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JetBlue Has New Nonstop Flights to St. Maarten, the Dual-Destination Caribbean Island With Food, Fun, and Picture-Perfect Beaches

A beach on the French side.

Sunset cocktails along the boardwalk. An afternoon of shopping in Philipsburg. Dinners in Grand Case that stretch late into the night — St. Maarten is just a fun place to be — and the Caribbean island has a way of making even simple rituals feel like part of its identity. With JetBlue’s new nonstop service from Fort Lauderdale, travelers now […]

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Haiti: UN Official Urges New Approach on Internally Displaced Persons

Above: Chaloka Beyani, special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons for the United Nations (UN Photo/Evan Schneider) By the Caribbean Journal staff It is time to move from a “largely humanitarian approach to a development-based drive in Haiti,” a United Nations official said this week. Chaloka Beyani, the UN’s special rapporteur on […]

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A New Haiti-Jamaica Flight?

Above: a Sunrise Airways plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has formally designated Sunrise Airways to operate new flights between Port-au-Prince and Kingston, Jamaica. The Haiti-based Sunrise Airways has been on a rapid expansion push that has seen the addition of regularly scheduled charter service from Port-au-Prince to Cuba and […]

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Haiti Mourns Death of Former President Leslie Manigat

Above: Haiti (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is mourning the death of former President Leslie Manigat. Manigat, who died this week at the age of 83, was a teacher by trade who served as President of the country for just over four months in 1988 He served until he was ousted as […]


A New Haiti-Jamaica Flight?

Above: Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe during a visit to Vietnam in 2012 (Photo: OPM Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff A delegation of Vietnamese investors is visiting Haiti this week. The group includes a group of businessmen from Vietnam and is being led by the country’s vice minister for commerce, according to a statement from […]

Haiti's Martelly Heads to Washington

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly departing for Washington, DC (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly departed the country on Tuesday for a visit to Washington, DC, the National Palace announced in a statement. The purpose of the visit was to attend a ceremony of officers graduating from the Inter-American […]

Why Haiti Needs Bioscience Education

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor TWO YEARS ago, as I was contemplating the different ways to contribute to a new Haiti, an idea to bring bioscience education and training to Haiti emerged. In order to move past a simple idea to reality, the support and collaboration of many would be needed to make it happen. […]

Haiti: UNESCO to Send Experts to Explore Possible Santa Maria Wreck

Above: Christopher Columbus on Santa Maria in 1492, Emanuel Leutze, 1855 By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization will be sending a team of experts to provide technical assistance to the site of an underwater shipwreck thought to contain the remains of Columbus’ Santa Maria. The team announced this […]

Op-Ed: Haiti, Apple and Steve Jobs

By Daniella Bien-Aime Op-Ed Contributor WHEN MOST people think of Haiti, innovation does not come to mind. Yet the country is ripe for innovation because of the need to rebuild every industry. Apple is a leader in innovation. It is common knowledge that Apple was on the brink of collapse, but, rescued by Steve Jobs, […]

Op-Ed: Restoring Haiti's Environment

By Stephane Vincent Op-Ed Contributor THERE IS a bit of irony in the fact that June 5, 2014, World Environment Day, fell on a Thursday. In the social media sphere, there is a popular hashtag, #ThrowbackThursday, also referred to as #TBT, on networks such as Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Instagram. Throwback Thursday is a weekly […]

Haiti to Host Organization of American States General Assembly in 2015

Above: the 44th Organization of American States General Assembly (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti will host the General Assembly of the Organization of American States next year, the regional body announced. It will be the latest major regional event to take place in Haiti; last year, the country hosted the CARICOM Heads […]

IMF: Haiti on Track For 3 to 4 Percent GDP Growth in 2014

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Preliminary data suggests that economic activity in Haiti has advanced in line with projections, the International Monetary Fund said this week following its staff visit to the country. Data from the first half of the 2014 fiscal year point to a pace of between 3 and […]