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“Cuba Should Not Be a Point of Fear For the Region”
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There’s a Cool, Adults-Only All-Inclusive in Barbados You Can Book With Marriott Bonvoy Points

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There’s a certain kind of Caribbean traveler who doesn’t want the bracelet, the buffet line, or the feeling of being processed. They want something quieter. Something social without being loud. Something that feels chosen. On Barbados’ Platinum Coast, The House Barbados has long occupied that narrow, desirable lane — a small, adults-only hideaway that feels […]

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Turks and Caicos Premier Urges Tourism Sector on Local Employment

Above: TCI By the Caribbean Journal staff Turks and Caicos Premier Dr Rufus Ewing is calling on the territory’s tourism sector to give locals more opportunities for “meaningful gainful employment.” He also said he was urging the Immigration and Labour Departments to “continue stepping up their efforts and enforce policies that will ensure that Turks […]

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St Lucia Looking to Boost Employment in Cruise Sector

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government is looking to boost employment in the cruise sector. The country is financing a new Cruise Sector Employment Programme, which aims to train more than 200 young people in St Lucia and provide them with low-interest loans to facilitate their employment. The government is […]

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Cayman Islands Names Minimum Wage Advisory Committee

Above: the Cayman Islands (Caribbean Journal photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands has announced the membership of its Minimum Wage Advisory Committee. In a statement, the government said the committee had begun its work to present recommendations on minimum wage for the British Overseas Territory. Cayman’s Ministry of Education, Employment and Gender […]

St Lucia Looking to Boost Employment in Cruise Sector

 Above: Grand Cayman (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands will be renewing its push to increase tourism employment in 2014. Last year, a public/private partnership between the government and the territory’s tourism sector launched a two-month Tourism Employment Drive, which was a partnership between tourism industry businesses and the National Workforce […]

The Caribbean's Greatest Challenge

By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor WE FACE many challenges in the Caribbean, but we need to pay special attention to the region’s most serious challenge – employment. Many thousands of our people are unemployed.  Thousands more are under-employed.  And many thousands more are fully employed but faced with the triple burden of too much debt, […]

Are Women in Jamaica Under Siege?

 By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor MANY ARE quick to point out the sprinkling of women in top-level positions in Jamaica as representative of “woman power.” Then, too, the country has a female Prime Minister. These relatively few high profile women disguise an ugly truth – the situation of the majority of women in Jamaica […]

Women and the Jamaican Work Force

 By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor We Waan Jostice! Who Cares? “We waan jostice.” This is the cry of many Jamaicans regularly shown on national television during nightly newscasts. This demand for justice (jostice in local parlance) is usually accompanied by placards, blocked roads and confrontations between Police and citizens.  At another level and largely […]

Jamaica Says 21,000 People Employed Under Emergency Jobs Plan

 Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government says almost 21,000 people have gained employment under the country’s JEEP programme. The Jamaica Emergency Employment Programme, was launched in March by the People’s National Party government, which marked a year since its election Friday. The data, which Works Minister Dr Omar Davies said […]

Jamaica Launches JEEP Programme

 By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica officially launched its JEEP emergency employment program in a ceremony Thursday afternoon in St Andrew. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said she had instructed Ministers to “closely review” resources in their ministries and departments to identify potential sub-projects that could produce additional employment. “Under the JEEP, unemployed individuals will […]

Durandis: Rethinking Education in Haiti

 By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor FOR MANY HAITIAN STUDENTS, the day starts before sunrise and ends well past sunset. In Haiti, the road to education is not only hard — at times inaccessible — but, plainly put, the end often does not justify the means. If Haitian leaders want a new Haiti to emerge within […]

British Virgin Islands Premier to Private Sector Employers: Give Youth a Chance

By the Caribbean Journal staff British Virgin Islands Premier Dr Orlando Smith has a message for employers: give youth a chance. “I urge those of you who have not yet committed to hiring our young people to look closer and wherever there may be an opportunity in your firm to give one or two of […]