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Interview with Mary Anastasia O’Grady on US Policy in the Americas, China and Haiti

Above: Guatemala’s Otto Perez Molina, Haiti’s Michel Martelly and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez By Alexander Britell This week, heads of state from around the region will gather in Cartagena, Colombia for the Sixth Summit of the Americas, on the theme of […]

Op-Ed: The Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association and CARICOM

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor It was in the late 1960s that management called me in to attend a meeting at the Jamaica Manufacturers’ Association, at their then-new Duke Street headquarters in Kingston. I asked, “why me?” And I received […]

Bahamas Launching Five-Year Plan to Address Drugs, Transnational Crime

Above: Bahamian National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest (BIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas is launching a national plan to tackle what the government considers a still-serious drug problem. Drug abuse is manifesting itself most frequently in the […]

Bahamas Gets Advice from Former New York Police Commissioner William Bratton

Above: William Bratton meets with Bahamian officials (BIS Photo/Peter Ramsay) By the Caribbean Journal staff Former New York City Police Commissioner Wiliam Bratton is currently consulting with the Bahamian government on the issue of security. Bratton, who was seen as […]

Jamaica Plans “Major” Crime Reduction

Above: National Security Minister Peter Bunting (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A “major” reduction in crime is a “strategic objective” of the Jamaican government, according to National Security Minister Peter Bunting. The Minister, who said tackling crime was […]

Bahamas Court Case Sees Country’s First Use of Video-Linked Testimony

By the Caribbean Journal staff The use of live, video-linked testimony in a criminal case in the Bahamian Supreme Court was the first in the country’s history, and judges and security officials are calling it a “landmark way of fighting […]

China and Guyana Strengthen Ties With $6.5 Million in New Agreements

Above: Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan and Guyanese President Donald Ramotar By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana and China signed a pair of agreements totaling $6.5 million today during visit by Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Zhong Shan to the […]

In St Lucia, Gardening for Health

By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government is continuing a programme aimed at fighting health problems through gardening, part of a wave of agricultural initiatives throughout the Caribbean. But the country’s Backyard Gardening Programme also looks to tackle a […]

United States Donates Equipment, Vehicles to Jamaican Police Force

Above: the Jamaica Constabulary Force (Photo: JCF) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States government has donated protective gear and vehicles to the Jamaica Constabulary Force in a boost to the country’s crime-fighting efforts. The equipment includes 20 vehicles, […]

St Kitts and Nevis to Continue Crime Fight

Above: Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas (UN Photo/Marco Castro) By the Caribbean Journal Progress is being made in the fight against crime in St Kitts and Nevis, according to Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas, who assumed the responsibility for the […]

The Caribbean Year in Review

For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have chosen new leadership, with Jamaicans headed to the polls on Thursday. It […]

Grenada to Host UN Climate Workshop

By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada will host a United Nations environmental workshop next year, Environment Minister Joseph Gilbert announced. Grenada will be the first country in the western hemisphere to host such a meeting. “This workshop, which will be […]

Kent Gammon: How Plea Bargaining Could Help Control Jamaican Crime

By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor Jamaica’s murder rate is one of the highest in the world with a prosecution success rate of a highly unimpressive 30 percent. The effects of these statistics on the Jamaican economy are manifested in lack […]

Caribbean Nations Prepare for Durban

Above: Durban, South Africa By the Caribbean Journal staff Caribbean nations are preparing for the upcoming Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa at the end of November. Small Island States like those in the Caribbean are particularly vulnerable to […]

Grenada, Germany Sign Climate Deal

By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenadian Environment Minister Joseph Gilbert signed a $6.89 million “concept agreement” for projects in climate change with the German government. The aims of the new programme are to deliver funds to local communities in Grenada […]

Private Sector Aids in St Kitts Crime Fight

St Kitts and Nevis’ newly-formed Delta Squad crime-fighting force is getting a boost from the federation’s Customs and Excise Department, along with the private TDC Group. TDC and the Customs Department are splitting a new bus for the force, along […]

US Pledges $77M for Caribbean Security

Above: Julissa Reynoso, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central America, the Caribbean and Cuba with the US State Department’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs (Photo: US State Department) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean will receive an injection of $77 […]

St Kitts Ramps Up Crime Fight

By the Caribbean Journal staff Following the first mission of St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas’ new Delta Squad crime-fighting task force, he praised the cooperation between the country’s defence and police forces. Douglas was speaking at a […]

CARICOM Meets on Crime

Above: the meeting in Guyana (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Participants from St Kitts and Nevis, Belize, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago are meeting in Guyana this week as part of a four-day sub-regional meeting on gangs and […]

Interview with Clinton Bush Haiti Fund CEO Gary Edson

Above: Employees at an atelier in Port-au-Prince (Photo: CBHF) By Alexander Britell Soon after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush, at the behest of President Barack Obama, founded a fund aimed at […]

Caribbean Prosecutors Gather in St Lucia

By the Caribbean Journal staff Caribbean prosecutors gathered in St Lucia Thursday and Friday to consider the best way forward to meet the challenges of fighting serious organised crime. St Lucia Attorney General and Justice Minister Lorenzo Rudolph Francis emphasised […]

St Lucia to Install CCTV System

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Saint Lucian police force will soon add a CCTV camera system to its arsenal, aimed at enhancing their capacity to monitor potential criminal activity on the island. The $3 million project is part of […]

Citing Rising Crime, St Kitts PM Douglas Assumes Police and Defence Forces

Above: St Kitts and Nevis PM Denzil Douglas (UN Photo: Marco Castro) By the Caribbean Journal staff Citing escalating crime in the country, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Denzil Douglas, who is also the current chair of CARICOM, announced […]

Interview with Dr Keith Nurse: What Climate Change Means for Caribbean Tourism

By Alexander Britell The Caribbean is continually looking for ways to emerge from the downturn. And with an economy largely dependent on tourism, a changing world economy – and a changing world climate — pose new problems for the region. […]

Bahamas to Add Police Reservists

Police and National Security officials in the Bahamas are expected to increase the ranks of the Police reserves in the next year, according to Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest. The decision is the result of what Turnquest called the […]

Caribbean Must Shift Growth Strategy, according to World Bank Report

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean region, like the rest of the developing world, must refocus its strategies from crisis-fighting to structural reforms aimed at growth, according to this month’s Global Economic Prospects report from the World Bank. “Developing […]

Bahamas’ Turnquest: More Cooperation Needed to Fight Transnational Crime

Bahamas Minister of National Security Tommy Turnquest called for renewed cooperation in the international war on drug crime at the first meeting of the Technical Working Group on Maritime and Aerial Domain Awareness Security Cooperation. The meeting was part of […]

U.S. General: Transnational Crime is the Greatest Threat to the Caribbean

Criminal gangs engaged in the transnational trafficking of drugs, guns and humans are the greatest threat to the region, according to Gen. Douglas Fraser, the head of the U.S. Southern Command. “The traffickers are well-financed and very capable,” he said, […]

Southwest Airlines Is Launching New Nonstop Flights to The Bahamas