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A Young Grenadian Track and Field Star Gets Help from the Diaspora
Above: Principal Davis Adams, Shequanda Felix and Labour Minister Glynis Roberts By the Caribbean Journal staff Shequanda Felix vows that she will continue working to better her performance as one of Grenada’s brightest young track and field stars. Grenadians, too, […]
Forbes: Media Freedom in Jamaica
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Media Freedom in Jamaica can be examined from the point of view of the consumers — that is — the reader, the listener, the viewer, or, from the point of view of the content […]
Puerto Rico Governor Fortuño Concludes Northern Trip in Toa Alta
Above: Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño during his trip across the island’s north By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño concluded his trip across the northern part of the country Friday, looking at two schools under construction […]
Ahead of Bahamas Election, OAS and CARICOM Observers Arrive in Nassau
Above: The OAS mission is headed by Ambassador Alfonso Quiñónez (third from left) (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell NASSAU — Electoral observers from CARICOM and the Organization of American States have arrived in Nassau to watch the electoral process and […]
Haiti and the Clouds in the Dark
By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor A country is yearning for development. A people that is so desperate for change. A whole world is watching, and yet, the darkness is filled with clouds. It may not be possible to see the […]
Marcia Forbes: Branding Cuba
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor A Country in Transition I first visited Havana, Cuba at the end of the 1980s. It was a country in transition, with the “Cold War’” beginning to thaw. That “war,” driven by mighty rhetoric, […]
Op-Ed: Nuclear Energy in Jamaica
By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor Last year, the aspect of liquefied natural gas being of uncertain supply, and rapidly increasing in price, was brought to the forefront of the energy supply in Jamaica. Some months later, so-called “clean coal,” 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 […]
Dominica and Panama Establish Relations
Above: Dominica and Panama’s Permanent Representatives to the OAS (OAS Photo/Patricia Levia) By the Caribbean Journal staff The governments of Dominica and Panama signed an agreement in Washington today to establish formal diplomatic relations between the two countries. Dominica and […]
OAS: Belize Party Activists Produce “Less Than Conducive” Voting Environment
Above: OAS Head of Mission Ambassador Frank Almaguer (OAS Photo/Juan Manuel Herrera) By the Caribbean Journal staff The active role played by party activists during Belize’s general elections Wednesday produced a “less than conducive” voting environment, according to the Organization […]
OAS: “Clean Electoral Process” in Guyana’s November Elections
Above: Guyanese Ambassador to the OAS Bayney Karran (OAS Photo/Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana had an overall “inclusive and clean electoral process” in its recent national elections, according to the Organization of American States mission that observed […]
Colombia, Inter-American Development Bank Sign Citizen Security Agreement
Above: Bogota (Photo: IDB) By the Caribbean Journal staff Colombia and the Inter-American Development Bank have signed an agreement aiming to transfer knowledge on violence prevention and improve citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean. The signing, which took […]
St Lucia Launches Initiative to Curb Gender-Based and Domestic Violence
By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government has launched an island-wide initiative to curb domestic and gender-based violence in the country. The “Violence Is Not An Option” campaign is part of a wider project led by the country’s Division […]
Op-Ed: Saving Jamaica’s Youth
By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor There is far too much of a large proportion of youth in Jamaica that is being reared destructively. At midday on any day of the working week one only need to go to Portia Simpson […]
Finding Strength in Haiti’s Darkest Day
Above: A man walks past rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince after the January 2010 earthquake (UN Photo/Marco Dormino) By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor Now comes time for remembrance. What history will surely describe as the darkest day in Haitian history, in […]
New Evidence Act Takes Effect in St Kitts
Above: the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in St Kitts By the Caribbean Journal staff The new Evidence Act that was passed by the St Kitts and Nevis National Assembly in September is now in effect. The act replaced a 135-year-old […]
Interview with Attorney Derick Sylvester
Boxing Day in Grenada was the scene of high controversy, when Oscar Bartholomew, a Grenadian native who was visiting from Canada, died after an alleged incident involving the Royal Grenada Police Force. The police have launched an investigation into the […]
Jamaican Loses Privy Council Appeal of Murder Conviction
By the Caribben Journal staff The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London has dismissed the appeal by Jamaican Samuel Robie of his conviction for the murder of Roy Bailey in 2003. Robie was appealing his conviction on three […]
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 […]
Ahead of Monday’s Election, Guyana’s Jagdeo Gives Farewell Address
Above: Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff After 12 years as Guyana’s president, Bharrat Jagdeo will not be seeking re-election, and gave his farewell speech yesterday. “It has been the greatest privilege of my life […]
Jamaica’s Kent Gammon on Politics, the Economy and Solving the Crime Problem
Jamaican’s Kent Gammon, formerly a caretaker candidate for the St Andrew South-East seat, is an attorney, lecturer at UWI and author, most recently of Two Steps Forward, Two Steps Backward — the Jamaican Story: 1972-2007. Gammon, who now has his […]
Jamaican Loses Privy Council Appeal of Murder Conviction
By Alexander Britell Jamaican Phillip McKenzie has lost an appeal over his murder conviction in the London-based Privy Council. McKenzie was convicted by a unanimous verdict in 2003 in Jamaica for the gunshot murder of Calvin Clarke in Jamaica’s St […]
Ilio Durandis: The Affair Belizaire and What it Means for Haiti’s Rule of Law
Above: Arnel Belizaire By Ilio Durandis Op-Ed Contributor Haiti’s 1987 constitution is supposed to be the supreme law of the land. However, in Haiti, the rule of laws means different thing to different people at different times. I often say […]
St Kitts Passes New Evidence Act
Above: the Lee Llewellyn Moore Judicial and Legal Service Complex By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis lawmakers have replaced the federation’s 135-year-old Evidence Act, an original British statute. The new law, which passed the National Assembly unanimously, […]
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 […]
In St Lucia, The Forensics of Cyberspace
By the Caribbean Journal staff Saint Lucian criminals may no longer be able to hide in cyberspace, if a new initiative by the government has its way. The “Identification and Seizure of Digital Evidence Training Programme,” which began yesterday for […]
Jamaica Bets on Cocoa
By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is intensifying efforts to regain its prominence in the cocoa market, with an EU- and USAID-backed plan to rehabilitate approximately 2,000 acres of production by the end of the 2011-2012 crop, and increase production […]
Remembering the Life of Eugene Dupuch
By Sir Arthur Foulkes Judge Nathaniel Jones, a distinguished Judge of United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeal and former General Counsel for the NAACP, once surveyed the large number of persons entering the legal profession in that country and […]
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