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In Brussels, Haiti's Martelly Meets With European Union Leadership

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Hotel Tracker: True Blue Bay Hotel in Grenada for $212 a Night in March

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The road curves past marinas and low hills on Grenada’s southwest coast, then drops toward Prickly Bay, where sailboats rest at anchor and the water stays calm through most of the day. True Blue Bay Hotel sits right along the edge of the bay, close enough that you see masts and ripples from balconies and […]

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Op-Ed: The Internationalization of Jamaica's Small Business Sector

By Richard Kildare Op-Ed Contributor The challenges in developing any economy are many. It is prove, however, that through the infrastructural development of small businesses and entrepreneurship, this sector can account for employing more than 60 to 80 percent of a nation’s labour force and greatly improve contribution to a state’s Gross Domestic Product. The […]

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Grenada to Launch Wind Energy Project on Island of Carriacou

Above: wind farms, like that in Nevis, are becomingly increasingly popular in the Caribbean (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada will launch a wind energy project on the island of Carriacou in partnership with the European Union and GRENLEC, the government announced Tuesday. The financing agreement for the project was approved in February […]

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Panama Fully Joins Central American Integration System, Signs EU Pact

Above: Panama President Ricardo Martinelli in Honduras (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama has fully joined the Central American Integration System, in a move the country hopes will improve its trade with the region. SICA is Central America’s regional economic, cultural and political organization. While Panama had been a member of SICA, it […]

Grenada to Launch Wind Energy Project on Island of Carriacou

Above: Guyanese and EU officials By the Caribbean Journal staff Guyana and the European Union signed tow financing agreements Friday to fund a micro-hydropower system and accompanying measures to the sugar sector. The total cost of the micro-hydropower system, which will be established at the Chiung River, will be approximately $909,554. Of that amount, the […]

Turks and Caicos Governor Signs New Public Finance Management Law

 Above: the Turks and Caicos House of Assembly (Photo: GIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Turks and Caicos Governor Ric Todd has signed the territory’s new Public Financial Management Ordinance aimed at improving standards of accountability in the management of government funds. The signing came one day after an arrest warrant was issued for former […]

Jamaica's Budget Targets Northern Coast

 Above: Negril By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government has set aside just under $26 million (J$2.25 billion) for a group of projects aimed at improving the infrastructure on the country’s northern coast. The allocation will be executed through the Northern Jamaica Development Project, an initiative being implemented by the Ministry of Transport, Works and […]

Haiti to Receive $131 Million in Reconstruction Help from EU

 Above: Haitian President Michel Martelly and EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian President Michel Martelly, accompanied by Prime Minister-Designate Laurent Lamothe, signed a strategic document and two financing agreements with the European Union in a ceremony in Port-au-Prince. Martelly said he welcomed the agreements, which came within the […]

Haiti's Martelly Meets with EU Development Commissioner Piebalgs

Above: Haitian President Michel Martelly meets with victims of the Tabarre market fire last month (Photo: OP) By the Caribbean Journal staff European Union Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs is in Haiti for a meeting with President Michel Martelly, as part of a two-day visit to the country. The Commissioner said that the EU’s focus was […]

EU to Fund Study on Geothermal Link from Dominica to French Islands

 By the Caribbean Journal staff The European Investment Bank has agreed to provide a 1.1 million Euro grant to enhance planning and study the feasibility of exporting geothermal electricity from Dominica to Martinique and Guadeloupe. The bank, which is the European Union’s long-term lending institution, will look at possible links from Dominica to Guadeloupe to […]

Ghana Delegation Visits Guyana to Learn about Sustainable Forestry Inititative

Above: the two delegations talk in Georgetown By the Caribbean Journal staff Seeking to learn more about Guyana’s Chainsaw Milling Project, a sustainable forestry initiative, a team from Ghana recently visited the country to hold talks with Environment Minister Robert Persaud. Guyana’s project, which is funded by the European Union, has led to the development […]

Trinidad Foreign Minister Meets New European Union Charge D'Affaires

 Above: Daniela Tramacere and FM Dr Surujrattan Rambachan By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Foreign Minister Dr Surujrattan Rambachan met last week with Daniela Tramacere, the newly-appointed European Union Charge D’Affaires to Trinidad. Rambachan expressed his desire to continue the “robust” relationship he had enjoyed with Tramacere’s predecessor. The two sides discussed the proposed official […]

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