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You wake up, you head for the sand. Then you do it again. Some Caribbean vacation aren’t about striking statements or grand gestures. They’re not always about luxury — or, that is to say, they’re about another kind of luxury: the perfect beach day. It’s that feeling of stepping onto warm sand with nothing on […]

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China Providing $1.3 Million to Complete Grenada Housing Project

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff China’s government has agreed to provide $1.33 million in funding to complete the final phase of work on 351 housing units in Grenada’s Mt Gay, Frequente and Soubise. The agreement was reached last week between Housing Minister Delma Thomas and China’s Charge d’Affaires to Grenada, Chen […]

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Haiti: Number of People Living in Tent Camps Down 79 Percent Since 2010

Above: tent housing in Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The number of people still living in tent camps in Haiti as a result of the 2010 earthquake has fallen 79 percent since a 2010 high of 1.5 million, according to the International Organization for Migration. The IOM’s Haiti’s Displacement Tracking Matrix found […]

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St Lucia: European Union Agrees to Fund Housing, Water Projects

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia and the European Union signed a pair of agreements this week, covering housing and water projects. “[The] signing ceremony for the financing of two worthy interventions represents the continued cooperation and support that the European Union provides to the government and people of Saint Lucia,” St […]

Haiti: Number of People Living in Tent Camps Down 79 Percent Since 2010

Above: the Carib territory in Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominica is moving forward with a housing project in the Carib Territory, the government announced. The project has completed 10 of 40 planned homes in the Kalinago territory. “We’ve started on the Chinese funded project where the Chinese had offered us some […]

Haiti: World Bank Strategy to Include Focus on Cholera, Housing, Energy

Above: a tent camp in Haiti (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff The World Bank has approved a new two-year strategy for the institution in Haiti. The plan, which was endorsed by the bank’s Board of Directors, will include initiatives such as providing 1.5 million people with cholera education and prevention, repairing and […]

Post-Earthquake Housing in Haiti

Above: housing near Delmas 32 (Photo: Mercidieu Moranvil) By Dieudonné Joachim The already acute pre-earthquake housing problem in Haiti was magnified when 190,000 homes were destroyed or damaged after the Jan. 12, 2010 trembler. Even though the construction sector experienced a subsequent boom, there appears to be little change in building habits: permits are granted […]

UN: "Haiti Is At a Crossroads"

Above: the UN’s ASG for Human Rights in Haiti (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff While Haiti is showing “encouraging signs of progress,” a number of challenges remain, particularly on the fronts of poverty and justice reform, according to UN Assistant Secretary General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic. Simonovic, who began a four-day […]

Haiti's Martelly, Indian Ambassador Hold Talks on Agriculture, Housing

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly receives funding from India for a new housing project (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti President Michel Martelly and Shri Rajasekhar, India’s non-resident ambassador to Haiti, held discussions Monday in Port-au-Prince. The talks focused on areas including agriculture, housing, education and family planning, among others. India’s government […]

Op-Ed: A Real Estate Crisis in Jamaica?

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor ALTHOUGH JAMAICA’S ECONOMY is showing some sign of stability, the housing market has yet to reflect this situation. Property sales are slow, and the demand for rentals is ever increasing; so much so that rentals listed in the classifieds of a popular newspaper number 33 columns and over three full […]

Montserrat Breaks Ground on New Homes

Above: the groundbreaking at Davy Hill By the Caribbean Journal staff Montserrat’s government has broken ground on 20 new affordable homes in the island’s Davy Hill area. The project is located on two-and-a-quarter acres of land previously purchased by the government, which also financed the installation of the area’s infrastructure, including telephone, cable and utility […]

Jamaica to Launch Housing Drive as Part of Emergency Job Programme

Above: Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller in Parliament Tuesday (JIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The next phase of Jamaica’s JEEP emergency jobs plan, which the country’s government says has already created 5,800 jobs, will be headlined by a housing drive for Jamaicans living in poverty. Jamaica’s government will work with the Ministry […]