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Durandis: On the Resignations in Haiti

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor OFTEN, WHEN ONE ASKS average Haitians, “how are things?” there is the simple answer of: “Nou la, n’ap kenbe,” we are here, we’re holding up. That might give the impression that all is well. But […]

Cape Air, Regional Carriers Step Up As American Eagle Departs Caribbean

Above: a Cape Air plane in Vieques (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell The last flight from Tortola on Sunday night marked the end of the American Eagle era in the Caribbean, a process that has been in the works for […]

Op-Ed: Obama and the Caribbean

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor IF UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s foreign policy can be criticized, it can be on the basis that it has been somnolent and reactionary with regard to Caribbean policy. Neither the United States nor […]

Puerto Rico’s Culinary Dynamism

Above: Chef Robert Treviño By Alexander Britell MIAMI – IN APRIL, chefs from across Puerto Rico, the Caribbean and the world will gather in San Juan for the sixth annual Saborea Puerto Rico culinary festival. The event will highlight Puerto […]

Haiti Assumes CARICOM Chairmanship for First Time

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell Haiti President Michel Martelly has begun his six-month term as Chairman of the Caribbean Community’s Conference of Heads of Government, vowing to “accelerate” Haiti’s inclusion in the regional integration movement. […]

Michel Martelly, in Miami, Vows to “Change the Way Haiti is Perceived”

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly in North Miami Beach (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell MIAMI — Haiti President Michel Martelly traveled to South Florida Monday for a meeting with the country’s Diaspora community, offering a defence of the first […]

Interview with Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (UN Photo/ J Carrier) By Alexander Britell Haiti is trying to move the process of reconstruction into a higher gear. While the country’s GDP has been growing at a strong pace, natural disasters […]

Op-Ed: A Diaspora Policy for St Lucia

By Bertram Leon Op-Ed Contributor OVER THE PAST DECADE, we have been witnessing a growing number of countries becoming interested in revisiting, refreshing and rebuilding relations with their overseas populations. A contemporary subject of public policy, referred to as […]

In Mexico, Haiti’s Art on Display

Above: A Haitian student in Mexico shows his colleague one of the exhibition’s paintings (Photo: Embassy of Haiti in Mexico) By the Caribbean Journal staff A new exhibition in Mexico puts Haitian art at the forefront. “Haiti, Stories and Dreams” […]

Martelly: Aid to Haiti Should Focus on Long-Term Development

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly in Brooklyn this week (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Aid to Haiti should primarily be focused on a goal of long-term development, Haiti President Michel Martelly said this week. The comment came […]

Haiti Officially Opens Roi Henri Christophe Campus in Limonade

Above: the Roi Henri Christophe Centre for Higher Education (OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has officially opened the Roi Henri Christophe Centre for Higher Education in Limonade, a project funded by the government of the Dominican Republic […]

Haiti “Remains a Focus” for Canada

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly and Canadian Minister Bernard Valcourt (Photo: Canada DFAIT) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bernard Valcourt, Canada’s associate minister of national defence and minister of state, concluded a trade mission to Haiti and the Dominican Republic […]

Haiti’s Martelly Meets With EDH Utility

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly during his visit to Electricity of Haiti (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly made a visit Thursday to the headquarters of Haiti’s Electricity of Haiti utility to monitor the […]

Trinidad at 50: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Independence Address

Above: Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Photo: OPM Trinidad) Trinidad and Tobago marked the 50th anniversary of its independence Friday. The country achieved its independence from the Great Britain on Aug. 31, 1962. The following is the text of Trinidad […]

Interview with Bahamas Minister of Financial Services Ryan Pinder

Above: Nassau (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell Ryan Pinder was appointed as the Bahamas’ Minister of Financial Services following the Progressive Liberal Party’s return to power in May 2012. Pinder, an attorney by trade, heads a Ministry dealing with the […]

Op-Ed: Three Forgotten Architects of Jamaica’s Independence

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Jamaica has many heroes about whom we spend a great deal of time writing and teaching. However, there are some who contributed mightily to the development of the new Jamaica who tend to be forgotten. […]

Op-Ed: Working Together to Promote the Caribbean Tourism Brand

By Richard Doumeng Op-Ed Contributor 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA). It’s also a time of continuing challenges for tourism in the region. A prolonged state of economic uncertainty in the world. Airlift […]

Op-Ed: Let the Games Commence!

By Paul Brummell Op-Ed Contributor At 9 pm on Friday night, a newly cast bell that is larger than Big Ben will ring out from the Olympic Stadium and the eyes of one billion people across the globe will be […]

New Casino to Open in Bahamas’ Bimini

Above: the marina at the Bimini Bay Resort, the largest in the Bahamas (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamian island of Bimini will soon be home to a 10,000-square-foot full-service casino. The $24 million RAV Bahamas project, […]

Montserrat’s Police Must Fix “Gaps” in Operational Procedures: Review

Above: Montserrat By the Caribbean Journal staff The Royal Montserrat Police Service has “significant gaps in its operational procedures” that must be fixed to ensure that the community is served effectively, according to a review of the service commissioned by […]

Barbados and OAS Sign Agreement to Set Up Public Security Observatory

Above: downtown Bridgetown (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados and the Organization of American States have signed an agreement on a project aimed at improving information on crime and violence. The plan will provide computer equipment and software […]

Op-Ed: Trinidad Falls Short of Leadership Potential on CCJ Decision

By Michael W Edghill Op-Ed Contributor This week, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that the Partnership government of Trinidad would move forward on a plan to abolish the appellate jurisdiction of the London-based Privy Council. It was […]

Op-Ed: Dance and Jamaican Politics

By Lorenzo Smith Op-Ed Contributor Dance as an expression and practice of relations of power and protest, resistance and complexity, has been the subject of a number of historical and ethnographic analyses in recent years. These analyses complicate issues of […]

On the Ground: Journalism Ethics in Haiti

By Kathie Klarreich A few months into my Knight International Journalism Fellowship in Haiti, I was conducting a training session in a radio newsroom in the capital when a reporter danced through the open door. He proudly announced that he’d […]

Op-Ed: The Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association and CARICOM

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor It was in the late 1960s that management called me in to attend a meeting at the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association, at their then-new Duke Street headquarters in Kingston. I asked, “why me?” And I received […]

Digicel Acquires Haitian Firm Voila

Above: a Digicel stand in Haiti during Carnival By the Caribbean Journal staff Digicel Group has acquired Haitian mobile phone operator Voila from parent company Trilogy International Partners. Voila, formerly known as Communication Cellulaire d’Haiti, launched in Haiti in 1998. […]

Op-Ed: Nuclear Energy in Jamaica

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor Last year, the aspect of liquefied natural gas being of uncertain supply, and rapidly increasing in price, was brought to the forefront of the energy supply in Jamaica. Some months later, so-called “clean coal,” was […]

CARIFORUM and EU Sign $110M in Agreements; Allocations for Belize, Haiti

Above: EU Representative Robert Kopechy and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque sign the agreements (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Forum of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (CARIFORUM) and the European Union signed three financial agreements aimed at […]

A New Luxury Resort Is Coming to the Best Beach in Saint Lucia