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Trinidad Emergency Arrests Top 3,200
Above: Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar (Photo: TGISL) By the Caribbean Journal staff A total of 3,290 people were arrested in Trinidad from the Aug. 23 to Sep. 28 during the country’s ongoing State of Emergency, according to the Trinidad and […]
New Report Shows How Mobile Phones Helped Haitian Earthquake Victims
Above: Victims of the Haitian earthquake queue up for water (UN Photo: Sophia Paris) A new report shows the way scientists mapped populations movements after Haiti’s earthquake using data from more than two million cell phone handsets. “We rapidly received […]
In Jamaica, a New Look at Literacy
Above: the National Library of Jamaica Jamaica’s Ministry of Education has partnered with UNESCO to implement a Literacy Assessment Monitoring Programme to accurately assess literacy levels among Jamaicans. Jamaica is the first country in the Caribbean to put the project […]
Trinidad, OAS Sign Security Agreements
Above: Trinidad Minister of National Security John Sandy at Chaguaramas in February (Photo: TIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of Trinidad signed two cooperation agreements yesterday with the Organization of American States to strengthen information on public security […]
Report: Billions of Barrels of Bahamian Oil
By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by Ryder Scott commissioned by the Bahamas Petroleum Company has found potentially significant oil resources offshore. According to Ryder Scott’s “Competent Persons Report,” which examined newly-acquired seismic data and previous information, even low-end […]
Hillary Clinton, in Montego Bay, “Heartened” by U.S.-Jamaica Relationship
Above: Clinton in Guatemala last week (State Department Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended a high-level meeting between foreign ministers and CARICOM yesterday in Montego Bay, where she announced several new U.S. initiatives […]
Minister Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace on Bahamian Tourism, Part 2
By Alexander Britell Earlier this month, we talked to Bahamas Minister of Tourism and Aviation Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace about what trends he had seen in the past few years for Bahamian tourism. We followed up with Minister Vanderpool-Wallace to find out […]
Jamaicans Still Buying into Financial Schemes
Jamaica’s FSC Senior Management Team Jamaica has been home to the high-profile OLINT issue, what some have dubbed the Caribbean’s version of the Bernard Madoff controversy. But according to the Jamaican Financial Services Commission, there are 64 unregulated investment schemes […]
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