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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 […]
EFM Hospitality’s John Murphy on Tobago, Haiti and Caribbean Tourism
Above: the Magdalena Grand Beach Resort By Alexander Britell PARADISE ISLAND — The Caribbean tourism sector is starting to rebound — with improved hotel occupancy and arrivals, despite increased competition from markets around the world. EFM Hospitality Solutions has been […]
Durandis: Rethinking Education in Haiti
By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor FOR MANY HAITIAN STUDENTS, the day starts before sunrise and ends well past sunset. In Haiti, the road to education is not only hard — at times inaccessible — but, plainly put, the end often […]
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 […]
Marcia Forbes: Jamaica’s Inner-City Boys Defy Robert Mugabe
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor After Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe’s recent piercing comments about Jamaican males, it was heartening to analyze responses from 57 inner-city residents who attend non-traditional high schools on the island. They gave their opinions about […]
Usain Bolt: “I Am Very Pleased” With Olympic Performance
Above: Usain Bolt in Kingston Tuesday (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Usain Bolt was honoured Tuesday for his accomplishments at the London Olympics, where he won the gold medal in the 100m and 200m races, and set an […]
Forbes: Jamaica, Women and ICT
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor ICT for Women & Girls – Why? World Telecommunication and Information Society Day was May 17. This year’s theme focused on Achieving Equality in ICT for Women and Girls. The State Minister in the […]
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 […]
Cigars: The Heart and Soul of Cuba: An Interview with James Suckling
By Alexander Britell While Cuban cigars are renowned the world over for their quality and their history, the process of how Cuban cigars are made – and just what they mean to the Cuban people – have remained largely unexplored, […]
Interview with Marcia Forbes, PhD
By Alexander Britell One of Jamaica’s foremost media specialists, Dr Marcia Forbes has most recently been exploring the ways technology impacts Jamaican society and culture. Her first book, Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica, looked at the ways traditional […]
Interview with Professor Ian Boxill
By Alexander Britell Jamaica’s elections are quickly heating up, and one of those monitoring the political developments closely is University of the West Indies Professor Ian Boxill, who is the Carlton Alexander Chair in Management Studies. Dr Boxill is also […]
Op-Ed: Marcia Forbes: Social Media – Much More Than a Joke
By Marcia Forbes, PhD It’s important to make the deadline for my book but I’m constantly being distracted. This time it’s by the very subject on which I’m writing, social media. Very early in the morning of Nov. 30, I […]
Working to Preserve Reggae’s Identity
Above: Carlyle McKetty (left) and Sharon Gordon By Alexander Britell For Carlyle McKetty and Sharon Gordon, protecting reggae is a way of life. The world recently marked the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley’s premature death, and in that time, much […]
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