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Grenada Plans New Drug Rehab Centre

By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada’s government has earmarked a new drug therapeutic centre for St Andrew, according to senior planning officials in the Ministry of Health. The Carlton House Drug Rehabilitation Centre is one of several capital projects the […]

Puerto Rico Opens New Rehabilitation Centre to Combat Drug Addiction

Above: Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño has inaugurated the island’s new Pitirre Rehabilitation Centre, part of an initiative aimed at combating drug addiction in the territory. The $2 million plan, […]

Jamaica Sets Pre-Trial Dates For Five Athletes After Positive Drug Tests

Above: Jamaica’s Independence Park By the Caribbean Journal staff Pre-trial dates have been set for five Jamaican athletes reported to have failed drug tests, according to a government statement. The athletes, who include former Olympians Asafa Powell and Sherone Simpson, […]

Jamaica Spending $36 Million to Boost Pharmaceutical Drug Supply

Above: Director of the National Health Fund’s (NHF) Pharmaceutical Division Marcia Chin See (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Jamaican government is spending approximately $35.5 million on a two-year supply of pharmaceutical drugs, including those required to treat […]

Why This is the Biggest Challenge for Caribbean Youth (And Why There’s Hope)

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor This is Part 2 of excerpts from ‘Caribbean Youth and Unemployment’ prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank’s ‘XIV Reunion BID – Sociedad Civil’ hosted in Nicaragua during late 2014. Challenges of Joblessness Rebelliousness Online […]

Overcoming Poverty in Jamaica

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor ACCORDING to the recently released 2012 Survey of Living Conditions (SLC), Jamaica has recorded an increase in poverty levels between 2009 and 2012. “The all-Jamaica individual poverty prevalence increased by 2.3 percentage points relative to […]

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 […]

Transforming Haiti, in C Major

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT-AU-PRINCE — “The impact is not only having a good orchestra — this is the least you can do. The big impact is changing minds.” It could be an arpeggio, a chord, or […]

Caribbean Public Health Agency to Launch Operations in 2013

Above: CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Public Health Agency will formally launch operations in January, the organization announced this week. Dr Carl Hospedales, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, has been named CARPHA’s new […]

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 […]

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 […]

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