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This Caribbean Island Has a UNESCO World Heritage Site With Sailing, History, and Boutique Hotels

antigua english harbour

You can feel the history on the corner of this Caribbean island before you even step through the gates. The stone walls rise from the water’s edge, flanked by tall masts and the gentle sway of yachts. This is Nelson’s Dockyard, the heart of English Harbour in Antigua, and one of the Caribbean’s most evocative […]

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CARICOM Establishes Health Agency

By the Caribbean Journal staff Above: From left, St Kitts Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar, UWI Chancellor George Alleyene. In background, from left, Trinidad Foreign Minister Dr Suruj Rambachan and Trade Minister Stephen Cadiz. (Photo: Government Information Services, Ltd). Caribbean leaders assembled in Basseterre, St Kitts signed the agreement establishing the […]

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REDjet Licence Controversy Continues between Barbados, Trinidad

The failure of new low-cost air carrier REDjet to obtain a licence to fly from Barbados to Trinidad continues to stoke tensions between the two countries, with Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart yesterday claiming that Trinidad was “second-guessing” his government’s aviation officials. “We in Barbados certified REDjet in Barbados as safe,” he said. “We are […]

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Sir Edwin Carrington Receives Order of Caribbean Community

Above: Carrington receives the award in St Kitts (Photo: Trinidad Government Information Services, Ltd) By the Caribbean Journal staff Sir Edwin Carrington, former secretary-general of CARICOM and Trinidad’s current ambassador to the body, was conferred with the Order of the Caribbean Community at the Meeting of the Heads of Government. Carrington, the longest-serving secretary general […]


REDjet Licence Controversy Continues between Barbados, Trinidad

Above: Santiago de Cuba Trinidad and Tobago is sending a delegation of local artists and cultural works to Cuba, led by Minister of the Arts and Multiculturalism Winston Peters. The group will be attending the 31st Annual Caribbean Festival in Santiago de Cuba from July 3 to July 9th. The festival is dedicated to a […]

Trinidad PM Shakes Up Cabinet: Energy Minister Replaced, Warner Reassigned

Above: Clockwise from left: PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Works Minister Jack Warner, new Public Administration Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, Transport Minister Devant Maharaj and new Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar reshuffled her cabinet today, naming a new energy minister and separating the Works and Transportation portfolio held by embattled Minister Jack Warner, who […]

Interview with Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley

By Alexander Britell Dr Keith Rowley is the leader of the opposition People’s National Movement in Trinidad and Tobago and the member of parliament for Diego Martin West, which he has represented since 1991. Rowley, has been a member of three cabinets, as trade minister, housing minister and agriculture minister. Caribbean Journal talked to Rowley […]

Trinidad Opposition to PM: Fire Warner

Above: M.P. Keith Rowley and Minister Jack Warner The opposition People’s National Movement in Trinidad and leader Keith Rowley have called for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to fire Trinidad Minister Jack Warner, who has been embroiled in a controversy involving international football body FIFA. Rowley had asked the Trinidad Commissioner of Police, Dwayne Gibbs, to […]

BP Shuts Down Trinidad Gas Platform to Improve Safety Standards

A BP platform (© BP P.L.C.) British Petroleum, which pumps approximately 60 percent of the natural gas in Trinidad and Tobago, announced that it had shut its Mahogany A offshore drilling platform in order to improve its safety standards. “Since the Gulf of Mexico incident there have been instituted a number of new safety measures,” […]

Jack Warner Quits FIFA

Jack Warner (Photo source: FIFA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Works Minister and FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has resigned from FIFA, in addition to leaving his other posts as head of CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union. Accordingly, the investigation into alleged bribery charges against him has been dropped. “As a consequence of […]

Trinidad Opposition Leader Asks Police to Begin Jack Warner Probe

Above: Trinidad’s Jack Warner Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is calling for Trinidad Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs to investigate whether Works Minister Jack Warner broke any laws in the alleged FIFA bribery scandal. Warner resigned from the international football body yesterday during an ongoing FIFA probe into alleged bribery activities, and FIFA accordingly […]

Edward Seaga: Warner Must Resign

Edward Seaga, left, and Jack Warner Former Jamaican Prime Minister and current President of the Football Association of Jamaica, Edward Seaga, called for embattled Trinidad Minister Jack Warner, the suspended head of CONCACAF, to resign. “We cannot continue this thing with Jack Warner, we simply cannot,” Seaga said. “The man has already committed himself and […]