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In Andros, Tackling the Food-Price Problem at the Grassroots

Above: BAIC Executive Chairman Edison Key tours the North Andros High School’s mini-greenhouse with teacher Shivanandah Ackloo (BIS Photo) By Gladstone Thurston With food prices an increasing challenge for the Caribbean, a group of students in the Bahamas are working […]

Jamaica, International Financial Centre?

Jamaica has strong potential as an international financial centre, according to Eric Crawford, chairman of the Jamaican International Financial Services Authority. “It’s a very high value-added industry everywhere it exists,” he said at the Diaspora Convention in Ocho Rios this […]

Chinese Firm to Build Cayman Port

A CHEC visit to the Bahamas earlier this year (Photo: CHEC) Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush said he expects to sign an agreement with a Chinese developer to build a new port in George Town. The company, China Harbour Engineering Company, […]

Miami Nightclub Promoter Michael Capponi Has Big Ideas for Haiti

Above: a rendering of Capponi’s proposed hotel Miami nightclub promoter and businessman Michael Capponi has a number of high-profile plans for entering the struggling Haitian market. Capponi, who made his name promoting nightclubs like LIV and B.E.D., wants to change […]

China’s Lequan Visits New Bahamas National Stadium Project

Bahamian track legend Thomas Robinson with Wang Lequan (BIS Photo/Gena Gibbs) China’s Wang Lequan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of China’s Communist Party, visited the new Bahamian national stadium this week, which was a joint Sino-Bahamian […]

Bahamas Security Minister Tommy Turnquest Defends Privy Council

Minister Tommy Turnquest (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna) Bahamas Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest defended the London-based Privy Council, the Bahamas’ final court of appeal yesterday, arguing that the court was not an obstacle to the death penalty as it had […]

Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz Singing a Happier Tune for Caribbean Football

Above: Demar Phillips (Photo source: CONCACAF) By Alexander Britell In the face of an ongoing FIFA scandal, Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz are bringing the sport’s attention to the West Indies in a far more positive light. With the football world’s eyes […]

Barbados PM Stuart Meets with China’s Wen Jibao, Talks Air Link

Barbados PM Freundel Stuart at China’s National Museum (BGIS Photo) Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart continued his China visit, meeting with China’s Premier Wen Jibao and discussing the possibility of an air link between the two countries. “There is endless […]

New Jamaica-Barbados Controversy

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding (JIS Photo) Following the controversial treatment of a Jamaican national at Grantley Adams Airport in Barbados, Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding questioned the alleged detention of a Caribbean Airlines plane in Barbados. “What I am […]

Bahamian, Chinese Officials Meet on National Security, Transnational Crime

Wang Lequan, left, and Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham (BIS Photo/Peter Ramsay) Officials from China visited the Bahamas this week, discussing issues of national security and law enforcement. The two countries’ dialogue actually followed a stint by two Bahamian police officers […]

Director Chris Browne’s Quest to Bring Jamaican Film to the World

By Alexander Britell Despite a number of landmark films shot in Jamaica, from Dr. No, the first James Bond film (along with several other Bond films) to Legends of the Fall, the domestic Jamaican film industry is very much in […]

Diaspora Has Critical Role to Play, Jamaica’s Golding Says

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding at the Brookings Institution in Washington this week. (JIS Photo) The Jamaican Diaspora has a critical role in moving the country forward for growth, Jamaican Prime Minister said at a Washington reception held by Jamaican […]

After 20 Years, Bahamas and Cuba Reach Agreement on Maritime Border

Photo Source: NASA Visible Earth Following 20 years of negotiations, the Bahamas and Cuba have reached an agreement on their maritime border, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette. Symonette would not confirm when the matter would definitively be […]

Jamaica’s Golding Talks Economy to Brookings Institution in Washington

Director of the Latin American Initiative at the Brookings Institute, Mauricio Cardenas and Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding (JIS Photo) Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding delivered a lecture on the Jamaican economy to Washington’s Brookings Institution think tank, focusing on […]

Heavy Rains Lead to at Least 23 Deaths in Still-Vulnerable Port-Au-Prince

Earthquake destruction in Port-au-Prince (UNDP Photo) Heavy rains in Haiti have led to the deaths of at least 23 people this week. The rain, which caused flashfloods and mudslides, followed 10 days of showers, and underscored the problems still facing […]

Jamaica’s Golding Meets with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Bruce Golding and Hillary Clinton at the State Department (JIS Photo) Jamaican Prime Minister met with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday in Washington, holding bilateral talks on a series of topics. Golding is on a five-day visit to […]

Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter: “Remarkable Change” Under Way

Brian Waynter (Photo: JIS) Jamaica is going through a period of “remarkable change,” Bank of Jamaica Governor Brian Wynter said yesterday at the Caribbean Canadian Emerging Leaders’ Dialogue Economic Symposium in St. Andrew. Wynter said the bank was working on […]

Jamaican Prime Minister Begins High-Level Talks in Washington, D.C.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding Arrives at Washington’s Ronald Reagan Airport (JIS Photo) Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding arrived in Washington, D.C. yesterday for high-level talks. The talks are part of a five-day visit for Golding. He was met by Jamaica’s […]

Bahamas Greets New Chinese Ambassador

From left: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Brent Symonette, Minister of National Security Hon. Tommy Turnquest and Ambassador Hu Shan (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) New Chinese Ambassador to the Bahamas Hu Shan received a formal welcome at the […]

Acting CONCACAF President Gives Blazer 48 Hours to Explain Investigation

FIFA photo Concacaf Secretary General Chuck Blazer has been given two days to explain why he decided to investigate members of the football body. Barbados’ Lilsle Austin, who assumed temporary control of Concacaf after Jack Warner was suspended by FIFA’s […]

Report: Haiti Death Toll Far Smaller than Government Claimed

U.N. Photo/Logan Abassi The death toll from last year’s Haiti earthquake was between 46,000 and 85,000, a number that is far smaller than the official figure of 316,000, according to a report commissioned by the U.S. government. The report, which […]

Report: Caribbean Could See 3 to 6 Major Hurricanes This Year

Photo source: NOAA By the Caribbean Journal staff The Atlantic basin is slated to see an above-normal hurricane season this year, according to the U.S. government’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The agency is predicting between 12 to 18 named […]

Jamaican Economy to Grow 1 to 2 Percent

The Jamaican economy could grow between 1 and 2 percent his year, according to the Bank of Jamaica. The growth will be driven by extensions in agriculture, mining and quarrying, along with hotels and restaurants. “The Jamaican economy has started […]

Plans for $1 Billion in Chinese Funding for Caribbean

Eximbank China’s Export-Import Bank has plans to launch a $1 billion fund to invest in Latin America and the Caribbean, following several years of significant spending in the region. In 2009, China invested $7 billion in the region through private […]

At Nassau’s Baha Mar Resort, The Art of Everything