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The Caribbean’s Incarceration Problem

By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor Every now and again, a report or statistic comes along that presents something genuinely surprising. A few weeks ago, that statistic came by way of a graphic shared through social media. The graphic showed the […]

Five Cultural Sites to Visit in Haiti

Haiti has one of the Caribbean’s most interesting cultures and centuries of fascinating history. While its leisure tourism industry is very much in the early stages, there are a great deal of cultural and historic sites ready to receive intrepid […]

Dominica’s Secret Bay Adds New Villas

Above: a Zabuco villa at Secret Bay (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Secret Bay boutique hotel in Dominica has added two new villas, the property announced Tuesday. The two villas are both “Zabuco” models, in the same […]

JetBlue to Launch Service to Haiti

Above: a JetBlue plane By Alexander Britell Continuing its Caribbean expansion, New York City-based air carrier JetBlue announced Thursday that it would begin service to Haiti’s Port-au-Prince. The flights, which will include one daily nonstop flight between New York’s John […]

US Attorney General Eric Holder Names USVI’s Sharpe to Advisory Committee

Above: Ronald Sharpe By the Caribbean Journal staff Ronald Sharpe, the United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, has been named to the Advisory Committee of US Attorney General Eric Holder. Sharpe will serve for a two-year […]

Interview With Seaborne Airlines CEO Omer ErSelcuk

Above: a Seaborne plane By Alexander Britell With the departure of American Eagle from the Caribbean, the region’s aviation industry continues to change. But while many predicted doom, airlines large and small, from Cape Air to JetBlue, are working to […]

Forbes: Online Media and National Identity in Jamaica

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The Northern Caribbean University – A Seventh-day Adventist Institution Reaching Out Recently the Northern Caribbean University invited me to serve as Keynote Speaker for the annual conference hosted by its Department of Communication Studies. […]

Op-Ed: China and the Caribbean

By Erik Neff Op-Ed Contributor IT HAS BEEN NO SECRET that China has taken a strategic economic interest in the Caribbean region. China’s intention to expand its financial influence has been crystal clear — it is seeking new political alliances […]

Jamaica “Finalizing” IMF Agreement, Plans Debt Exchange Offer

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is now “finalizing” a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund, along with a debt exchange offer to be made Tuesday, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said in a national […]

Miami-Bimini Ferry Officially Launches

Above: the new Miami-Bimini ferry (BIS Photo) By Alexander Britell In what could be a significant boost for tourism in Bimini and the Bahamas, the new Miami-Bimini ferry officially launched operations this weekend. The ferry, run by Spanish firm Balearia, […]

Bringing Haiti’s Coffee to Market

Above: a Cocano office in La Croix, Haiti (Photo: Cafe Cocano) By Alexander Britell While Jamaica’s Blue Mountain coffee has grown in international prominence in recent years, Haiti is actually one of the region’s oldest coffee-producing countries. The difficulty has […]

Barbados Seeking to Be Rebanded Within British Air Passenger Duty

Above: a British Airways Flight By the Caribbean Journal staff The fight for a “fairer” British Air Passenger Duty, a levy on flights originating in the United Kingdom based on their destination, will continue until a resolution is found, according […]

Haiti: UN Extends Peacekeepers’ Mandate for One Year, Plans Troop Reduction

Above: peacekeepers in Haiti (Photo: MINUSTAH) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations Security Council has extended its mandate for the MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti for another year, the world body announced. The move will also reduce the […]

Kirani James’ Grenada Picks

Above: Kirani James at the Annadale Waterfall (Photo: Joshua Yetman) By the Caribbean Journal staff Kirani James put Grenada on the global stage with his historic, gold-medal-winning performance at the London Olympics. Now, as part of a bid to boost […]

Haiti “Extremely Susceptible” to Drug Trafficking: Report

Above: Haiti’s northwest coast (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff While Haiti’s 2010 earthquake led to a significant drop in trafficking in the country, the country remains “extremely susceptible” to drug trafficking in the near future, according to […]

Dominican Republic Reports Apprehension of 74 Migrants from Haiti

By the Caribbean Journal staff A minibus carrying 74 Haitian immigrants was apprehended in the Dominican Republic, the government announced Saturday. The bus, which was stopped by members of the Dominican Republic’s Fourth Army Brigade, was en route to Santiago, […]

In Haiti’s Land of Canaan, a Promised Land Empty of Promise

Above: Canaan in Haiti By Kendi Zidor Haitian Press Agency Jeanne St Fleur spent more than two years living in a tent on the dusty hillside known as Canaan, in the northern end of Port-au-Prince’s metropolitan area. She moved there […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica’s Next 50 Years

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor There are a lot of comments of late relating to Jamaica’s 50th anniversary of Independence. In Wednesday’s Gleaner, Din Duggan made a few comments  about the unforgivable fracas in Parliament recently, and Mr McConnell’s comment […]

United Nations “Concerned” as Haitians Continue Fleeing Country By Sea

Above: Haiti’s northwest coast (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff The death of a Haitian migrant who drowned trying to reach the Bahamas this week was the latest in a series of incidents of Haitians fleeing their country […]

Former Bahamas PM Ingraham Bids Farewell to Public Life in Abaco

Above: Former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham in Abaco By the Caribbean Journal staff Former Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, whose Free National Movement government was ousted by the Progressive Liberal Party in the country’s May 7 vote, has bid farewell […]

On the Ground: Journalism Ethics in Haiti

By Kathie Klarreich A few months into my Knight International Journalism Fellowship in Haiti, I was conducting a training session in a radio newsroom in the capital when a reporter danced through the open door. He proudly announced that he’d […]

In Haiti’s Tabarre Issa, Finding Out the Truth about Ecological Toilets

Above: Septic systems dug by residents at Tabarre Issa (Photo: Fritznelson Fortune) By Lafontaine Orvild TABARRE, HAITI — COMPLETE WITH GALLERY AND GARDEN, 534 wood and plasterboard houses dot a gravel plot of former sugarcane fields northwest of Haiti’s capital. […]

The Caribbean in 2012

What’s in store for the Caribbean in 2012? In our Year in Review, we looked at the big stories of 2011, from the continued influence of China to the growth of green energy in the region. To find out more […]

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 Jamaican Parliamentary Candidate Julian Jay Robinson

By Alexander Britell Julian Jay Robinson is the People’s National Party candidate for South East St Andrew in the upcoming Jamaican election. Robinson, currently the deputy general secretary of the PNP, studied management and economics at the University of the […]

Following China’s Lead, South Korea Looks to Caribbean Market

Above: Antigua PM Baldwin Spencer and South Korea FM Kim Sung Hwan (UN Photos: Eskinder Debebe and JC McIlwaine) By Alexander Britell China has been extending its influence and investment in the Caribbean region over the last several years, highlighted […]

Editorial: Looking to Latin America

Brazilian air carrier TAM A Caribbean Journal editorial The shortest distance between Trinidad and Venezuela, at the Paria peninsula, is just seven miles. But as the World Bank’s most recent Global Economic Prospects report showed this week, the economic distance […]

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