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Op-Ed: Haiti’s Fight for Transparency

 By Jake JohnstonOp-Ed Contributor In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, donors pledged billions of dollars for reconstruction efforts. With those dollars was a commitment to “build back better”; this time was supposed to be different from previous big …

Op-Ed: Jake Johnston on Humanitarian Aid in Haiti: Supply and Demand

 Above: A woman sits in front of her home at a camp for persons displaced by the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By Jake JohnstonOp-Ed Contributor 
 “Donors and aid organizations prefer to be the boss of …

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Opinion

Op-Ed: The Future of Caribbean Air Transport

 Living in the time of COVID-19 has underscored how difficult it is to maintain our distance. Many of us are longing for a time when we can feel comfortable to reconnect with our family and friends and restart regular economic …

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Rum Journal

Rum Journal: A Powerful Rum From Puerto Rico

 There’s a pantheon of “overproof” rums across the Caribbean, a fiery group of sought-after expressions like Grenada’s Rivers Rum and St Vincent and the Grenadine’s aptly, wonderfully named Very Strong Rum.  In recent years, the overproof category has seen a …

• Why This Might Be the Ultimate Caribbean Small-Batch Rum

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Markets

Pandemic Leading to Second-Home Surge in Dominican Republic

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