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These 25 Caribbean Resorts Have Private Plunge Pool Rooms You’ll Never Want to Leave

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Open the terrace door and the pool is already there, a few feet from the bed, surrounded by tropical gardens or facing a beach, a volcano or a pair of volcanic peaks. You leave your book on the lounger. You order lunch to the room. You swim before dinner. There is no hunt for an […]

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St Kitts and Nevis Opens Embassy in Cuba

Above: St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas in Cuba (Photo: OPM SKN) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has officially opened an embassy in Havana, Cuba. St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas inaugurated the embassy during an official visit to Cuba’s capital last week. Douglas was […]

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At a Washington Embassy, the Roots and Culture of Jamaica in Photos

Above: the exhibition at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A new exhibition at the Jamaican Embassy in Washington, DC looks celebrates the richness and variety of Jamaican culture. The exhibition, “Roots and Culture Jamaica,” features the photographs of Andrea Cauthen, a member of the Jamaican diaspora who lives […]

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Trinidad Opens Embassy in China

Above: the opening ceremony of Trinidad’s new Embassy in China (Photo: OPM Trinidad) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago has officially opened an Embassy in China. The new Embassy opened in Beijing on Wednesday, inaugurated by Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar during her official visit to China this week. The opening […]

At a Washington Embassy, the Roots and Culture of Jamaica in Photos

 Above: British Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire inaugurates the mission (Photo: FCO) By the Caribbean Journal staff For the first time since 1966, the United Kingdom has a diplomatic mission in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. UK Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire has officially inaugurated the UK Embassy in Haiti, which will be located within the country’s Canadian […]

Germany, CARICOM to Focus on Climate

Above: Trinidad (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Germany and CARICOM will be cooperating on the issue of climate change for the foreseeable future. Climate change, green energy and natural resources management and biodiversity will be the focus of Germany’s assistance to the Caribbean Community through 2018, according to Ullrich Kinne, deputy head of […]

Trinidad to Open Embassy in Beijing

 Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago will be opening an Embassy in Beijing in November, Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and China President Xi Jinping this weekend. The news revealed during a visit by Xi to Trinidad, the first every by a Chinese head of state to […]

Haiti: US, UN "Welcome" Formation of Transitional Electoral Council

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s recent agreement on a transitional college of the Permanent Electoral Council, a move that paves the way for the holding of long-delayed elections, is drawing praise from the United States and the United Nations. In a statement, the UN’s MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission said it “welcomed” […]

St Kitts and Nevis Mulls Establishing Embassy in Cuba

 Above: Havana By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis will consider the possibility of establishing an embassy in Cuba in 2014, according to Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas. Douglas revealed the plan during a courtesy call with Cuban Charge d’affaires Hugo Ruiz Cabrera. Cabrera is serving on an interim basis following the departure […]

US Embassy in Haiti Issues Warning Following Series of Armed Robberies

Above: the Tabarre neighbourhood in Port-au-Prince (Photo: US Embassy in Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States Embassy in Haiti issued a security message to US citizens traveling in or visiting Haiti this week after a spate of armed robberies near the embassy in Port-au-Prince. According to a release from the Embassy, over […]