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This Caribbean Floating Bar Has World-Class Tacos — And You Can Only Get There by Boat

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You come in by boat, cut the engine, and drift into Lindbergh Bay with a floating taco bar ahead of you. The water here is clear enough to see sand patches under the surface as you slow down. Small boats move through the bay. People sit in float seats with drinks in hand. Others climb […]

St Lucia to Introduce Value Added Tax

By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of St Lucia will introduce a Value Added Tax in September, fulfilling what it called “undertakings given to international institutions by the former government” that VAT would be introduced during this financial year. Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony’s St Lucia Labour party, which ousted former Prime Minister Stephenson […]

Barbados Holds Talks with Mexico, Turkey

Above: Barbados PM Freundel Stuart (UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz) By the Caribbean Journal staff Mexico and Barbados held talks this week aimed at strengthening the existing bilateral relations between the two countries. Mexican Ambassador Mario Eugenio Arriola Woog paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Freundel Stuart at Ilaro Court in Bridgetown. Woog said the 2nd […]

Trinidad's Government Considers Internal Self-Government for Tobago

Above: Tobago (Photo: Tobago Tourism) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has presented a Green Paper on internal self-government for the island of Tobago to former Presidnet Arthur Robinson. The Green Paper is currently out for public comment. The Prime Minister said that consideration of “greater autonomy and responsibility to the […]

Barbados Holds Talks with Mexico, Turkey

 Above: Guyana President Donald Ramotar By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana President Donald Ramotar says that by broadening bilateral relations, Caribbean countries can better immunize themselves against the problems that affect other parts of the world. Ramotar, who was speaking at a reception hosted by the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies, said the region’s […]

Haiti's Martelly Envisions Hospital Expansion As Part of Decentralization Plan

Above: the new Mirebalais Teaching Hospital (Photo: Partners in Health) By the Caribbean Journal staff Continuing his tour around Haiti to push the government’s plan to shift power from Port-au-Prince and into local governments, Haitian President Michel Martelly visited the still-under-construction Mirebalais Teaching Hospital Wednesday. Martelly said he is prepared to initiate discussions with the […]

Jamaica to Acquire Two Firearm Marking Machines from OAS

 Above: National Security Minister Peter Bunting (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica, following the lead of a number of Caribbean countries, will soon receive two firearm marking machines to assist its efforts to stem the illegal gun trade. The “Dot Peen” machines, provided by the Organization of American States, place marks on firearms that […]

Rum Journal: A Conversation with Atlantico Rum’s Aleco Azqueta

 The story of Ron Atlantico begins in the Dominican Republic. But even before that, it began at Georgetown University. It was there that co-founders Aleco Azqueta and Brandon Lieb were classmates, and soon after colleagues at Bacardi. Azqueta then went on to run Grey Goose and Dewar’s. “About four years ago, we really felt that, […]

OECS Regional Assembly Moves Forward

 Above: St John’s, Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff The inaugural session of the OECS Regional Assembly is on track to be held in Antigua on June 15. The new regional assembly, whose convention was decided at the 54th Meeting of the OECS Authority earlier this year, is one of the new organs under the […]

CARIFORUM and EU Sign $110M in Agreements; Allocations for Belize, Haiti

 Above: EU Representative Robert Kopechy and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque sign the agreements (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the European Union signed three financial agreements aimed at boosting the region’s integration efforts. The three agreements have a total value of $110 million, […]

Interview with US Virgin Islands Delegate Donna Christensen on Health Care, HOVENSA

 Above: US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen (Photo: WH) By Alexander Britell The US Virgin Islands is in one of the most challenging periods in its history, in large part due to the closure of the HOVENSA oil refinery earlier this year. The refinery, the largest in the Caribbean, was the territory’s single-largest […]

Dominican Republic Opens Police Station in Growing Tourist Town of Las Galeras

 Above: the new station in Las Galeras By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic’s National Police has opened a new station in Las Galeras. The station comes in part to respond to a surge in development and tourism in the area, creating the need for the new facility. Major General Jose Armando Polanco Gomez, […]

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