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What’s Next for Caribbean Cable?

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Shocked by Sinclair I was shocked at Gary Sinclair’s seeming honesty and openness as he responded to Journalist Dionne Jackson Miller’s probing questions about cable TV and copyright infringements. Sinclair is the head honcho […]

The Caribbean’s Big New Canal Project

Above: Lake NIcaragua By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors On Dec. 22, 2014, the Government of Nicaragua and the international infrastructure development firm, Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd. (HKND), publicly announced the commencement of the […]

Op-Ed: Rethinking PetroCaribe

By Jevon Minto Op-Ed Contributor The International Monetary Fund’s Director for the Western Hemisphere Department, Alejandro Werner, warned this week, during a forum held in Montego Bay on Unlocking Economic Growth in the Caribbean, that the likelihood of fallout in […]

UAE Investor Signs Agreement For $120 Million Hotel Project in Antigua

Above: Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne and Sheikh Tariq bin Faisal Al Qassimi By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua Prime Minister Gaston Browne has signed a memorandum of agreement with Sheikh Tariq bin Faisal Al Qassimi on a $120 million […]

What “Buy Jamaican” Should Mean

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor Earlier this week I attended a forum and was asked to answer some questions from the audience. The forum was about entrepreneurship and one person, an entrepreneur himself, addressed the audience and encouraged everyone that […]

Antigua Signs Deal For $740 Million Investment Project With Chinese Firm

Above: Antigua PM Gaston Browne and Director of Yida International Investment Antigua Limited, Yida Zhang, sign the agreement on Friday (Photo: ABG) By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda’s government says it has signed a memorandum agreement with a […]

Op-Ed: Green Energy Solutions Could Save the Caribbean $200 Million

By Jun Zhang Op-Ed Contributor HIGH ENERGY costs are the Achilles heel of the Caribbean. More than 97 percent of this region’s electricity is generated from fossil fuels and many islands devote a hefty portion of their GDP to fuel […]

Chef Michael Schwartz Creates New Pub Concept For Royal Caribbean

Above: Chef Michael Schwartz By Alexander Britell James Beard Award-winning Chef Michael Schwartz has designed a new pub concept for Royal Caribbean as the company’s newest “experience advisor.” The new pub, Michael’s Genuine Pub, which will feature Schwartz’s “Michaels Genuine […]

Condor to Resume Flights to Grenada

Above: Grenada Tourism Minister Alexandra Otway-Noel and Condor’s Herwig Oberhuber sign the agreement in Berlin (Photo: CTO) By the Caribbean Journal staff German air carrier Condor is returning to Grenada. The company will be resuming flights to the Maurice Bishop […]

13 Potential Caribbean Tech Hubs

COULD a Caribbean city develop into a Silicon Beach? As the Caribbean seeks to develop, it will need to be creative — and part of that means both attracting creative people and companies to its shores and supporting creative people […]

Taking Jamaican Dancehall to the World

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Turning 30 – A Time for Reflection IT’S the end of 2013. Everyone’s busy making plans for 2014. I’m sitting in office on New Year’s Eve feeling more than a tinge of excitement. 2013 […]

Central Bank: Trinidad Economy Grew Just 0.2 Percent in 2012

Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago saw GDP growth of just 0.2 percent in 2012, lower than its expected rate of 1 percent, according to Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran. The shortfall […]

Chung: Fixing Jamaica’s Structural Deficiencies to See Growth

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor THERE were two occurrences within the past week that reminded me that Jamaica still has a lot to do in order to see long-term sustainable development. There was an announcement that an International Monetary Fund […]

Marcia Forbes: Media Matters, Jamaica 50 and London 2012

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The Vocal Minority & Jamaica 50 There has been an outcry from those who perhaps represent the vocal minority that the Jamaica 50 celebrations cannot only be about “jump-up,” “skin-out,” “wine up we body.” […]

Marcia Forbes: The Trade Wars Between Jamaica and Trinidad

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The Patty War Many in the Anglophone Caribbean would have heard of Jamaica’s Patty War with Trinidad. It came to a head in 2009. At its root was what some describe as non-tariff barriers […]

Excerpt 1 from Marcia Forbes’ “Streaming: Social Media, Mobile Lifestyles”

STREAMING: Volume 1; #Social Media, Mobile Lifestyles, written by Marcia Forbes, artfully combines relevant and often humorous short stories to explain and support her research findings about what youths do online. Here, online refers to the Internet and cell phones. […]

Interview with US Virgin Islands Delegate Donna Christensen on Health Care, HOVENSA

Above: US Virgin Islands Delegate to Congress Donna Christensen (Photo: WH) By Alexander Britell The US Virgin Islands is in one of the most challenging periods in its history, in large part due to the closure of the HOVENSA oil […]

Jamaica Seeks More Chinese Investment

Above: the Chinese embassy in Jamaica Above: the Chinese Embassy in Jamaica (Photo: Chinese Embassy) Jamaican Minister of Finance Audley Shaw said an invitation has been extended to the Chinese to expand their investments in the country. Shaw, who was […]

The Caribbean’s Most Exciting New Rooftop Bar Is In Antigua