Aristide to Make First Public Appearance

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - September 14th, 2011

Above: Aristide on a United Nations visit while president (UN Photo: Milton Grant)

Former Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide will make his first major public appearance since his return to Haiti in March, delivering a speech and inaugurating the expansion of his university. The University of the Aristide Foundation, which closed in 2004, reopened in 2008. [Telegraph]

Haiti

CARICOM, UN Meet on Crime

Above: the UN and CARICOM teams (Photo: TGISL) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM and the United Nations met yesterday to review earlier deliberations between the two bodies on the issue of crime. Delegations from CARICOM’s Implementation Agency for Crime and Security and the UN’s Office on Drugs and Crime expressed a desire to strengthen […]

Haiti

Trinidad, China Sign $6.2M Agreement

Above: China and Trinidad sign a cooperation agreement (Photo: TGISL) Trinidad and China signed a $6.2 million agreement Tuesday, the latest in a series of economic and cooperation agreements between China and Caribbean countries at the China-Caribbean forum in Port of Spain. Trinidad Foreign Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan signed on behalf of Trinidad, while China’s […]

Haiti

For Bahamian Women, a Story in Art

Above: Lyndah Wells’ The Walking Reds (Courtesy of BIS) The Bahamas’ Public Treasury Department has turned its first five floors on Nassau’s East Street into an art gallery featuring the works of Bahamas’ female artists. Entitled “Bahama Mama,” the exhibition features a series of young Bahamian women artists, several of whom have made international impacts. […]

CARICOM Looks at State of Cricket

Above: Cricket’s pan-Caribbean future is being evaluated (Photo: Digicel Cricket) By the Caribbean Journal staff During the CARICOM Meeting of Heads of Government in Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis in July, the conference expressed serious doubt about the future of West Indies cricket. Accordingly, led by Charirnan Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, […]

Isadore Sharp, Founder of Four Seasons, on the Caribbean, Social Media and the Future

Above: Isadore Sharp (Photo: Four Seasons) By Alexander Britell In 1961, Isadore Sharp was a neophyte in the hospitality industry who had just opened his first property in Toronto. Fifty years later, the company he founded and built, Four Seasons, is at the top of the global luxury hotel industry, with hotels across the world, […]

China to Loan Caribbean $1 Billion

China-Caribbean Forum Begins in Trinidad

Above: Trinidad Minister Stephen Cadiz and Chinese Ambassador Yang Youming at the opening of the forum (Photo: China Ministry of Commerce Website) By the Caribbean Journal staff The China-Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation Forum is set to begin Monday for a two-day meeting covering a wide range of Sino-Caribbean agendas. China Vice Premier Wang Qishan […]