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Marcia Forbes: The Trade Wars Between Jamaica and Trinidad
By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The Patty War Many in the Anglophone Caribbean would have heard of Jamaica’s Patty War with Trinidad. It came to a head in 2009. At its root was what some describe as non-tariff barriers […]
CARICOM “Assured” of Jamaican Support for Caribbean Integration
Above: CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque and Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque said he has been “assured” of Jamaica’s support for the Caribbean integration movement by Prime […]
Former Grenada Tourism Minister Peter David: “I Am Not Getting Out of Politics”
Above: MP Peter David By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada MP Peter David, who resigned April 30 as the country’s Tourism Minister, has no plans of leaving politics. David’s was the first of two high-profile resignations from Prime Minister Tillman […]
Grenada Prime Minister Thomas Meets With Officials from China’s EXIM Bank
Above: the meeting in Grenada (Photo: OPM) By the Caribbean Journal staff A delegation from China’s Export-Import Bank (Exim Bank) recently visited Grenada. Prime Minister Tillman Thomas said his government was “very appreciative” of the Chinese delegation’s visit, and that […]
Mexico and CARICOM Sign Agreement on Haiti’s Reconstruction
Above: Mexico and CARICOM begin talks in Barbados Monday (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell BRIDGETOWN — Haiti’s reconstruction efforts will receive support following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Mexico and the Caribbean Community. Mexico signed the MoU […]
Bahamas Prime Minister Christie Appoints Complete Slate of Cabinet Ministers
Above: Prime Minister Perry Christie at his swearing-in this week (BIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has completed the formation of his entire cabinet, naming an additional 11 Ministers after the eight who were […]
Panama’s Martinelli Hosts Former Uruguay President Tabaré Vazquez
Above: Tabaré Vásquez and Ricardo Martinelli By the Caribbean Journal staff Former Uruguay President Tabaré Vázquez paid a visit Tuesday to President Ricardo Martinelli. Vazquez, who is in Panama to participate as a keynote speaker at a forum on Regional […]
Chile, OAS Look to Combat Violence Against Women in Eastern Caribbean
Chilean Foreign Minister Alfredo Moreno (OAS Photo/Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Chile and the Organization of American States have signed a Letter of Intent to strengthen capacities in the area of violence against women in the Eastern Caribbean. […]
OAS Calls Confirmation of Lamothe “A Step Forward” for Haiti’s Stability
Above: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza By the Caribbean Journal staff The confirmation of Haiti Foreign Minister Laurent Lamothe as the country’s next Prime Minister represented a “step forward for the political process and the stability of Haiti,” according […]
Belize and Guatemala Agree on 2013 Date for Territorial Referenda
Above: Belize’s Wilfred Elrington and Guatemala’s Harold Caballeros (OAS Photo/Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize and Guatemala’s Foreign Ministers have agreed on a date for simultaneous referenda in the two countries on the issue of Guatemala’s territorial claim […]
Belize, Suriname Meet With OAS
Above: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza and Suriname Foreign Minister Winston Lackin (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize Foreign Minister Wilfred Erlington held a meeting Wednesday in Cartagena with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel […]
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 […]
Grenada’s Government Names New Ambassador to Caribbean Community
Above: CARICOM headquarters in Georgetown By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s William Joseph has been accredited as the new Grenadian Ambassador to CARICOM. CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque accepted Josephs’s letters of credence in a ceremony in Georgetown last week. […]
Panama’s Martinelli, Trinidad’s Persad-Bissessar Hold Talks in Panama City
Above: Martenelli and Persad-Bissessar (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama President Ricardo Martinelli hosted Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for talks Monday on security, commerce, investment and the expansion of the Panama Canal. The two sides […]
China and OAS to Increase Collaboration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Above: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza and Chinese official Yang Wanming (OAS Photo/Jose Manuel Herrera) By the Caribbean Journal staff China and the Organization of American States are looking at new options to further collaborate on projects and programmes […]
Guyana and Suriname Meet with OAS
Above: Suriname FM Winston Lackin and OAS SG Jose Miguel Insulza (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyanese President Donald Ramotar and Suriname Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Lackin both held talks with OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza this […]
Panama Talks Human Rights and Development with OAS
Above: Francisco Alvarez de Soto and Jose Miguel Insulza (OAS Photo/Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panamanian Deputy Foreign Minister Francisco Alvarez de Soto met Thursday with OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza for talks focused on human rights […]
Congressman Alcee Hastings Talks Haiti
Above: US Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL) By Alexander Britell IN DECEMBER, UNITED STATES CONGRESSMAN Alcee Hastings, the Representative for Florida’s 23rd Congressional District, re-introduced legislation calling for President Barack Obama to convene a White House Conference on Haiti in the […]
Serbia, OAS Talk Regional Politics
Above: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza and Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic (Photo: OAS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic met today with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza at the organization’s […]
Jamaican Prime Minister Appoints Mining Expert as New Special Envoy
Above: Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Dr Carlton Davis, a former head of the Jamaica Civil Service, has been appointed an ambassador and special envoy in the Office of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. Davis, an expert on the […]
Trinidad, UNDP Sign Agreement on National Corporate Responsibility Policy
Above: UNDP Administrator Helen Clark and Trinidad Foreign Minister Surujrattan Rambachan (Photo: OPM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago signed an agreement Monday with the United Nations Development Programme on the adoption of a national corporate responsibility policy […]
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 […]
New Cuban Ambassador to Bahamas
By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamian Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes has accepted letters of credence from Ernesto Soberon Guzman, the new Cuban ambassador to the Bahamas. Guzman succeeds former Ambassador Jose Ponce Caraballo. “You should find that the service […]
OAS Says St Lucian Campaign Finance Rules in a “Gray Zone”
By the Caribbean Journal The OAS’ electoral observer mission is concerned that St Lucia’s campaign financing rules remain in a “gray zone,” despite a recommendation in 2006 calling for established rules. The mission said that in the absence of appropriate […]
Governments of Trinidad and Tobago, India Hold First Joint Commission
Above: India’s External Affairs Minister SM Krishna and Trinidad Foreign Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan (UN Photos/Mark Garten and Paulo Filgueiras) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Foreign Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan is in India today attending the Inaugural Session of […]
CARICOM’s LaRocque: Private Sector a Critical Partner for Integration
Above: CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff The private sector is a critical partner in building the Caribbean Community, said CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque in a meeting in Bridgetown yesterday. LaRocque met with representatives of […]
Barbados Looking to Central America
Above: Panama City, San Jose and Bridgetown Following the lead of a number of Caribbean countries, Barbados is looking south to improve its economy. Two Central American countries, Panama and Costa Rica, will be the sites of a diplomatic and […]
Guyana, Venezuela Meeting on Sea Shelf
Above: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and Guyanese FM Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in 2009 (UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras) Officials from Venezuela and Guyana are meeting Friday to discuss the decision by Guyana to make a claim […]
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