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Barbados, Italy Meet on Airlift, Tax
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Aid Helps Haiti Renovate Prisons

Above: officials at a prison in Croix de Bouquets, Haiti (File Photo: UN) Earthquake aid has helped one particularly poor sector of Haiti — its prisons. A year and a half after the quake that devastated the nation, a group of countries including the U.S. and U.K., along with the United Nations, have begun initiatives […]

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Jamaica Monitors Gold Mine Leak

Dr Horace Chang (2nd left), addressing journalists about a toxic leak at the gold mine in Pennants, Clarendon, during a media briefing at the National Environment and Planning Agency yesterday. Others (from left) are: Chief Executive Officer, NEPA, Peter Knight; Permanent Secretary in the Ministry, Genefa Hibbert. Jamaica Monitors Gold Mine Leak The Jamaican Government […]

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Jamaica Seeks More Chinese Investment

Above: the Chinese embassy in Jamaica Above: the Chinese Embassy in Jamaica (Photo: Chinese Embassy) Jamaican Minister of Finance Audley Shaw said an invitation has been extended to the Chinese to expand their investments in the country. Shaw, who was speaking at the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce’s lunch forum at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel on […]

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Examining the Caribbean Region's Historical Connections to Latin America

Above: Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Anthony Johnson (standing), delivers a lecture on: ‘Historic Relations between Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean and Latin America’, at Canning House, in London, on July 19. Director General of Canning House, Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes is at left. (JIS Photo) Jamaica and the Caribbean at large have shared […]

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Martelly Honours Singer Wyclef Jean

Haitian President Michel Martelly has made Haitian singer and roving ambassador Wyclef Jean a Grand Officer of the National Order of Honor and Merit. Jean, whose own bid for the presidency was denied by the courts after ruling he was not sufficiently “resident” in the country to be eligible to run, received the honor in […]

Jamaica Seeks More Chinese Investment

 Haitian President Michel Martelly has made Haitian singer and roving ambassador Wyclef Jean a Grand Officer of the National Order of Honor and Merit. Jean, whose own bid for the presidency was denied by the courts after ruling he was not sufficiently “resident” in the country to be eligible to run, received the honor in […]

In Trinidad, New Hopes for an Old Fort

 Above: the view from Fort Abercromby (Photo: TIS) Trinidad is looking to an 19th-century British fort as a way of expanding tourism. Fort Abercromby, which was built by the British in 1804 as part of the fortification of Trinidad, is located in Las Cuevas, a popular tourist destination in the country, but one which has […]

Jamaica Signs Deal on Solar Testing

 The Jamaican Cabinet has approved an agreement for GreenRG Management to introduce, test and research its solar technology across the country. GreenRG has volunteered to test its technology for streetlights, buildings, water pumps and other infrastructure, and it will not cost the government. “The agreement with GreenRG is intended to facilitate a pilot project,” said […]

Report: Billions of Barrels of Bahamian Oil

By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by Ryder Scott commissioned by the Bahamas Petroleum Company has found potentially significant oil resources offshore. According to Ryder Scott’s “Competent Persons Report,” which examined newly-acquired seismic data and previous information, even low-end estimates suggest potentially billions of barrels of oil in the company’s exploration area. In a […]