Above: downtown Nassau (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamians at home and abroad officially began their 2012 election Tuesday with the country’s Advance Poll. The Bahamas, which has typically boasted very strong electoral turnout, has typically permitted advance […]

Above: Jamaican National Security Minister Peter Bunting (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s murder rate has fallen from a rate of 3.1 per day to two per day, according to National Security Minister Peter Bunting. That represents a […]

Above: Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and Works Minister Dr Omar Davies at a JEEP project site earlier this year (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government says it has created approximately 3,000 new jobs under the […]

Above: Belize’s Wilfred Elrington and Guatemala’s Harold Caballeros (OAS Photo/Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize and Guatemala’s Foreign Ministers have agreed on a date for simultaneous referenda in the two countries on the issue of Guatemala’s territorial claim […]