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Cuba: Slight Dip in Tourism Numbers
Above: Cuba (Photo: Cuba Tourism) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism to Cuba is down slightly for 2013, according to data from the country’s National Statistical Office. There were a total of 2.31 million visitors to the Caribbean island through […]
Cayman Islands and United States Sign FATCA Agreement
Above: the US Treasury Department in Washington By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands and the United States have signed an agreement that will pave the way for the automatic exchange of tax information under the US’ FATCA law. […]
Making the Music of Martinique: An Interview with Esy Kennenga
Above: Esy Kennenga in Miami (CJ Photo) MIAMI — He’s one of the most popular singers today from the island of Martinique, and Esy Kennenga’s fame now reaches across the French Caribbean and mainland Europe. The 29-year-old Kennenga, who recently […]
Investing in Haiti
By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor THERE IS nothing more important to Haiti at this moment than new investments and modernization of the business sector. However, talking about investing in Haiti is not the same thing as having direct investment in […]
Haiti Hoping For 3,000 New Hotel Rooms By 2017
Above: the NH El Rancho in Petion-Ville By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is hoping to see the construction of 3,000 new hotel rooms by the year 2017, the country’s Tourism Ministry said this week. The announcement came after Haiti […]
Tobago to Install Coral Reef Early Warning System at Buccoo Reef
Above: Tobago (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tobago will be part of the CREWS international coral reef early warning system, according to Godwin Williams, secretary of agriculture, marine affairs, marketing and the environment in the Tobago House of […]
Montserrat Sees Tourism Jump
Above: Montserrat By the Caribbean Journal staff Montserrat may be small, but the Caribbean island is showing serious improvement in its tourism sector this year. Tourist stop-over arrivals were up 29 percent through June, according to data from the Caribbean […]
A New Way For Trinidad and Jamaica to Work Together
By Paul Hay CJ Contributor William Demas, former Head of the Economic and Planning Division of the Government of Trinidad and Tobago, compared the five-year national plans of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) in his book The Economics of […]
Cuba Foreign Minister Visits Mexico
Above: Cuba FM Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla (UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras) By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla arrived in Mexico City this week for a two-day visit. Parrilla, who had prevoiulsy been in New York to vsiit […]
Guyana’s Tourism Sector Surging
Above: Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana’s tourism sector has shown strong growth so far in 2013, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country received 117,517 tourist arrivals from January to August, an increase of 12.4 […]
Curacao’s Kura Hulanda Hotel Closes
Above: the Kura Hulanda By Alexander Britell The Kura Hulanda Hotel in Curacao has closed its doors and been declared bankrupt, Netherlands-based Sandton Hotels announced. The Kura Hulanda Lodge & Beach Club remains open, however. In a release, Sandton Founder […]
Belize Tourism Continues Strong 2013
Above: the El Secreto resort in Belize By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize’s tourism sector got off to a record start at the beginning of 2013, and the trend has continued. Belize recorded 215,234 tourist arrivals from January through August, […]
Hotel Development in Haiti
Above: the soon-to-open NH El Rancho By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti currently has five hotels and 644 rooms in its active hotel development pipeline, according to data from STR. The country recently saw the opening of two major hotels […]
Martinique Eyes 1 Million Visitors By 2020
Above: Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille By Alexander Britell It’s now been a year since Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille addressed the media at the CTO’s State of the Industry Conference in St Kitts. At the time, she was a […]
New Earthquake Monitoring Station in Antigua Almost Complete
Above: the new monitoring station By the Caribbean Journal staff A new earthquake monitoring station in Antigua is almost complete, the government said this week. A team from the Trinidad-based University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre in Trinidad […]
St Kitts Sees Jump in Air Arrivals
Above: Basseterre (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts saw a 7.31 percent increase in air arrivals in August compared to the same period last year, according to data from the St Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority. […]
St Vincent and the Grenadines, St Lucia Look to Improve Local Internet
Above: Bevil Wooding, Internet Strategist with Packet Clearing House, facilitates the CTU CARCIP workshop in St Vincent and the Grenadines By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), together with US-based research firm Packet Clearing House (PCH), is […]
Haiti, United States Talk Energy
Above: the energy talks in Port-au-Prince (Photo: OPM Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe chaired talks with US officials and multilateral partners this week aimed at developing solutions to restructure the country’s troubled energy sector. […]
Development Partners Heading to Dominica For Geothermal Talks
Above: Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A group of Dominica’s development partners will be coming to Dominica near the end of the month for talks on the country’s geothermal energy project. The group heading to Roseau is […]
Are Women in Jamaica Under Siege?
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor MANY ARE quick to point out the sprinkling of women in top-level positions in Jamaica as representative of “woman power.” Then, too, the country has a female Prime Minister. These relatively few high profile […]
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Jamaica’s Major Push on Sugar
Above: a sugar cane plant By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica says it is embarking on a significant push to boost sugar production in the country. The Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries has begun a “massive” cane planting and […]
Cuba Sees Slight Drop in Tourist Arrivals
Above: Cuba By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba received just under 1.6 million tourists in the first six months of 2013, a 2 percent decrease compared to the same period in 2012, according to data from Cuba’s official government statistics […]
Major Crimes Drop in Jamaica
Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The number of serious and violent crimes in Jamaica fell by 11 percent in the first six months of 2013, according to data released by the government. The murder rate was […]
Is Growth Ahead for Jamaica?
Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s economy is projected to grow by between 0.5 and 1.5 percent for the third quarter of 2013, according to data from the Planning Institute of Jamaica. The report comes after […]
OAS Launches Digital Civil Registry Project in Dominica
Above: Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Organization of American States is continuing its programme to digitize civil registries across the Caribbean, with Dominica the latest launching point. The project has begun scanning all birth, death, marriage […]
Five Fun Things to Do In (or On) the Water in Bonaire
Bonaire is a Caribbean oasis — small, calm and charming. Just a bit north of Venezuela, the Dutch Caribbean island has far more things to do than you’d expect on an island of just about 16,000 people. Of course, here, the […]
Haiti Says Carnival of Flowers Led to Tourism Boost
Above: the Carnival of Flowers in Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff Approximately 22,000 people came to Haiti during the period of July 20 to July 30, according to the country’s Ministry of Tourism. That was in large part due […]
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