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The Caribbean’s Incarceration Problem

By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor Every now and again, a report or statistic comes along that presents something genuinely surprising. A few weeks ago, that statistic came by way of a graphic shared through social media. The graphic showed the […]

Human Rights on a Caribbean Island

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor This is what many highly educated and intelligent Jamaicans believe: Buju Banton was set-upon by wicked gays who engineered his lock-up by the USA. Even more of the less intelligent and less educated also […]

Barbados Signs Agreement on Drug Treatment Court Project

Above: Bridgetown (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados has signed an agreement with the Organization of American States to implement a pilot Drug Treatment Court project. The initiative seeks to promote judicially-supervised treatment alternatives to incarceration for drug […]

Op-Ed: Obama and the Caribbean

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor IF UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Barack Obama’s foreign policy can be criticized, it can be on the basis that it has been somnolent and reactionary with regard to Caribbean policy. Neither the United States nor […]

OAS Set to Launch Drug Treatment Court in Trinidad and Tobago

Above: OAS Headquarters in Washington (OAS Photo/Juan Manuel Herrera) By the Caribbean Journal staff The ORganization of America State’s Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission will launch Trinidad’s first pilot Drug Treatment Court this week. The courts are an alternative to […]

Trinidad Opposition Party “Gravely Disturbed” by Police Raid on Media House

Above: Dr Keith Rowley By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said his party was “gravely disturbed” by the police raid on the Newsday newpsaper last week. Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar has also said the government […]

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