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Barbados, Italy Meet on Airlift, Tax

Above: Ambassador Paolo Serpi, left, and Barbados PM Freundel Stuart Barbados PM Freundel Stuart met with Italian Ambassador to Barbados Paolo Serpi to discuss a number of issues, including an air services agreement between the two countries, a double taxation […]

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Aid Helps Haiti Renovate Prisons

Above: officials at a prison in Croix de Bouquets, Haiti (File Photo: UN) Earthquake aid has helped one particularly poor sector of Haiti — its prisons. A year and a half after the quake that devastated the nation, a group […]

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Jamaica Monitors Gold Mine Leak

Dr Horace Chang (2nd left), addressing journalists about a toxic leak at the gold mine in Pennants, Clarendon, during a media briefing at the National Environment and Planning Agency yesterday. Others (from left) are: Chief Executive Officer, NEPA, Peter Knight; […]

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Jamaica Seeks More Chinese Investment

Above: the Chinese embassy in Jamaica Above: the Chinese Embassy in Jamaica (Photo: Chinese Embassy) Jamaican Minister of Finance Audley Shaw said an invitation has been extended to the Chinese to expand their investments in the country. Shaw, who was […]


Examining the Caribbean Region's Historical Connections to Latin America

Above: Jamaican High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Anthony Johnson (standing), delivers a lecture on: ‘Historic Relations between Jamaica and the English-speaking Caribbean and Latin America’, at Canning House, in London, on July 19. Director General of Canning House, Dr […]


Martelly Honours Singer Wyclef Jean

Haitian President Michel Martelly has made Haitian singer and roving ambassador Wyclef Jean a Grand Officer of the National Order of Honor and Merit. Jean, whose own bid for the presidency was denied by the courts after ruling he was […]

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CARICOM Demands Halt to Hazardous Waste Passage through Caribbean Sea

By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Chairman Dr Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis, has called for an immediate halt to the passage of radioactive material through the Caribbean Sea, something he called “unacceptable and injurious.” Douglas […]


Jamaica Signs Deal on Solar Testing

The Jamaican Cabinet has approved an agreement for GreenRG Management to introduce, test and research its solar technology across the country. GreenRG has volunteered to test its technology for streetlights, buildings, water pumps and other infrastructure, and it will not […]


In Trinidad, New Hopes for an Old Fort

Above: the view from Fort Abercromby (Photo: TIS) Trinidad is looking to an 19th-century British fort as a way of expanding tourism. Fort Abercromby, which was built by the British in 1804 as part of the fortification of Trinidad, is […]

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Report: Billions of Barrels of Bahamian Oil

By the Caribbean Journal staff A report by Ryder Scott commissioned by the Bahamas Petroleum Company has found potentially significant oil resources offshore. According to Ryder Scott’s “Competent Persons Report,” which examined newly-acquired seismic data and previous information, even low-end […]


Jamaica Could Restart Gold Mining after Chemical Leak in Clarendon

Above: Housing, Environment and Water Minister Dr Horace Chang (2nd left), addressing journalists about a toxic leak at the gold mine in Pennants, Clarendon, during a media briefing at the National Environment and Planning Agency on Monday. Others (from left) […]


Barbados Looks to Cut Energy Use

Barbados Senator Darcy Boyce is calling for a partnership between the government, private sector and homeowners to work together to cut energy consumption on the island. Boyce, who is the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office responsible for […]


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