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Delegation From Brazil’s Ruling Party Arrives in Havana

Above: Havana By the Caribbean Journal staff A delegation from Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party arrived in Havana on Monday morning. The group, led by Rui Falcao, president of the centre-left Workers’ Party, was received by Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, second […]

Breaking: Fidel Castro Is Dead

The Cuba Journal is reporting that Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, born August 13, 1926, has died on November 25, 2016. Castro was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 followed […]

Fidel Castro’s Newest Message Addresses US-Cuba Thaw

Above: Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Just weeks after rumours of the death of Fidel Castro swirled across the Internet, the former Cuban leader has broken his silence with a new message. In the new message, which was […]

Venezuela’s Maduro, St Vincent’s Gonsalves Head to Cuba

Above: Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro and St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves arrived in Cuba Thursday for a brief visit. Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and St […]

Dominican Republic’s Medina Meets With Delegation From Vietnam

Above: Vietnam’s Tran Dac Loi and the Dominican Republic’s Danilo Medina (Photo: OP Dominican Republic) By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina received a delegation from Vietnam’s government at his office on Friday. The delegation was led […]

Op-Ed: Is Cuba Really Changing?

By Andy Gomez Op-Ed Contributor We recently witnessed what we had not heard one of the Castro brothers say in almost 54 years: Come 2018, neither one of them will be in power. Raúl Castro announced to the Cuban National […]

Cuba Names Esteban Lazo New President of National Assembly

Above: Esteban Lazo (Photo: AIN Cuba) By the Caribbean Journal staff Esteban Lazo has been named the new President of Cuba’s National Assembly. Lazo has served in the Politburo of Cuba’s Communist Party. He succeeds Ricardo Alarcon, who had served […]

Bahamas Congratulates China on Appointment of New President

Above: Bahamian FM Frederick Mitchell By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas is looking forward to continue working with China in an “atmosphere of mutual respect and cooperation,” according to Foreign Minister Frederick Mitchell. Mitchell was responding to the appointment […]

Barbados Strengthens China Ties

Above: Bridgetown (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A contingent of Barbados cabinet ministers welcomed a high-level Chinese delegation to the island this week, part of a drive to strengthen relations between the two countries. The delegation from the […]

China’s Tianjin Makes Pitch to Guyana

Above: former Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo, Tianjin’s Zhang Gaoli and President Donald Ramotar By the Caribbean Journal staff The Chinese municipality of Tianjain says it is ready to build economic relations with Guyana. Tianjin, a major port and communications hub […]

China’s Lequan Visits New Bahamas National Stadium Project

Bahamian track legend Thomas Robinson with Wang Lequan (BIS Photo/Gena Gibbs) China’s Wang Lequan, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of China’s Communist Party, visited the new Bahamian national stadium this week, which was a joint Sino-Bahamian […]

Interview with Mary Anastasia O’Grady on US Policy in the Americas, China and Haiti

Above: Guatemala’s Otto Perez Molina, Haiti’s Michel Martelly and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez By Alexander Britell This week, heads of state from around the region will gather in Cartagena, Colombia for the Sixth Summit of the Americas, on the theme of […]

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