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Bernie Williams to Headline Dominican Republic Jazz Festival

Above: Bernie Williams By the Caribbean Journal staff New York Yankees legend and jazz guitarist Bernie Williams will headline the 2013 Dominican Republic Jazz Festival at the end of this month. Williams will be joined by stars such as Rufus […]

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Martinique Readies For CTO State of the Industry Conference

Above: Fort de France (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The French island of Martinique will be putting its tourism industry on full display next week as the first-time host of the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Industry […]

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Haiti: United Nations Extends Peacekeeping Mission For One Year

Above: UN peacekeepers in Haiti (UN Photo/Jesus Serrano Redondo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to extend the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Haiti until mid-October of 2014. The unanimous vote also slightly reduced the […]

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Tourism and Caribbean Agriculture

By the Caribbean Journal staff As more and more countries in a tourism-dependent region make the push to restore their agriculture industries, exploring linkages between agriculture and tourism is a “natural fit,” according to Guyana Tourism Authority Director Indranauth Haralsingh. […]


Antigua Launches Training For Mobile App Development

Above: the training workshop this week By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda’s recently-opened ICT Cadet Training Facility recently held its first training workshop on the development of mobile apps. The workshop, which the government said was oversubscribed, is […]


Grenada PM Heads to Washington

Above: Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell departed the country Thursday for a visit to Washington. Mitchell is traveling to the US to participate in the annual meetings at […]

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Atlantis Resort to Open in China

Above: a rendering of Atlantis Sanya Hainan By the Caribbean Journal staff A Bahamian icon will soon open in China. Kerzner International announced this week that it would be developing the Atlantis, Sanya Hainan on Hainan island in China. Kerzner […]


Talking Development in Eleuthera

After suffering seriously during the downturn, the Caribbean real estate market seems to be picking up steam. That’s true on the Bahamian island of Eleuthera, where a new project called French Leave Harbour Village has already completed several units. To […]


Caribbean Idea: Should the Caribbean Host a Formula 1 Race?

THE CARIBBEAN is competing not just against the other regions of the hemisphere, but the rest of the world. So it needs some big ideas to develop and to compete. Our new feature, Caribbean Idea, will pose questions about the […]

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The Caribbean's Undiscovered Places

You may have been to one of these places. And of course, they have been discovered — in today’s world, it’s hard to hide anything. But most people haven’t discovered these far-off places in the Caribbean for themselves — the parts […]


US Congressman: Results of Aid to Haiti "Aren't Impressive"

Above: Congressman Ed Royce By the Caribbean Journal staff Despite hundreds of millions of dollars appropriated for Haiti, the results of United States aid to the country “aren’t impressive,” according to US Congressman Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign […]


CARICOM's LaRocque Urges Caribbean Nations to Shift to CCJ

Above: CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque is calling on CARICOM Member States to make the Caribbean Court of Justice their final court of appeal, if they have not already done […]


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