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Spirit Is Now Flying Nonstop to Belize — And It Opens the Door to Beaches, Rainforests, and Adventure

The approach into Belize City brings you over a patchwork of mangroves and tidal flats, the Caribbean shifting from deep blue to bands of bright turquoise as the reef rises beneath the surface. Small boats cut white lines across the water. Beyond the shoreline, the land turns dense and green. Spirit Airlines is now flying […]

Report: 20 Months after the Earthquake, a Continued Struggle for Haiti's Women

Above: a woman in Haiti after the earthquake (UN Photo: Marco Dormino) By the Caribbean Journal staff Women and girls continue to suffer in Haiti, 20 months after the earthquake that shook the country, according to a report by international NGO Human Rights Watch. While the post-quake situation has been unbearable for much of the […]

British Virgin Islands Has Caribbean's Best Quality of Life: Report

Above: Scrub Island in BVI By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by the Financial Times’ fDi Intelligence division has named the British Virgin Islands as having the Caribbean’s best quality of life. The report, which ranks what it deems the region’s “Countries of the Future,” covers several categories, including economic potential, infrastructure, business friendliness […]

Cayman Signs Deal on Tech District

Above: Cayman Enterprise City By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands Government has signed a deal allowing developer Cayman Enterprise City the exclusive right to construct, develop and maintain a special economic zone. The company’s project, Cayman Enterprise City, is intended to attract global science, technology media and other industries to Cayman. “CEC represents an […]

British Virgin Islands Has Caribbean's Best Quality of Life: Report

Above: the CCJ in Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff Incoming Caribbean Court of Justice President Sir Charles Michael Dennis Byron was one of several of the CCJ’s justices participating in a series of programmes aimed at instructing Caribbean nationals about the court. Sir Dennis was in St Kitts this week underscoring what […]

In the Bahamas, Art Gets a Boost

By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamian art is getting a lift from a new programme from the country’s Public Treasury Department, which announced a plan to recognise and encourage young Bahamian artists and engender a renewed commitment to art in the Bahamas. The Public Treasury Art Programme is set to transform the common areas of […]

Canadian Senator Don Meredith Talks CARICOM, Free Trade and Caribbean Tech

By Alexander Britell Senator Don Meredith is one of the leading figures of the Caribbean diaspora. A native of Jamaica, Meredith is an ordained minister, and was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 2010. Meredith, who immigrated to Canada in the 1980s, has made it a mission to solve community issues, and since 2002 has […]

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Grants $1.4 Million for Construction, Green Energy

By the Caribbean Journal staff Above: construction in Haiti (Photo: Clinton Bush Haiti Fund) The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is granting $1.4 million in new funds for three projects in Haiti, including a housing programme, a vocational training programme and a green energy initiative. GaMa Enterprises, a Haitian company, will receive $1.08 million in funding […]

Jamaica Makes New Push on Aquaculture

Jamaica is working to ensure the survival of the country’s aquaculture sub-sector with several new policies, including the development of a national fisheries policy. New fisheries legislation would create a framework for regulation of aquaculture, according to Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Robert Montague. “Both the policy and supporting legislation are in the final stages of […]

In Barbados, a New Look at Motor Racing

Above: racing at Alwyn Kirk (Photo: Digicel) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados’ government is preparing to introduce a new Sports Development Act aimed at hastening the development of the sporting sector on the island, including its motor racing industry, according to Minister of Sports Stephen Lashley. Lashley was addressing the 2011 Williams Digicel International […]

Trinidad Extends State of Emergency, Shortens Curfew Hours

Above: Minister of National Security John Sandy (FP-TGISL) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that the country’s State of Emergency would be extended, albeit with a reduction in curfew hours. “We are considering and indeed we will extend the State of Emergency to a further period,” she said yesterday. “We […]

OAS: Involve Small States in G20 Talks

Above: OAS Assistant Secretary-General Albert Ramdin (Photo: OAS) By the Caribbean Journal staff The time has come for small states and smaller economies like those in the Caribbean to be involved in the delibrations of the G20 economic summit, OAS Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Albert Ramdin said Friday. “It is in the interest of all […]

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