in the Caribbean imagination — a strip of land where writers, activists, fishermen and wanderers have all left their mark. With American Airlines launching the only nonstop flights […]

Caribbean Must Shift Growth Strategy, according to World Bank Report

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean region, like the rest of the developing world, must refocus its strategies from crisis-fighting to structural reforms aimed at growth, according to this month’s Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. “Developing countries have been resilient despite tensions in high-income countries,” said Hans Timmer, director of Development […]

Jamaica's Golding Meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Bruce Golding and Hillary Clinton at the State Department (JIS Photo) Jamaican Prime Minister met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday in Washington, holding bilateral talks on a series of topics. Golding is on a five-day visit to Washington that includes meetings with Clinton, IMF Deputy Managing Director Nayuki Shinohara and World Bank […]

Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter: "Remarkable Change" Under Way

Brian Waynter (Photo: JIS) Jamaica is going through a period of “remarkable change,” Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter said yesterday at the Caribbean Canadian Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue Economic Symposium in St. Andrew. Wynter said the bank was working on developing the institutional structure of financial markets, strengthening the credit system and improving fiscal discipline […]

Jamaica's Golding Meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

 FIFA President Sepp Blatter (Source: FIFA) Some Caribbean football officials have expressed their displeasure with the appointment of Louis Freeh, former head of the U.S.’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, as head of FIFA’s inquiry into the bribery scandal. “The investigation is tainted and biased and clearly has a U.S.-driven agenda,” one Caribbean official wrote in […]

Jamaican Prime Minister Begins High-Level Talks in Washington, D.C.

 Prime Minister Bruce Golding Arrives at Washington’s Ronald Reagan Airport (JIS Photo) Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding arrived in Washington, D.C. yesterday for high-level talks. The talks are part of a five-day visit for Golding. He was met by Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Audrey Marks. He is set to meet with several officials, […]

A Daughter of Calypso Returns Home

 Keina Calliste By Lincoln Depradine Trinidadian Keina Calliste is the daughter of one of the Caribbean’s greatest calypsonians — but despite a family legacy in Grenada, she had never visited the island. “I like it,” she said. “It’s not that much different from Trinidad. We have a lot of similarities.” Calliste’s father was Leroy “Black […]

Could Gardening Help with Food Prices?

Caribbean governments are encouraging citizens to plant their own gardens, in an effort to mitigate the impact of soaring food prices. Beatrice Buchanan, who lives in Kingston, Jamiaca, said her new garden is helping her to combat rising costs of food. “Believe me, if I didn’t’ start up this garden I’d be sruggling a lot […]

Jamaican Governor General Set to Receive Commission of Enquiry Report

 Jamaican Governor General Sir Patrick Allen is scheduled to receive the report from the Manatt Commission of Enquiry today, and pressure is mounting from the opposition People’s National Party concerning the content of the report. The report was previously set to be delivered May 16, following two extensions, but the report was still not ready. […]

Guyana Expects November Elections

President Bharrat Jagdeo Guyana is preparing to hold elections, both for president and Parliament, by November. All 65 seats in the country’s parliament will be in play in the election, the first in Guyana since 2006, when President Bharrat Jagdeo’s People’s Progressive Party won 55 percent of the vote. [AP via Jamaica Observer]

Bahamas Greets New Chinese Ambassador

 From left: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette, Minister of National Security Hon. Tommy Turnquest and Ambassador Hu Shan (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) New Chinese Ambassador to the Bahamas Hu Shan received a formal welcome at the Sheraton Nassau Resort on Friday, following the departure of former Ambassador Hu Dingxian in Feburary. […]

Rihanna Discriminated Against for Caribbean Heritage, According to Lawsuit

By Alexander Britell A former lawyer for Gucci who worked on singer Rihanna’s contract with the design firm claims her superior discriminated against the Barbados-born singer because of her Caribbean heritage, according to the text of a complaint filed in federal court in New York City obtained by Caribbean Journal. According to the suit, the […]