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Jamaica Signing Air Services Agreements With Morocco, South Africa

This is the New St Lucia Cabinet

After the opposition United Workers’ Party’s victory in St Lucia’s recent general election, new Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has named his Cabinet. The most anticipated appointment in the new St Lucia cabinet? Tourism, where Dominic Fedee will take the reins …

A Cabinet Reshuffle in Jamaica

By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Cabinet has undergone a slight reshuffle. The country’s Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller, announced reassignments of several ministers in a statement issued Friday. The reshuffle, which takes effect on Monday, sees Horace Dalley assigned …

Guyana’s New Cabinet

Above: Guyana Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is sworn in By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana has a new Cabinet, following swearing in ceremonies this week. The 15-minister Cabinet includes members of both the A Partnership for National Unity and Alliance …

St Kitts and Nevis Swears In New Cabinet

Above: the swearing-in ceremony in Basseterre By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has sworn in the twin-island federation’s new Cabinet. In a ceremony on Monday, St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris himself accepted the …

Trinidad Prime Minister Shakes Up Cabinet

Above: Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago has a new Cabinet, following the latest reshuffle by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. Persad-Bissessar revoked the appointments of six Ministers, including National Security Minister …

This is Haiti’s New Cabinet

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly (right) addresses the new Cabinet (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Evans Paul have officially announced the country’s new Cabinet, which was sworn in on Monday. The …

Small Cabinet Reshuffle in the Bahamas

Above: Nassau (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cabinet of the Bahamas has undergone a slight reshuffle. The government announced this week that Member of Parliament Hope Strachan had replaced Ryan Pinder as the country’s new Minister of …

The US Virgin Islands’ New Cabinet

Above: St Thomas, USVI (Caribbean Journal photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff US Virgin Islands Governor-Elect Kenneth Mapp, who will be sworn in as Governor on Monday, has named the members of his Cabinet. Mapp defeated US Virgin Islands Delegate to …

Slight Cabinet Reshuffle in Cayman

Above: Cayman By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands’ government has undergone a slight Cabinet reshuffle. The moves, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2015, include the additional assumption by Premier Alden McLaughlin of the role of Minister of …

Dominica Names New Cabinet, Including New Tourism Minister

Above: Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominica has officially unveiled its new Cabinet, which was sworn in last week. The new Cabinet includes a mix of new and old faces, led by new Tourism Minister Senator Rober …

Grenada Names New Tourism Minister in Cabinet Reshuffle

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada has named a new tourism minister as part of a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell. Mitchell announced the move to name Yolande Bain-Horsford the country’s new Tourism …

Antigua PM Names New Cabinet

Above: Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne By the Caribbean Journal staff New Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has officially unveiled his new Cabinet. The announcement comes after Browne’s Antigua Labour Party swept into power in last …

Haiti Reshuffles Cabinet

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe has announce a major Cabinet reshuffle. The reshuffle comes under a condition of the recently-signed El Rancho Agreement, an accord between Haiti’s branches of …

Op-Ed: Is It Time For a Cabinet Reshuffle in Jamaica?

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor THE JAMAICA OBSERVER newspaper recently reported Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller indicating that there would be no cabinet reshuffle in Jamaica in the near future. This may not be very good news for the country, …

Two Former Jamaican Cabinet Ministers Resign From Senate

Above: Jamaica’s Parliament By the Caribbean Journal staff Christopher Tufton and Arthur Williams, both former Cabinet Ministers, have tendered their resignation from Jamaica’s Senate. The decision by Tufton, a former Industry Minister in the previous Jamaica Labour Party government and …

Slight Cabinet Realignment in Antigua

Above: Parliament in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Dr Baldwin Spencer has announced a small ministerial realignment. The Prime Minister has named Senator Mervyn Richards as Minister of State with responsibility for Sports and …

Turks and Caicos Eyeing Late 2014 Completion For Airport Terminal Project

Above: a rendering of the new terminal By the Caribbean Journal staff The airport terminal expansion project at the international airport in Providenciales is expected to be completed by the end of 2014, according to John Smith, CEO of the …

Haiti Diaspora Minister Resigns

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bernice Fidelia, Haiti’s Minister of Haitians Living Abroad, has resigned from the country’s Cabinet, according to a statement from the office of Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe. Fidelia will be replaced …