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Year: 2011

News

New Legislation Would Simplify Jamaican Tax Filings

Above: Finance Minister Audley Shaw (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Cabinet has approved amendments to six pieces of legislation that would facilitate the use of a single form to file annual tax returns. The amendments would be […]

CJ Politics

Jamaica: Surveillance Flight Part of Normal Agreement with United States

Above: a Lockheed P-3 Orion (Photo: Lockheed) By the Caribbean Journal staff The deployment of a United States surveillance plane during last year’s raid of the Tivoli Gardens neighbourhood in Kingston was part of a normal agreement Jamaica enjoys with […]

IDB Grants Suriname $40 Million Loan to Strengthen Financial Sector

Above: Paramaribo (UNESCO Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $40 million loan that supports the government of Suriname’s financial sector reform programme. “Suriname has enjoyed robust and macro-economically balanced growth for the past […]

Antigua Works to Transform Public Sector

Above: Finance Minister Harold Lovell By the Caribbean Journal staff Public sector transformation is a priority for the Antiguan government, which has been working to implement a series of initiatives toward that end. “We have inherited a public service architecture […]


Jamaica to Debate Anti-Gang Bill

By the Caribbean Journal staff There are almost 200 criminal gangs in Jamaica, and the government is now tabling a bill in Parliament aimed at dismantling them, National Security Dwight Nelson said yesterday. “There has been a lot of concern […]


New Grenadian Initiative Targets Poverty through Agriculture

By the Caribbean Journal staff The new Grenada Market Access and Rural Enterprise Development Programme aims to tackle poverty in the country’s rural communities, according to Environment and Foreign Trade Minister Joseph Gilbert. “The MAREP offers us an opportunity to […]

Holness: Jamaica to Focus on Creativity

By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Education Ministry will focus on helping Jamaican students leverage their natural creativity in culture and the development of technology, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said yesterday. Holness was speaking at the awards ceremony of the […]


Interview with Philippe Saint-Cyr of the American Chamber of Commerce in Haiti

By Alexander Britell Investors and stakeholders met yesterday in Miami for the Inter-American Development Bank’s Haiti Reconstruction Investment Forum to take a look at the range of economic opportunities and the progress of rebuilding in Haiti. One area seen as […]


New Cuban Ambassador to Bahamas

By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamian Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes has accepted letters of credence from Ernesto Soberon Guzman, the new Cuban ambassador to the Bahamas. Guzman succeeds former Ambassador Jose Ponce Caraballo. “You should find that the service […]

Law

Turks and Caicos Attorney General Obtains First Civil Recovery Order

Above: downtown Grand Turk By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of Turks and Caicos has obtained the first civil recovery order under the provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Ordinance 2007, Attorney General Huw Shepheard announced today. The order […]


For OECS, a New Definition of "Rural"

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States is placing the challenges of the region’s rural poor on the front burner, according to Darrel Montrope, head of the OECS’ Social Policy Unit, partly as the meaning of […]


St Lucia Could Get Universal Preschool

By the Caribbean Journal staff New St Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony said he would place an emphasis on developing the “human resource” of the state, aiming to allow citizens to explore their full potential. “We have already signaled our […]


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