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Interview With Seaborne Airlines CEO Omer ErSelcuk

Above: a Seaborne plane By Alexander Britell With the departure of American Eagle from the Caribbean, the region’s aviation industry continues to change. But while many predicted doom, airlines large and small, from Cape Air to JetBlue, are working to […]

Op-Ed: The Caribbean and Thatcher

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Baroness Margaret Thatcher’s name will always have a distinguished connotation in the Caribbean. Thatcher died at the Ritz London Hotel on Monday after a stroke. In many ways, Thatcher can be considered a unique politician […]

Op-Ed: China and the Caribbean

By Erik Neff Op-Ed Contributor IT HAS BEEN NO SECRET that China has taken a strategic economic interest in the Caribbean region. China’s intention to expand its financial influence has been crystal clear — it is seeking new political alliances […]

Dennis Chung: The Role of Government in Caribbean Economies

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor MY MOTHER USED TO SAY of children, it is sometimes better to be seen and not heard. These were of course in the days when parents ruled children, and not as it is today. So […]

Solving Jamaica’s Foreign Exchange Crisis

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor OVER THE LAST WEEK there have been two issues dominating the media in Jamaica, which illustrates to me that Jamaica’s foreign exchange crisis is driven primarily by the way we approach challenges. The first is […]

As Haiti Develops Tourism Sector, It Looks to Aruba for Inspiration

Above: Aruba PM Mike Eman and Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe (Photo: OPM Haiti) By Alexander Britell In a region with few natural resources, tourism is to the Caribbean as oil is to the Middle East. To be sure, some countries […]

Rum Journal: Papa’s Pilar: A Rum for Ernest Hemingway

“I ordered a Rum St James. This tasted wonderful on the cold day and I kept on writing, feeling very well and feeling the good Martinique rum warm me all through my body and my spirit.” — Ernest Hemingway, A […]

Op-Ed: Is Cuba Really Changing?

By Andy Gomez Op-Ed Contributor We recently witnessed what we had not heard one of the Castro brothers say in almost 54 years: Come 2018, neither one of them will be in power. Raúl Castro announced to the Cuban National […]

Grenada Plans to Restructure Debt

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s government will undertake a “comprehensive and collaborative restructuring of its public debt, it announced this weekend. The government said “circumstances have forced” the move, which will include its US and […]

CHTA President Richard Doumeng Talks Caribbean Travel

Above: the Bolongo Bay Resort in St Thomas By Alexander Britell On Thursday, the long-awaited redesign of caribbeantravel.com officially launched. The new site, viewed as a new kind of portal for the Caribbean travel market, comes as the region faces […]

Developing Tourism in Haiti: An Interview With Minister Stephanie Villedrouin

Above: Haiti Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell In June 2012, Caribbean Journal spoke to Haiti Tourism Minister Stephanie Villedrouin about her plans to grow Haiti’s largely undeveloped tourism sector into something far bigger. At the time, […]

Trinidad and Tobago Leads Caribbean in Exports of Goods to EU

Above: Port of Spain By the Caribbean Journal staff The European Union imports more goods from Trinidad and Tobago than any other country in the Caribbean, according to data released by the EU. The numbers were released to coincide with […]

Interview with Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille

Above: Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille at CHTA Travel Marketplace in the Bahamas (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PARADISE ISLAND — Like fellow French department Guadeloupe, Martinique has maintained a relatively low profile for travelers in markets like the US […]

In Jamaica, An Eye on the Creative

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean is increasingly looking to the creative sector for pathways to growth; Jamaica should be no different in this regard, according to Harold Davis, deputy chief executive officer of the […]

US Virgin Islands Receives Federal Funds for Economic Development

Above: USVI By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States Virgin Islands has been awarded more than $1.4 million in economic development funding from the US Department of Commerce. Of the funding, $1 million will be used to help establish […]

Grenada Planning Yachting Push

Above: yachting in Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada is planning to strengthen the country’s yachting sector with a new $375,000 investment. The grant, which came from the Caribbean Development Bank-administered CARTfund, will go toward expanding the marine and […]

Antigua and Barbuda Identifies “Five Pillars” of Tourism Growth Strategy

Above: The Inn in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda’s government has outlined “Five Pillars” of its overhauled tourism strategy, according to Tourism Minister John Maginley. The country’s 2013 tourism initiatives will focus on the areas of […]

Caribbean Journal’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2012: Jamaica’s Tyrone Wilson

Above: Sagicor Life CEO Richard Byles and Tyrone Wilson (right) CARIBBEAN GOVERNMENTS often mention the need for the region to go digital. ICT — information and communications technology, for countries that have few natural resources, is a way to diversify […]

Op-Ed: Kent Gammon on Reversing Jamaica’s Economic Decline

By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor THE JAMAICAN ECONOMY continues to lag behind the rest of the world with a dismal 1.3 percent growth forecast for 2013. The Jamaican dollar is being sold officially for 92 dollars to one US […]

Dennis Chung: Jamaica’s Economy in 2013

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor ONE QUESTION I get a lot is: what is to be expected of economic performance in Jamaica in 2013? In particular, people want to know about the IMF agreement, the exchange rate, inflation, and GDP […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica and Wall Street

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor THE FACT THAT Barbados’ government bonds have been downgraded to junk status was not a good development for the reputation of the Commonwealth Caribbean in international financial markets. Both Moody’s and Standard and Poors now […]

American Airlines to Add Grenada Flight

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff American Airlines will be re-introducing a fourth flight to Grenada beginning next week, the government announced this week. The move comes after American had announced a reduction in its schedule in […]

Tillman Thomas: Sandals a Potential “Game-Changer” for Grenada

Above: Sandals LaSource Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff The entry of resort company Sandals to Grenada’s market is a “tide that could lift all boats” in the tourism industry, Grenada Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said following the launch of […]

Bahamas and Dominican Republic Considering Joint Business Council

Above: the Dominican Republic’s Jean Alain Rodriguez and the Bahamas’ Ryan Pinder (BIS Photo/Eric Rose) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas and the Dominican Republic are considering establishing a joint business council with members of the private sector of […]

Op-Ed: Trade Unions in Modern Jamaica

Above: Kingston By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor The trade union movement’s early days in Jamaica The trade unions of Jamaica came into prominence in the workers’ riots of 1938. At that time the workers were protesting the level of […]

S&P Raises Grenada’s Foreign Currency Rating After Coupon Payment

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Standard & Poor’s has raised Grenada’s foreign currency sovereign credit ratings on Grenada Tuesday after the country made a coupon payment it had earlier missed. The country’s rating has been raised […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica’s Language Dilemma

By Richard Smith Op-Ed Contributor Jamaica has in recent times had a vigorous debate on the use of Patois (pronounced Patwa) as its official language, replacing English. This view has been fueled by poor results in CSEC English exams, which […]

IDB’s Moreno, in Barbados, Calls on Caribbean to Promote SMEs

Above: IDB President Luis Alberto Moreno (OAS Photo/Juan Manuel Herrera) By the Caribbean Journal staff Latin American and the Caribbean need to promote the development of small and medium-sized companies in order to make process on poverty reduction efforts, Inter-American […]

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