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Doing Business in the Caribbean: CARIFORUM Needs Reform
By Paul Hay CJ Contributor THE RECENT report, Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, is one of a long-standing series of co-publications of the World Bank and International Financial Corporation, which records the global competitiveness of […]
Building Caribbean Data Journalism
By Gerard Best Op-Ed Contributor INTERNET USERS are bombarded daily with a vast world of digital content via news feeds, blogs, webcasts, live streams, image galleries, videoclips and sound bites. Access to huge information repositories is no longer restricted by […]
Who Will Lead Caribbean Transformation?
By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor Dr Shelton Nicholls, former deputy director of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, was right when he said Caribbean countries needed to ensure economic growth strategies address the current challenges as well as take […]
The Caribbean’s Incarceration Problem
By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor Every now and again, a report or statistic comes along that presents something genuinely surprising. A few weeks ago, that statistic came by way of a graphic shared through social media. The graphic showed the […]
Mangoes: The True Caribbean Currency
By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor FROM MY YEARS as a youth, to the present — an older youth (no comment), one thing has never ceased to amaze me; the power and value of a Mango. In the Caribbean, mangoes have […]
LaRocque: CARICOM in “Reform Process”
Above: CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff Forty years after its establishment, the Caribbean Community is the longest surviving integration grouping among developing countries, second only to the European Union, according to CARICOM Secretary General Irwin […]
CARICOM-United States Trade Up 39 Percent in the Last Three Years
Above: the fourth meeting of the US-CARICOM Trade and Investment Council in Georgetown (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bilateral trade between the Caribbean Community and the United States has grown by 39 percent in the last three years, […]
Guyana’s Ramotar: CARICOM’s Problems Are Not Insurmountable
Above: Guyana President Donald Ramotar By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM is not in any state of crisis, despite reports to the contrary, according to Guyanese President Donald Ramotar. While problems exist for CARICOM, they are not insurmountable, he said. […]
Canada to Support Local Economic Development in the Caribbean
Above: Canadian Minister of International Cooperation Beverley Oda (UN Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Canadian International Development Agency is funding a new project to support local economic development in the Caribbean. The Caribbean Local Economic Development project will […]
Talking Caribbean Small Business with the Inter-American Development Bank
By Alexander Britell The Inter-American Development Bank recently released a report containing the findings of a survey of 190 banks in the Latin America-Caribbean region. The bank wanted to gauge attitudes of commercial institutions in the area about small and […]
A Boost for Caribbean Small Businesses
Above: IFC Headquarters By the Caribbean Journal staff The International Finance Corporation, a division of the World Bank, and Barbados National Bank have launched the Caribbean SME Toolkit in Barbados today, bringing the country an online guide for small- and […]
Hyatt Is Adding Mr & Mrs Smith
Hyatt has entered into an agreement to acquire the London-based travel platform Mr & Mrs Smith. The company has a collection of more than 1,500 boutique and luxury hotels, including a large number in the Caribbean. Hyatt is acquiring the […]
The British Virgin Islands Has a New Luxury All-Inclusive Resort
Despite its surfeit of top private-island resorts, the British Virgin Islands has never had a full-fledged luxury all-inclusive resort — until now. The Aerial, the new private-island destination in the BVI, has transformed from what had been a full-buyout model into […]
The Hartling Group Has a New Project in Turks and Caicos
By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel agents and advisors. Subscribe […]
Saint Lucia Citizenship by Investment Program Extends COVID Discount
By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI Buyers seeking dual citizenship in the Caribbean will be pleased to know that St. Lucia’s Citizenship by Invest Program (CIP) recently announced it has extended its special COVID-19 offer through the end of 2022. St. […]
Barbados Tourism Has a New CEO
Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc has announced the appointment of a new chief executive officer, Caribbean Journal has learned. BTMI has appointed Jens Thraenhart to the role, effective Nov. 1. The news comes after Thraenhart was selected from what BTMI said […]
A New Marriott Resort Is Coming to Tobago
By Andrea Perez, Special Contributor to CJI To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel agents and advisors. Subscribe […]
US Virgin Islands Boutique Hotel on the Market for $1.9 Million
By Bob Curley, Special Contributor to CJI To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel agents and advisors. Subscribe […]
Mark Gaus on What’s Next for Real Estate in the Cayman Islands
By Alexander Britell, Editor-in-Chief, CJI It’s hard to imagine that there was a hotter real estate market in the Caribbean in recent years, with surging development from beachfront condos to residential resorts. So what’s next for Cayman in the midst […]
Marriott Buying Barbados’ Elegant Hotels to Fuel All-Inclusive Expansion
Marriott International is buying a major hotel group in Barbados. The world’s largest hotel company has reached an agreement to buy Barbados’ Elegant Hotels Group. Elegant Hotels owns and operates a total of seven hotel properties in Barbados, with a […]
Baha Mar Transaction Wins Deal of the Year
By Alexander Britell and Guy Britton The sale of the Baha Mar last year was named the Transaction of the Year 2017 at the recent CHRIS Caribbean hotel investment summit in Miami. The transaction involved the 1,000-acre Baha Mar on […]
Jamaica’s Big Plans for the Cruise Industry
BY GUY BRITTON It’s a booming industry in the Caribbean, and cruising shows no signs of slowing down. That’s particularly true in Jamaica, which has spent significant resources in recent years in an effort to improve its standing as a […]
The Baha Mar Is Now Open
It’s been a long time coming, but the Baha Mar has made its debut. The New Providence megaresort officially opened to guests on Monday, a major milestone for a project that first broke ground in 2011 and after a whirlwind […]
Dominican Republic’s Playa Grande, Amanera Sold
One of the Caribbean’s leading resorts has been sold. Residential resort investor Dolphin Capital Investors has entered an agreement to sell the 2,200-acre Playa Grande Golf and Resort Project, including the Amanera resort, to Third Point LLC, the company’s largest […]
Breaking: Baha Mar Sold
In a major development for the Bahamas and the region, the stalled $3.5 billion Baha Mar Resort project has finally been sold. Hong Kong-based conglomerate Chow Tai Fook Enterprises Limited, or CTFE, has signed an agreement to own and operate […]
Jamaica and the IMF: What’s Next?
Looking ahead for Jamaica and the IMF By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Jamaicans Fear IMF’s Exit Everyone in the room wanted Jamaica to remain in a strictly monitored formal IMF programme, complete with sanctions for missed targets. Some scoffed […]
Grenada’s New Green Energy Project
Grenada has launched a new project aimed at providing green energy to rural areas. The Renewable Energy for Rural Development Project is being funded through a grant of $170,000 in the form of bilateral assistance from South Korea’s government. The […]
Op-Ed: A Letter to Baroness Scotland
By Joan Grant Cummings Op-Ed Contributor Dear Baroness Scotland, We are a network of Caribbean feminist and women’s rights activists, policy-makers and scholars, and we are delighted with your recent election as Commonwealth Secretary-General and offer our warm congratulations to […]
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