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Southwest Airlines Is Launching New Flights to a Caribbean Island Famous for Easy Vacations, Chef’s Tables, and Beach Resorts

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A table with 18 seats wrapped around an open kitchen. A swim-up room steps from Palm Beach. An afternoon under a palapa on Eagle Beach followed by dinner from a chef serving an eight-course tasting menu a few miles away. The Caribbean island of Aruba has developed a particularly easy vacation formula, one where a beach-resort […]

St Lucia's New Ambassador to the United States Presents Credentials

Above: St Lucia Ambassador to the US Sonia Johnny at the OAS (OAS Photo/Maria Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s new Ambassador to the United States, Sonia Johnny, presented her credentials to United States President Barack Obama in a ceremony last week. Johnny previously served as St Lucia’s US Ambassador frmo 1997 […]

Belize, Suriname Foreign Ministers Meet With OAS in New York

Above: OAS SG Jose Miguel Insulza and Belize Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize Foreign Minister Wilfred Elrington and Suriname Foreign Minister Winston Lackin met with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in New York Wednesday. Elrington’s discussions focused on the region’s current political context and on Belize’s […]

Haiti's Laurent Lamothe Meets With South Africa's Jacob Zuma

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (Photo: OPM Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe met Tuesday with South Africa President Jacob Zuma during his trip to New York this week. Lamothe was accompanied by Haiti Foreign Minister Pierre-Richard Casimir. Zuma led a delegation including Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane. The talks […]

Belize, Suriname Foreign Ministers Meet With OAS in New York

 Above: Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos (UN Photo/J Carrier) By the Caribbean Journal staff The international community must continue full engagement with Haiti, Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos said during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Wednesday. “If there is a country in our hemisphere that requires peacebuilding as a […]

Dominican Republic Complex Listed for Sale at $95.4 Million

 Above: the Riu complex in the Dominican Republic By the Caribbean Journal staff A group of RIU hotel properties in the Dominican Republic area of Puerto Plata is being put on the market for $95.4 million. Miami-based real estate brokerage Fortune International’s FGD Group has the listing on the property, which includes 1,590 rooms across […]

UN: Public Sector Donors in Haiti Have Disbursed $2.79 Billion Since 2010

Above: Bill Clinton visiting Haiti in 2010 (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff A total of $2.79 billion in public sector pledges has been disbursed in Haiti since 2010, according to an analysis from the United Nations Office of the Special Envoy for Haiti. That number represents a disbursement rate of 52.3 percent. […]

Op-Ed: A Death in Kingston

 By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Retired Senior Superintendent Anthony Hewitt was shot dead by gunmen last week in Kingston. This was very bad news for Jamaica’s law enforcement community and the international agencies with whom they cooperate. It was a virtual kick in the teeth to the Rule of Law in Jamaica. With an economy […]

Bahamas Government: Ratings Revision Unfortunate, But Not Unexpected

 Above: Nassau (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Standard & Poor’s decision Monday to lower its outlook on the Bahamas to negative was unfortunate, but not unexpected, according to a statement from the Bahamian government. The government said it inherited a “deteriorating fiscal situation where the deficit target was overshot by a wide margin.” […]

Haiti's Martelly Welcomes New Ambassador from European Union

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly and EU Ambassador Javier Pérez Niño (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly accepted the credentials Monday of the European Union’s new Ambassador, Javier Pérez Niño. Niño, a native of Spain, was joined by Joao De Santana, the Charge d’Affaires of the EU’s delegation in […]

US Virgin Islands Governor Nominates Three New Judges

Above: the Alexander A Farrelly Justice Centre in St Thomas By the Caribbean Journal staff US Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh has nominated three attorneys as Superior Court Judges. Denise Hinds has been nominated as a judge in the court’s Family Division on St Croix to replace Judge Patricia Steele for a six-year term. […]

Marcia Forbes: Jamaica's Inner-City Boys Defy Robert Mugabe

 By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor After Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe’s recent piercing comments about Jamaican males, it was heartening to analyze responses from 57 inner-city residents who attend non-traditional high schools on the island. They gave their opinions about what the Internet means to them and did this in writing in response to an […]