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Month: January 2013

News

St Kitts Swears In New Governor General

Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has sworn in Sir Edmund Wickham as the twin-island federation’s new Governor General. The Governor General succeed Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, announced his retirement at the […]

Markets

Caribbean Home: A Gem on Cayman's Seven Mile Beach

The latest property to be featured in Caribbean Home is a four-bedroom, four-bathroom single-family home on Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach. The beachfront property, which is located on a 0.34-acre site opposite Galleria Plaza, was built in 2006 at 42 […]

News

Murders in Jamaica Reach Nine-Year Low, Remain "Unacceptably High"

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Murders in Jamaica reached a nine-year low in 2012 as part of a “significant reduction” in criminal activity, according to Jamaica National Security Minister Peter Bunting. But the 1,087 murders in […]

News

Antigua Ramps Up Construction Projects

Above: St John’s (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A number of new construction projects will launch in Antigua in 2013, led by the $200 million Bau Panel project. Bau Panel, which is 25 percent owned by the government […]


Op-Ed: Interpreting Haiti’s Revolution

By Celucien Joseph Op-Ed Contributor   THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION of 1791-1804 was the “Big Bang” of the New World and the first “Great Exodus” of enslaved Africans out of New World slavery. CRL James, championing the significance of the revolution […]


Haiti Launches Construction on New Parliament Building

Above: a rendering of the project By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has laid the first stone on a new planned Parliament building in Port-au-Prince. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and other Haitian government […]

News

Dates Set for CTO State of the Industry Conference in Martinique

Above: Fort de France, Martinique (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Martinique will be hosting the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Industry Conference from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18, the CTO announced in a release. The official opening […]


Contractor General Refers Jamaican Cabinet for Criminal Prosecution

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Office of the Contractor General in Jamaica said it formally referred Jamaica’s cabinet for criminal prosecution Wednesday, citing a failure to comply with statutory requisitions relating to a series of […]


Barbados Looking to Yachting Market for Tourism Growth

Above: Yachts in Bridgetown harbour (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados has invested almost $2 million to upgrade infrastructure at the inner basin of Bridgetown’s Careenage as part of a bid to develop yachting as a niche market […]

News

Haiti "Vehemently Protests" New US, Canada Travel Warnings

Above: Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s government said it “vehemently protests” the recent decision by the United States State Department to issue a new travel warning for the country, Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe’s office announced in a statement […]


Bimini Bay Hires Miami-Based KW Property Management

Above: Bimini Bay By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bimini Bay Resort in the Bahamas has tapped Miami-based KW Property Management and Consulting to manage its residential component. The resort, which will soon be adding a casino run by Malaysian […]


Alejandro Garcia Padilla Sworn In as New Governor of Puerto Rico

Above: Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla By the Caribbean Journal staff Alejandro Garcia Padilla was sworn in as the new governor of Puerto Rico in a ceremony in San Juan Wednesday. Padilla succeeds Luis Fortuno, whom he defeated in […]


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