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Southwest Airlines Is Adding Flights From Las Vegas to Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta

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Southwest Airlines is expanding its international network this winter with new nonstop service from Las Vegas to two of Mexico’s most popular beach destinations: Los Cabos and Puerto Vallarta. The new routes, launching in June 2026, will give travelers in the western United States more direct access to Mexico’s Pacific coast. Both destinations are known […]

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Jamaicans Still Buying into Financial Schemes

Jamaica’s FSC Senior Management Team Jamaica has been home to the high-profile OLINT issue, what some have dubbed the Caribbean’s version of the Bernard Madoff controversy. But according to the Jamaican Financial Services Commission, there are 64 unregulated investment schemes on the books, as Jamaicans apparently continue to put their money in the hands of […]

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U.S. Prosecutors: No Bond for Buju

Buju Banton a.k.a. Mark Myrie The U.S. Government filed its response to Buju Banton’s motion for bond following his conviction last week in his high-profile narcotics trial. Assistant United States Attorney James Preston, Jr. argued that Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, was not entitled to the order Banton sought releasing him from custodial […]

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Words Fly After Bahamian Opposition Walks out of Parliament

The opposition walked out of the Bahamian House of Assembly on Thursday night, and now some public accusations have been made concerning Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham. The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) walked out of the House during a budget debate. While MP Philip Brave Davis, who represents Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador, was […]


U.S. Prosecutors: No Bond for Buju

By the Caribbean Journal Staff The latest International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) compiled by the U.S. State Department showed Jamaica continuing to be the largest Caribbean supplier of marijuana to America.  It also made several indictments of public corruption and pointed to the Extradition Crisis as a factor in reduced anti-drug efforts. A series […]

Golding, in Letter, Holds to Claim That Manatt Did Not Work for Government

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in a letter to the Commission of Enquiry investigating the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips extradition scandal, maintained that the Government did not hire the Manatt firm to lobby the White House on behalf of Christopher Coke. The Jamaica Labour Party has offered a waiver for a representative of the firm […]

Fire destroys Haitian Village in the Bahamas

The question of increased Haitian immigration is nothing new to the Bahamas — but new problems are beginning to emerge in the so-called “Haitian villages” set up by immigrants. A fire broke out in a shantytown off Fire Trail Road in New Providence, leaving hundreds homeless. Supreintendent Jeffrey Delevaux, director of fire services, said the […]

Senator Al-Rawi on Trinidad Protest

By Alexander Britell As attention in the United States focuses on a sometimes-ugly battle by public servants and the government over benefits, public-employee protesters are turning Port-of-Spain into a more civilized version of Madison, Wisconsin. Nearly 150 protestors demonstrated outside the Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago yesterday, with the tumult loud enough to bring […]

Lightbourne Set to Take Stand

Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne is set to take the stand at the Manatt Commission of Enquiry today, Lightbourne will testify today if former Jamaica Labour Party general secretary, Karl Samuda, finishes his testimony in today’s session. Yesterday, Prime Minister Golding, through his attorney, asked the commission to consider his ministerial obligations in […]

IMF Back in Antigua on Performance Review

The International Monetary Fund has sent a team to Antigua for a third review of the nation’s performance on a stand-by arrangement with the IMF. According to the Ministry of Finance, the IMF team began the review Monday and will be on the island until Friday. Antigua and Barbuda passed two reviews required by the […]

Jamaica PM May Not Testify

The man whose testimony may be the most important of any in the Jamaican Commission of Enquiry concerning the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair, Prime Minister Bruce Golding, is asking the commission to consider his “obligation to attend to the business of the people of Jamaica and the machinery of Government,” the prime minister said […]