At the all-inclusive Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas, the water in front of the beach is usually busy with fins and masks. Guests drift over the sandy bottom, scanning the bay the way snorkelers always do, eyes tuned for movement, color, something worth stopping for. Then someone spots glass. Not coral, not sea […]
Above: Cartagena’s historic centre (Caribbean Journal photo: KU) By Alexander Britell Santo Domingo. Havana. Kingston. Port-au-Prince. San Juan. These are the cities that are typically mentioned in conversations about the largest Caribbean cities. But there’s another city on the Caribbean Sea that’s among the biggest in the region, one that has heretofore remained under the […]
Above: the Bahamas (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A delegation of nine Bahamian officials recently visited Haiti for high-level talks on agriculture. The delegation, led by Bahamas Agriculture Minister Alfred Gray, spent three days on an official visit to Haiti. The purpose of the visit was to check and discuss zoo-phytosanitary standards and […]
Above: Aruba By the Caribbean Journal staff Fitch Ratings has downgraded Aruba’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer ratings to BBB- from BBB, the New York-based ratings firm announced. The firm said the island’s sovereign creditworthiness had “deteriorated” since 2009 due to the “negative impact of recent suspensions of operations at the Valero refinery.” But […]
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