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CARICOM, UN Meet on Crime

Above: the UN and CARICOM teams (Photo: TGISL) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM and the United Nations met yesterday to review earlier deliberations between the two bodies on the issue of crime. Delegations from CARICOM’s Implementation Agency for Crime […]

IDB Loans Guyana $5M for Electricity

Above: IDB headquarters By the Caribbean Journal staff The Inter-American Development Bank has loaned $5 million to Guyana to help improve the effectiveness of the country’s electricity sector. The plan aims to implement loss reduction measures and improve Guyana’s electrical […]

Trinidad Could Establish Gun Court

By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad’s State of Emergency, which was just extended for another three months, is presenting a new set of challenges as courts struggle to deal with a vastly-increased case load. One possibility to deal with the […]

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 […]

Grenada Raises Minimum Wage

Above: Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas (Photo: GIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada has increased the minimum wage for domestic workers and security guards in the country, according to Labour Minister Glynis Roberts. The announcement follows the receipt 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 […]

China Funds Housing for Carib Indians

The Chinese government is funding a housing project in the Carib Territory of Dominica, with the first tranche of funds already release for the construction of 41 new homes. Last year, the government of Dominica announced that it had offered […]

World Bank Report: St Kitts and Nevis Broadband Use Highest in Caribbean

Above: the narrows between St Kitts and Nevis (Photo: Caribbean Journal) St Kitts and Nevis has the highest fixed broadband subscription rates in the Latin American/Caribbean region, according to a report by the World Bank’s infoDev group. The rate of […]

New Report Shows How Mobile Phones Helped Haitian Earthquake Victims

Above: Victims of the Haitian earthquake queue up for water (UN Photo: Sophia Paris) A new report shows the way scientists mapped populations movements after Haiti’s earthquake using data from more than two million cell phone handsets. “We rapidly received […]

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 […]

Jamaica Sees Crime Reduction: Report

Above: Spanish Town Major crimes in Jamaica fell by 12.6 percent in the first six months of 2011, compared to the same period last year, according to the Planning Institute of Jamaica. There were 189 major crimes per 100,000 Jamaicans […]

LaRocque: Food Key to Development

By the Caribbean Journal staff Soaring food prices are a reminder of the level of attention which the Caribbean needs to pay to food security and production, CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque told CARICOM View this month. Nutrition was especially […]

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 […]

In Barbados, a New Look at Motor Racing

Above: racing at Alwyn Kirk (Photo: Digicel) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados’ government is preparing to introduce a new Sports Development Act aimed at hastening the development of the sporting sector on the island, including its motor racing industry, […]

The US Downgrade’s Impact on Jamaica

The downgrade of the United States’ credit rating by Standard and Poor’s earlier this month could have an impact on the Jamaican economy as part of increased global uncertainty, according to Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter. The BOJ has […]

Miami Prosecutor Plans Caribbean Basin Initiative to Fight Drug Trafficking

Above: US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Wifredo Ferrer announced Thursday the creation of a Florida Caribbean Basin Initiative aimed at combating […]

Jamaica Reports Positive Growth in 2Q

Above: Dr Gladstone Hutchinson, center, said the mining industry had outperformed all sectors (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Jamaican economy grew by 1.5 percent during the second quarter of this year, led by growth in mining, hospitality, agriculture […]

Haiti, Nepal Cholera Nearly Identical

Above: cholera treatment in Haiti (UN Photo: Marco Dormino) By the Caribbean Journal staff An article released yesterday in the online medical journal mBio found that Haiti’s cholera originated in Nepal, a claim first reported in a study by the […]

Barbados and Brazil Partner on Tourism

Above: Rio de Janeiro (Photo: Savoia Imoveis) Last June marked the inaugural flight between Sao Paulo, Brazil and Bridgetown, Barbados — the beginning of strengthening cultural and economic relations between the two countries. That flight, which used to be a […]

Broad Emergency Powers in Trinidad

Above: Minister of National Security Brigadier John Sandy with TTDF forces earlier this year (Photo: TIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad’s limited State of Emergency, declared Sunday night after 11 murders in one day in the country, includes several […]

Irwin Stotzky: Haiti, Here We Go Again

Above: a girl stands in front of her home for persons displaced by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (UN Photo: Logan Abassi) By Irwin Stotzky Op-Ed Contributor The news from Haiti is grim. Nineteen months after the devastating earthquake, the future […]

Caribbean, Central America Affirm Ties

Above: El Salvador Foreign Minister Carlos Castaneda and Suriname Foreign Minister Winston Lackin By the Caribbean Journal CARICOM and SICA, the Central American Integration Movement, reaffirmed ties between the two regional economic integration bodies following their meeting yesterday in El […]

CARICOM Recognition for Kosovo Possible

Above: Kosovo (UN Photo: Ferdi Limani) First Deputy Prime Minister of Kosovo Behgjet Pacolli said the CARICOM-Central American region, whose leaders are meeting in El Salvador this week, could recognize statehood for Kosovo. “We can confirm to you that we […]

Bahamas Row over Urban Renewal

Above: Deputy Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Labour Rudolph Pratt opening the Bain Grants Town Urban Renewal Centre in Nassau in March 2010. (BIS Photo/Raymond Bethel) By the Caribbean Journal staff A controversy has arisen in the Bahamas over […]

Interview with Four Seasons’ Andrew Humphries on Farm-to-Table, Nevis and Italian Tourists

Above: the Four Seasons Nevis Resort (Photo: Caribbean Journal) By Alexander Britell Four Seasons Caribbean Regional Vice President Andrew Humphries has overseen the $120 million reconstruction and renovation of the Four Seasons Nevis Resort, where he is the General Manager. […]

Interview with Dr Keith Nurse: What Climate Change Means for Caribbean Tourism

By Alexander Britell The Caribbean is continually looking for ways to emerge from the downturn. And with an economy largely dependent on tourism, a changing world economy – and a changing world climate — pose new problems for the region. […]

Norman Girvan on Irwin LaRocque and the Necessity of a Caribbean Parliament

Dr Norman Girvan, Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, is one of the foremost experts on Caribbean political economy. Girvan, who was formerly the Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States, was appointed last year as […]

Reaching Beyond Nevis, West Indies Power Explores Geothermal in Dominica

Above: West Indies Power CEO Kerry McDonald (Photo: Caribbean Journal) By the Caribbean Journal staff West Indies Power, which is already in the process of bringing geothermal power to Nevis, has been given approval by the government of Dominica for […]

Atlantis Paradise Island Is Bringing Barbie to The Bahamas