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Marriott’s New All-Inclusive Resort-Within-a-Resort in the Riviera Maya Has 10 Ocean-View Suites With Private Pools

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They have lots of names. Preferred clubs. Diamond clubs. Hotels-within-hotels. But one thing is constant — they’re worth the splurge. There’s just something about that extra level of service, the privacy, the amenities — the rooms themselves. And now the Caribbean has a brand new one, at one of its most legendary resorts — and the […]

Durandis: On Citizenship, Nationality and Haiti’s 1987 Constitution

Above: Jean-Jacques Dessalines By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor After more than two centuries of suffering, humiliation and inhuman conditions, brave slaves and free people of colour revolted against their French masters to proclaim their freedom and the independence of their new Republic, which was given the name, Haiti. The country became the first and only […]

Belize's UDP Wins Narrow Re-election; Opposition Gains Eight Seats

Above: Prime Minister Dean Barrow (UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe) By Alexander Britell Belize’s ruling United Democratic Party has won the country’s general elections with a total of 17 out of 31 seats, Chief Elections Officer Josephine Tamai told Caribbean Journal. The voting “went smoothly in most areas,” Tamai said, with a turnout of approximately 73.11 percent, […]

Panama President Opens New KIO Networks Regional Headquarters

Above: the new facility in Panama Pacifico (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama President Ricardo Martinelli has inaugurated information technology firm KIO Networks’ new data centre in the Panama Pacifico development. The facility will be KIO’s new regional headquarters, and the company’s first office in Central America. Martinelli called the firm’s decision to […]

Belize's UDP Wins Narrow Re-election; Opposition Gains Eight Seats

 Above: the location of the quake (Graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shook Haiti on Wednesday night, according to a report from the United States Geological Survey. The quake’s epicentre was located 37 km southeast of Port-au-Prince and about 140 km south-southeast of Gonaives with a depth of 4km. It was […]

Dominican Republic to Join Central American Security Treaty

 Above: Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso (UN Photo/JC McIlwaine) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic will join the Framework Treaty on Democratic Security in Central America as part of a commitment to addressing transnational crime, Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso announced Tuesday. Troncoso was attending the SICA meeting in Tegucigalpa at the […]

Haiti Opens National Ambulance Centre, With Help from Cuba and Brazil

Above: Ambulances at the new facility (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian First Lady Sophia Martelly attended the opening Wednesday of a new National Ambulance Centre at Mais Gate Avenue in Port-au-Prince. The centre will intervene with emergency care in seven areas in the city, based on health mapping of the metropolitan area. […]

Prince Harry Participates in Military Exercises with Jamaica Defence Force

 Above: Prince Harry in a shooting exercise (Photo: JIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Prince Harry participated in several military exercises Wednesday with members of the Jamaica Defence Force at the Up Park Camp base. The Prince is in Jamaica as part of celebrations marking the Diamond Jubilee of his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II. Prince […]

Haiti Gets Help from United States Naval Vessel in Cap Haitien

Above: HSV SWIFT vessel (Photo: US Navy) By the Caribbean Journal staff A group of civilian and military teams on the US naval vessel HSV Swift recently completed a three-week mission in Northern Haiti, focusing on strengthening the rule of law in the country. “Over the last three weeks, the ship’s crew, both civilian and […]

Panama President Meets with SICA, US Vice President Biden in Honduras

Above: the meeting in Tegucigalpa (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama President Ricardo Martinelli met Tuesday with the member presidents of the Central American Integration System (SICA) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Martinelli and the SICA leaders were joined at the meeting by United States Vice President Joe Biden. The meeting, which consisted of a […]

CARICOM Set to Launch Suriname-Based Regional Sports Academy

 Above: Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz in Gold Cup play By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM will launch its Regional Sports Academy in Paramaribo Thursday. The inaugural group of students to the academy, which will be based in Suriname, will be presented to the Bureau of Heads of Government in a ceremony. The Academy, an initiative that […]

Haiti to Receive $131 Million in Reconstruction Help from EU

 Above: Haitian President Michel Martelly and EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Prime Minister-Designate Laurent Lamothe, signed a strategic document and two financing agreements with the European Union in a ceremony in Port-au-Prince. Martelly said he welcomed the agreements, which came within the […]