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Tim Peck: For a Sustainable Tourism Model, Look to Antigua

Above: Carlisle Bay, Antigua By Tim Peck The Caribbean tourism industry waits with bated breath for the announcement of the OECS Common Tourism Policy on October 1. As the first policy of its kind for our region, a tourism blueprint […]

China, Jamaica Sign Agricultural Deals

China Vice Premier Hui Liangyu pledged his government’s commitment to helping Jamaica with its economic and social development, speaking at the beginning of his visit to the country yesterday. The two countries have shared relations for 39 years, and signed […]

Interview with Chef Eric Ripert on Grand Cayman and Caribbean Cuisine

By Alexander Britell In 2008, world-renowned Chef Eric Ripert spearheaded the opening of the Blue restaurant at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman. Ripert, whose Le Bernardin in New York City holds the highest-possible three Michelin stars as one of the world’s […]

Jamaica Bets on Cocoa

By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is intensifying efforts to regain its prominence in the cocoa market, with an EU- and USAID-backed plan to rehabilitate approximately 2,000 acres of production by the end of the 2011-2012 crop, and increase production […]

Ed Robinson on the Global Art Form

Ed Robinson occupies several seats in the world of reggae—from a long career as a reggae drummer to broad work now as a reggae singer. It’s taken him from his native Jamaica to Brooklyn, which he now calls home. Caribbean […]

Grenada’s “Golden” Opportunity

By Lincoln Depradine Grenada’s Works and Physical Development Minister, Joseph Gilbert, is excited about a Chinese offer of monetary assistance for regional infrastructural development. “Grenada and other Caribbean countries now have a golden opportunity to undertake much-needed investment in developing […]

New St Kitts Police Commissioner Walwyn Offers Gangs an Olive Branch

Above: from left, Prime Minister Denzil Douglas and Commissioner CG Walwyn By the Caribbean Journal staff New Commissioner of the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force CG Walwyn is extending an olive branch to the gangs, along with a […]

Talking Reggae with Ossie Dellimore

Reggae star Ossie Dellimore has built a varied career in the art form with albums like “Freedom’s Journal,” “Reggae Music” and the recent single “Gone So Far.” The native of St Vincent and the Grenadines’ style is at the cutting […]

St Kitts Looks to Taiwan for Tourism Help

Above: Charlestown, Nevis (Photo: Caribbean Journal) The federation of St Kitts and Nevis is sending 16 nationals to Taiwan to begin courses at the country’s National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism. The students will be focusing on restaurant management, […]

Isadore Sharp, Founder of Four Seasons, on the Caribbean, Social Media and the Future

Above: Isadore Sharp (Photo: Four Seasons) By Alexander Britell In 1961, Isadore Sharp was a neophyte in the hospitality industry who had just opened his first property in Toronto. Fifty years later, the company he founded and built, Four Seasons, […]

Cayman Looks at Minimum Wage

Following the lead of Grenada, Cayman Islands lawmakers voted to support the introduction of a minimum wage of $5.83 per hour for workers in the islands. The motion to amend the country’s Labour Law was brought by MP Ezzard Miller. […]

Uruguayan Investigators in Haiti

Above: peacekeepers in Haiti’s Cite Soleil (UN Photo) A high-level contingent of Uruguayan investigators has arrived in Haiti to probe the alleged sexual assault of a young man by Uruguyan peacekeepers working for the UN. UN spokesperson Eliane Nabaa told […]

Economist Dr Michael Witter on Debt, Globalisation and the Jamaican Economy

By Alexander Britell Dr Michael Witter is an economist and senior lecturer at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies Mona. He is also one of the Caribbean’s experts on […]

Guyana, Mexico Strengthen Ties

Above: Guyanese FM Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Mexican Ambassador Fernando Sandoval sign the MOU (Photo: GINA) Guyana and Mexico today signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at establishing a consultative mechanism to focus on all aspects of relations between the countries. […]

New Film Looks at How Diaspora Travels

By Alexander Britell Above: Dr Keith Nurse A new film set to premiere in Toronto Wednesday looks at the concept of “diasporic tourism” or the way the Caribbean diaspora travels back to its home countries. The film, “Forward Home,” is […]

In Jamaica’s Spanish Town, One Woman’s Crusade against Gun Violence

Above: Spanish Town By Alexander Britell While the Jamaican government released a report last week showing a dramatic drop in violence, including murders, the country still faces a tall order in controlling the problem — evidenced by a rash of […]

Jamaica: $58M on Foreign Drug Imports

Above: Health Minister Rudyard Spencer The Jamaican government has spent more than $58 million on pharmaceutical imports over the last four years, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Ministry statistics show budgetary allocations increased nearly 270 percent from 2007 […]

Trinidad Extends State of Emergency for Three Months, Reduces Curfew Times

Above: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Photo: TGISL) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago has extended its State of Emergency for three months, the government announced today. A motion to extend the State of Emergency, which was accompanied by […]

Jamaica Bets on a New Export: Honey

The first shipment of Jamaican honey produced under a joint venture between the government, the All-Island Bee Farmers’ Association and the Boston Diaspora Ventures LLC could hit overseas markets in six months, according to Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Robert […]

Digicel Group CEO Colm Delves on 4G, a Dynamic Haiti and Caribbean Integration

By Alexander Britell Colm Delves has been Digicel Group CEO since 2005, after joining the company as Group Chief Financial Officer in 2004. Delves has overseen a fourfold increase in the number of markets the company reaches, helping to bring […]

Christopher Coke Pleads Guilty

Jamaican strongman Christopher Coke has pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges in US Federal Court. Coke faces a maximum of 23 years in prison, although the deal does not involve any further cooperation with the government. “I’m pleading guilty because […]

Canadian Senator Don Meredith Talks CARICOM, Free Trade and Caribbean Tech

By Alexander Britell Senator Don Meredith is one of the leading figures of the Caribbean diaspora. A native of Jamaica, Meredith is an ordained minister, and was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 2010. Meredith, who immigrated to Canada in […]

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund Grants $1.4 Million for Construction, Green Energy

By the Caribbean Journal staff Above: construction in Haiti (Photo: Clinton Bush Haiti Fund) The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is granting $1.4 million in new funds for three projects in Haiti, including a housing programme, a vocational training programme and […]

Grenada Officially Joins International Criminal Court in The Hague

Above: Grenada Ambassador Stephen Fletcher and ICC President Sang-Hyun Song (UN Photo) Three months after Grenada deposited its instrument of accession to the Rome Statute, the country joined the International Criminal as a new state party. The domestic Grenadian statute […]

Author Matthew Parker on Sugar and the Rise and Fall of the British West Indies

Above: a sugar mill in the 17th century (Photo: www.matthewparker.co.uk) By Alexander Britell The Caribbean was built largely on the success of its sugar crop — and the story of the success and decline of “white gold,” and the wide-ranging […]

In the Bahamas, Help for Organic Farming

By Gladstone Thurston IICA’s Bahamas representative, Dr Marikis Alvarez (left), farmer Kirk Deleveaux, Edison Key (centre) and assistant general manager for agriculture, Arnold Dorsett (BIS Photo) The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture is continuing its push for agricultural development […]

Inside David Smith’s OLINT Sentence

By Robert Di Pano United States authorities are now seeking restitution and asset forfeiture from failed OLINT Ponzi schemer David Smith after his 30-year prison sentence for wire fraud and money laundering was announced Aug. 11. US Federal District Court […]

A New Owner for Marcus Garvey’s Home

The Jamaican Cabinet has approved the compulsory acquisition of the birthplace of national hero Marcus Garvey, the Jamaica National Heritage Trust announced Thursday. Garvey was born at 32 Market Street in St Ann’s Bay in St Ann. The government made […]

Marriott Just Opened a New Hotel in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico