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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 […]

Durandis: On Citizenship, Nationality and Haiti’s 1987 Constitution

Above: Jean-Jacques Dessalines By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor After more than two centuries of suffering, humiliation and inhuman conditions, brave slaves and free people of colour revolted against their French masters to proclaim their freedom and the independence of their […]

Panama President Opens New KIO Networks Regional Headquarters

Above: the new facility in Panama Pacifico (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama President Ricardo Martinelli has inaugurated information technology firm KIO Networks’ new data centre in the Panama Pacifico development. The facility will be KIO’s new regional […]

Interview with Francis Fonseca, Candidate for Prime Minister of Belize

By Alexander Britell BELIZEANS HEAD TO THE POLLS Wednesday to choose their next government — deciding between Prime Minister Dean Barrow’s ruling United Democratic Party and the Opposition People’s United Party, led by Francis Fonseca, which is looking to return […]

OECS Mourns Grenada’s George Brizan

Above: St George’s, Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States has issued a statement mourning the death of former Grenadian Prime Minister George Brizan. “It is with deep regret that I learn of […]

In the Bahamas, Antonius Roberts Builds a New Home for Art

Above: Hillside House in Nassau (CJ Photo) NASSAU — A CORAL-HUED PROPERTY on Cumberland Street could be a significant driver in the development of downtown Nassau, if celebrated Bahamian artist and sculptor Antonius Roberts has his way. Roberts has brought […]

British Virgin Islands Encouraging Careers in Financial Services Industry

By the Caribbean Journal staff Following a call to improve the British Virgin Islands’ financial services industry by Premier Dr Orlando Smith last month, the government is making a push to encourage careers in the sector. The government, through the […]

From Atlantis to the Ocean Club, Bahamian Produce Begins Turning Heads

Above: BAIC farm manager Ayret Lightbourn answers questions from chefs about tomato production in North Andros (BIS Photo/Gladstone Thurston) By the Caribbean Journal staff A number of Bahamian chefs were on hand this weekend in North Andros to look at […]

Trinidad Talks Development, Security with United Nations Development Programme

Above: UNDP Administrator Helen Clark (Photo: OPM Trinidad) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago and the United Nations Development Programme held talks this week focusing on the launch of the new Caribbean Human Development Report and a proposed […]

Jacmel, Haiti Prepares for Carnival

Above: preparations underway for Sunday’s Carnival (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff The city of Jacmel is busy preparing for the National Carnival of Jacmel, which will be held on Sunday. The festivities come two years after Jacmel’s celebrations […]

Interview with Benjamin Krause, Haiti Director for Sean Penn’s J/P Charity

Above: a street in the town of Delmas 32 in the days after the earthquake. Since 2010, J/P Haitian Relief Organization has cleared 200,000 cubic metres of rubble — and is still doing so. (UN Photo/Marco Dormino) By Alexander Britell […]

In Jamaica, a New Home for Disputes

Above: the opening of the new Restorative Justice Centre in Tower Hill, St Andrew (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A new initiative by Jamaica’s Ministry of Justice aims to prevent crime and harmful behaviour by encouraging members of […]

Pirates Attack Fishing Boats in Guyana

Above: One of the fishing boats that were attacked (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Three fishermen have been rescued following a pirate attack on fishermen on Guyana’s Pomeroon River. The pirates targeted approximately 15 fishing boats on Friday, […]

Interview with John Ashton, UK Special Representative for Climate Change

By Alexander Britell “It was the voice of the Caribbean that changed the world at Durban,” says John Ashton, the UK Foreign Secretary’s Special Representative for Climate Change. The Caribbean, perhaps more than any region in the world, faces an […]

Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools

This article originally appeared in Untapped Cities. By Albert José-Antonio López Twelve years have passed since Princeton Architectural Press first published John Loomis’s Revolution of Forms: Cuba’s Forgotten Art Schools. In the time that has passed since its humble introduction to the […]

Interview with Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas

Above: Grenadian Prime Minister Tillman Thomas (UN Photo/JC McIlwaine) By Alexander Britell GRENADA – Last weekend, Grenada hosted the seventh UK-Caribbean Forum, a series of high-level talks aimed at developing a new and more modern relationship between the UK and […]

Jamaica’s Black River Plans for a Revival

By the Caribbean Journal staff The capital of Jamaica’s St Elizabeth parish is looking to engineer a revival, with a plan to attract new investment and new businesses. It’s the city of Black River which is the centre of those […]

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 […]

A New Dawn for Haiti Tourism?

Above: Cayes-Jacmel (Photo: HTO) By Maura R. O’Connor CJ Contributor When Dominican business entrepreneur Frank Ranieri wanted to get involved in tourism in the 1970s, he crossed the border into Haiti to see how it was done. “[Haiti’s tourism] was […]

Interview with Dr Peter Phillips

By Alexander Britell Dr Peter Phillips is the former Minister of National Security, Minister of Transport and Works and Minister of Health in Jamaica, having also served in two other ministerial posts. He is now the campaign director for the […]

Interview with Jamaican Parliamentary Candidate Dr Saphire Longmore

By Alexander Britell Dr Saphire Longmore is the Jamaica Labour Party candidate for Eastern St Andrew in the upcoming election in the country Dec. 29. Longmore, who recently completed her MD in psychiatry, is also a former Miss Jamaica Universe […]

For Large-Scale Earthquake in Eastern Caribbean, a Question of When, Not If

By Alexander Britell Could the Caribbean experience another earthquake like the devastating one in Port-au-Prince in 2010? The answer is yes – and it could be even more powerful, according to Dr Joan Latchman, the director of the Seismic Research […]

Op-Ed: Canadian Sen. Don Meredith on the Canada-CARICOM Free Trade Deal

By Hon. Dr Don Meredith, Senator Op-Ed Contributor Canada and CARICOM are on the verge of forging new economic ties through a timely and well-needed free trade agreement. As a Jamaican who immigrated to Canada and is now serving in […]

Forbes: The Power of Jamaica’s 51 Percent

Above: Dr Leith Dunn (UWI Gender Studies), Mrs. Judith Wedderburn (Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, FES), Her Excellency Mathu Joyini, High Commissioner, South África, Mrs. Lorna Green, founding member, Women Business Owners, Jamaica. By Marcia Forbes, PhD “The 51 Percent Coalition – […]

Barbados Launching Energy Smart Fund

Above: the government-built Solar House By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados Prime Minister Freundel Stuart announced that the government will launch a so-called Sustainable Energy Investment Programme tomorrow at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre. The programme, which is aimed at […]

Marriott Breaks Ground on $51 Million Hotel in Guyana’s Georgetown

Above: Marriott Area VP Andrew Haughton turns sod at the site (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Marriott has broken ground on a $51 million hotel in Georgetown, Guyana in the city’s Kingston neighbourhood. Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo said […]

Stuart: Identify Challenges to Integration

Above: Barbados PM Freundel Stuart and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart urged CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque to identify the existing paramount challenges facing regional integration of the Caribbean in a […]

Interview with Jamaican Parliamentary Candidate Damion Crawford

By Alexander Britell Damion Crawford, People’s National Party candidate for the East Rural St Andrew seat in Jamaica’s Parliament, attended Kingston College, and then went to the University of the West Indies, where he received a master’s degree in tourism […]

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