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Jamaica Maintains Caribbean Lead Over Haiti in FIFA Football Rankings
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United Airlines Is Going Daily to Barbados From Newark and Washington, D.C. for the Holiday Season

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A table at The Cliff. A week at Sandy Lane. A villa in Paynes Bay with the whole family coming in for Christmas. Barbados has long had its own version of the Caribbean festive season, one defined by packed hotels, hard-to-get restaurant reservations and repeat visitors who return every December. This year, United Airlines is putting considerably more seats […]

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Haiti's Football Team Overtakes Jamaica, Leads Caribbean in FIFA Rankings

Above: Haiti in a match against Dartmouth College earlier this year (Photo: Tom McNeill) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s footballers are now the highest-ranked side in the Caribbean. Haiti has jumped nine spots, overtaking Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, according to the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking released today. Haiti is now ranked 62nd in the world, just ahead […]

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Jamaica, Trinidad Lead World Cup Hopes

Above: Jamaica in Gold Cup play (Photo: CONCACAF) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz, along with Trinidad, which is led by newly-appointed oath Otto Pfister, and Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz have the best chance of reaching the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, according to the world body’s latest rankings. According to the latest […]

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FIFA to Probe 10 Caribbean Officials

Above: FIFA headquarters in Zurich (Photo: Tilla Theus) World football governing body FIFA will launch a probe of at least 10 Caribbean football officials concerning alleged bribery at a meeting in May in Port of Spain, according to two sources. The meeting in Trinidad, where Mohamed Bin Hammam allegedly gave envelopes containing $40,000 to secure […]

Jamaica, Trinidad Lead World Cup Hopes

 Above: Trinidad Housing Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal and Works Minister Jack Warner (Photos: TIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Minister of Housing Dr Roodal Moonilal has called the decision by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to split the Ministry of Works and Transport into two a “wise one.” The split of the portfolio, both of […]

Trinidad Opposition to PM: Fire Warner

 Above: M.P. Keith Rowley and Minister Jack Warner The opposition People’s National Movement in Trinidad and leader Keith Rowley have called for Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to fire Trinidad Minister Jack Warner, who has been embroiled in a controversy involving international football body FIFA. Rowley had asked the Trinidad Commissioner of Police, Dwayne Gibbs, to […]

Trinidad PM Shakes Up Cabinet: Energy Minister Replaced, Warner Reassigned

 Above: Clockwise from left: PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Works Minister Jack Warner, new Public Administration Minister Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, Transport Minister Devant Maharaj and new Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine Trinidad Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar reshuffled her cabinet today, naming a new energy minister and separating the Works and Transportation portfolio held by embattled Minister Jack Warner, who […]

FIFA Probe: Evidence of $40,000 in Bribes to Caribbean Football Officials

 FIFA President Sepp Blatter (Photo: FIFA) A report by FIFA’s ethics committee found that evidence existed to support allegations that Caribbean soccer officials received $40,000 in gifts. The initial allegations saw the suspension, and later resignation, of FIFA vice president and Trinidad Works Minister Jack Warner. He had been with FIFA for 30 years. The […]

Trinidad Opposition Leader Asks Police to Begin Jack Warner Probe

 Above: Trinidad’s Jack Warner Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley is calling for Trinidad Commissioner of Police Dwayne Gibbs to investigate whether Works Minister Jack Warner broke any laws in the alleged FIFA bribery scandal. Warner resigned from the international football body yesterday during an ongoing FIFA probe into alleged bribery activities, and FIFA accordingly […]

Jamaica's Reggae Boyz Singing a Happier Tune for Caribbean Football

 Above: Demar Phillips (Photo source: CONCACAF) By Alexander Britell In the face of an ongoing FIFA scandal, Jamaica’s Reggae Boyz are bringing the sport’s attention to the West Indies in a far more positive light. With the football world’s eyes trained on CONCACAF’s bribery allegations, Jamaica’s national team is turning heads with an undefeated record […]

Jack Warner Quits FIFA

Jack Warner (Photo source: FIFA) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Works Minister and FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has resigned from FIFA, in addition to leaving his other posts as head of CONCACAF and the Caribbean Football Union. Accordingly, the investigation into alleged bribery charges against him has been dropped. “As a consequence of […]

Report: Caribbean Football Officials Ask FIFA for New Investigator

FIFA President Sepp Blatter (Source: FIFA) Some Caribbean football officials have expressed their displeasure with the appointment of Louis Freeh, former head of the U.S.’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, as head of FIFA’s inquiry into the bribery scandal. “The investigation is tainted and biased and clearly has a U.S.-driven agenda,” one Caribbean official wrote in […]