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Trinidad’s Warner Suspended by FIFA

Source: FIFA Trinidad’s Minister of Transport and Works and FIFA Vice President Jack Warner is among two FIFA officials suspended by football’s governing body ahead of an ethics probe. Warner, along with Qatar’s Mohammed bin Hammam, the head of Asia’s […]

Controversy over Haitian Refugees

A growing number of Haitian earthquake victims are under threat of eviction from their refugee camps, with almost a quarter of the nearly 700,000 refugees living in such camps in Haiti in danger of eviction, according to the International Organization […]

REDjet to CARICOM: Time for New Approach to Regional Air Travel

REDjet CEO Ian Burns wrote a letter to CARICOM Secretary General Lolita Applewhaite urging a new approach to Caribbean air travel. According to the letter, which appeared in the Jamaica Observer, Burns cited a 2006 World Bank report on air […]

Caribbean Joint Action Plan Commits $960 Million in First Year

The European Investment Bank By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Joint Action Plan, a collaboration between six leading development banks aimed at bringing the Caribbean out of the downturn, has totaled more than $960 million in commitments to private […]

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 […]

Trinidad’s Jack Warner in FIFA Probe

Source: FIFA Trinidad and Tobago’s Jack Warner is involved in a bribery probe by officials of FIFA, football’s global governing body. Warner, the president of the CONCACAF federation, a FIFA vice president and Trinidad’s Minister of Works and Transport, has […]

Fugro to Perform Bahamas Oil Survey

Global oil services firm Fugro will perform a high-resolution seabed survey of the licence areas belonging to the Bahamas Petroleum Company. The company has already performed a two-dimensional seismic program of its licences, which cover 15,676 square kilometers. “We are […]

New Effort for Marcus Garvey Pardon

Jamaican Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Olivia Grange is looking to set up two committees to lobby the U.S. government to pardon Marcus Garvey. It would not be the first such effort; Edward Seaga, former prime minister of Jamaica, […]

Jamaican Minister Robertson Resigns

Following the news that the United States had cancelled his U.S. visa, Jamaica Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson has resigned, with the future of his involvement with the Jamaica Labour Party in doubt. “I am not stepping down from […]

Jamaica’s People’s National Party Names New Shadow Cabinet

Jamaican Opposition Leader and former prime minister Portia Simpson-Miller has named a new shadow cabinet, replacing its members with many veterans of her administration in 2007. Peter Phillips, former minister of national security, is now the shadow minister for finance, […]

Trinidad’s Ruling People’s Partnership Marks One Year in Office

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar Trinidad’s ruling People’s Partnership marked one year in office, after winning 29 seats compared to the People’s National Movement’s 12 seats a year ago. The popularity of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, however, has fallen in polls, […]

Director Stevan Riley on his Film “Fire in Babylon” and the Power of Cricket

By Alexander Britell For almost fifteen years beginning in the 1970s, the West Indian cricket team was the best in the world, and perhaps the best side in any sport. In an era of prejudice and racial upheaval, the Windies […]

U.K. Won’t Approve Cayman Budget

The United Kingdom will not sign off on Cayman’s budget for the upcoming year without cuts to civil service personnel, it announced. The budget had been set for delivery to the Legislative Assembly May 23, but British concerns about personnel […]

Study: Tivoli Gardens Unrest Cost Jamaica $258.8 Million

According to a study by the Planning Institute of Jamaica, the unrest in Kingston’s troubled Tivoli Gardens neighborhood involving the raid on strongman Christopher Coke cost the country approximately $258.8 million (nearly $22 billion in Jamaican currency). The economic effects […]

Bahamas, UAE Form Diplomatic Ties

The Bahamas and the United Arab Emirates have established diplomatic relations, the Bahamian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. The agreement was made in the form of a joint communique at the Permanent Mission of the United Arab Emirates in New […]

Jamaica to Enter Medical Tourism Market

Reginald Budhan, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Investment and Commerce Jamaica intends to enter the multibillion-dollar medical tourism market, although at this time it lacks the required facilities to do so. One investor, however, the Hospiten Group, is […]

Working to Preserve Reggae’s Identity

Above: Carlyle McKetty (left) and Sharon Gordon By Alexander Britell For Carlyle McKetty and Sharon Gordon, protecting reggae is a way of life. The world recently marked the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley’s premature death, and in that time, much […]

New Film Looks Back at the Golden Age of West Indies Cricket

Following their success in the first Cricket World Cup in 1975 and until the 1990s, the West Indies ruled the cricket world. The so-called “calypso cricketers” were a machine, which is now the subject of a feature film, Fire in […]

Jamaica Defence Force Mum on Internal Review of Coke Raid

The Jamaica Defence Force is facing criticism after it is refusing to publicize the results of an internal review that examined its operation in West Kingston last year. “The no-comment is not acceptable,” said Dr Carolyn Gomes, the executive director […]

Bahamas Petroleum Company, in Survey, Finds Supergiant Structures

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas Petroleum Company, which has offshore license permits in the Bahamas, said it had found structures similar to the so-called supergiant structures of the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East. “What is most […]

Haitian Prime Minister Resigns

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive, has resigned from office after being appointed by former president Rene Preval 18 months ago. “I feel it was normal that I gave to President Preval my resignation because he appointed me and so the […]

BHP Billiton Starts Drilling in Caribbean

BHP Billiton has begun drilling gas at its Agostura Project off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. According to CEO Michael Yeager, the platform has a design capacity of 280 million cubic feet of gas per day. BHP has a […]

UWI Pro Vice-Chancellor Replaces Mary King in Trinidad Cabinet

Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie, the pro vice-chancellor at the University of the West Indies, has replaced Sen. Mary King in the Trinidad Cabinet after King was removed from office in a conflict-of-interest government award scandal. [Trinidad Express]

Bahamas’ Democratic National Alliance to Launch This Week

The Democratic National Alliance, a new political party in the Bahamas, is set for launch this week by leader Branville McCartney, MP for Bamboo Town. McCartney, who was a former cabinet minister and member of the ruling Free National Movement, […]

Trinidad Minister Removed from Office

Following increasing pressure over an allegedly improperly awarded government contract, the appointment of Trinidad Sen. Mary King, the Minister of Planning, Restructuring and Gender Affairs will be revoked today. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar met with the nation’s president today to […]

Inter-American Development Bank Begins Barbados Visit

By the Caribbean Journal staff Eleven counsellors of the Inter-American Development Bank are in Barbados looking at local projects funded by the bank. Representatives of the bank, which last week warned that the region was in danger of significant effects […]

Haitian Lawmakers Give Diaspora Right to Vote, Preserve Presidential Term Limits

Amending its 1987 constitution, Haiti’s legislature has recognized multiple citizenship, giving members of the Haitian diaspora the right to vote for the first time. More than four million Haitians living abroad can now vote, though they are still unable to […]

Trinidad Minister in Row over Award of Government Contract

Sen. Mary King Following allegations published over the weekend that Trinidad and Tobago Sen. Mary King participated in the award of a $100,000 contract to a company in which her family had an interest, pressure has mounted on King from […]

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