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Jamaica Foreign Minister Urges New Definition of “Middle-Income” Country

Above: Jamaica Foreign Minister AJ Nicholson By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica is likely to be graduated from receiving grant funding from the World Global Fund and other funding agencies, due to its status as a “middle-income” country. But the […]

Jamaica’s Simpson Miller to UN: Don’t Ignore Middle-Income Countries

Above: Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (UN Photo/J Carrier) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller addressed the United Nations General Assembly Thursday, urging the assembled states not to ignore middle-income countries like Jamaica on […]

Why the Caribbean’s Global Relationships Matter

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor As CARICOM Foreign Ministers gathered in St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the 19th Meeting of the Council for Foreign and Community Relations, Secretary-General Irwin LaRocque underscored the importance of CARICOM maintaining its existing relationships, […]

How to Move to Barbados

Yes, it’s possible to move to the Caribbean, whether you want to add a second home or turn your Caribbean beach dream into a reality. Now, moving to the Caribbean means different things for different people and different price points […]

Making the Caribbean Blue

By Deodat Maharaj Op-Ed Contributor CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES face a variety of serious economic challenges which act as major impediments to their growth and development. The continued reliance on one major export product with associated vulnerability to economic shocks as well as […]

Healthcare in the Caribbean

By Paul Hay CJ Contributor The World Health Organization (WHO) published a ranking of global healthcare systems in their World Health Report 2000. According to an article in the June 29, 2012 edition of the Business Insider entitled “These are […]

Op-Ed: Disasters and Inequality in the Caribbean Region

By George Nicholson Op-Ed Contributor WE ARE all familiar with the proverb “Give a man a fish, and you will feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” While the origin […]

First Dutch Ambassador to CARICOM

Above: Dutch Ambassador Lucita MoenirAlam and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Netherlands has named its first-ever Ambassador to the Caribbean Community. This week, Ambassador Lucita MoenirAlam presented her credentials to CARICOM Secretary General […]

Political Independence and Economic Development in the Caribbean

By Paul Hay CJ Contributor In 2003, Alvin G. Wint – former head of the Department of Management Studies at the University of West Indies, Mona Campus – noted in his book, “Competitiveness in Small Developing Economies: Insights from the […]

Ranking the Caribbean By GDP Per Capita

By the Caribbean Journal staff The World Bank released its 2014 World Development Report report, which includes data on GDP per capita. So what is the richest country in the Caribbean Community, ranked by GDP per capita? It’s the Bahamas, […]

Anthony: Caribbean’s Relationship With Europe “More and More One-Sided”

Above: the CARICOM Summit in Haiti (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Caribbean’s relationship with the European Union is becoming increasingly one-sided, St Lucia Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony told the CARICOM Summit in Haiti Monday. “The truth […]

Marcia Forbes: Disrespecting Women (And Men) in Jamaica

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The following is the second excerpt in Caribbean Journal from Marcia Forbes’ book, Music, Media & Adolescent Sexuality in Jamaica . The research-based book examines relationships between teens and TV, in particular through the […]

Op-Ed: Taxing Jamaica’s Future

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor There is no doubt that Jamaica is one of the world’s most taxed countries (in more ways than one). Nominal incomes for low-to-middle income individuals, after taking out the exemption level, (which has been revised […]

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The Climate for Caribbean Home Financing

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI This story is part of Caribbean Journal Invest, the authority on Caribbean hotel, real estate and tourism business news. Join to access this and other great features, including our biweekly newsletter. Subscribe to […]

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Sotheby’s International Realty Expands to Jamaica

Sotheby’s International Realty has opened its newest office in the Caribbean: Jamaica.  This story is part of Caribbean Journal Invest, the authority on Caribbean hotel, real estate and tourism business news. Join to access this and other great features, including […]

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CJI Conversation: Nadine Agard-Juillerat of Invest SVG

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI This story is part of Caribbean Journal Invest, the authority on Caribbean hotel, real estate and tourism business news. Join to access this and other great features, including our biweekly newsletter. Subscribe to […]

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How Citizenship by Investment Is Fueling Caribbean Hotel and Real Estate Development

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor Citizenship by investment programs, which confer citizenship for buyers who meet a certain investment threshold, have been quietly fueling a surge in resort and real estate developments across the Caribbean. At the forefront of that […]

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What Will the Brexit Mean for Caribbean Tourism?

Examining the impact to Caribbean tourism By Denaye Hinds and Eduardo Lafforgue CJ Contributors While the world grapples with understanding how Brexit will take shape and to what level the region may be affected, as tourism destination developers and product specialists, […]

The Road to Prosperity in Jamaica

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor The Jamaica Labour Party’s slogan, “Poverty to Prosperity”, was very catchy and seemed to have been embraced by enough people for them to win the elections. Now that the election is over, we certainly as […]

Why Jamaica Can Regain Its Place As the Powerhouse of the Caribbean

A turning point By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor As was expected, 2015 was a turning point for the economy and the fiscal accounts. In 2015 the Jamaican economy started to see the benefits of the economic reform programme (ERP) and […]

Addis Ababa and the Caribbean

Global financing and the Caribbean By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors The issue of global financing for development is a critical theme in the international development agenda with the most recent United Nations (UN) meeting being the Third […]

The CARICOM Question

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor The Caribbean is a region of small islands surrounded by water. In an increasingly competitive global economic and political climate, these island can no longer remain islands. But what’s the future of Caribbean regionalism? That […]

Raul Castro Pledges Cuba’s Cooperation With CARICOM

Above: Raul Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba is pledging its continued cooperation with its neighbours in the Caribbean Community, according to Cuba President Raul Castro. The Cuban leader was addressing the Cuba-CARICOM Summit in Havana on Monday. “We […]

Lithuania Names First-Ever Ambassador to Caribbean Community

Above: Lithuania By the Caribbean Journal staff Th ebaltic state of Lithuania has named its first-ever Ambassador to CARICOM. Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite was accredited to CARICOM on Monday. She is a former president of the United Nations Security Council and has […]

How Much Can Jamaica Grow?

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor THE PLANNING Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) is targeting real GDP growth of three percent in the fiscal year 2015/16. This is against the previously targeted 1.5 to two percent, under the current IMF agreement. I have […]

CARICOM: More Dialogue to Come on Martinique and Guadeloupe

Above: Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Following Martinique Regional Council President Serge Letchimy’s historic visit to the CARICOM Heads of Government conference in St Vincent this year, CARICOM is continuing to explore the possibility of accepting […]

Michael Edghill: Challenging the Caribbean Crime Narrative

By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor OFTEN, once the narrative has been established, people simply view all events through the lens of that narrative. Anything to the contrary is then viewed simply an aberration because actually contradicting the established narrative […]

Doing Business in the Caribbean: CARIFORUM Needs Reform

By Paul Hay CJ Contributor THE RECENT report, Doing Business 2014: Understanding Regulations for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, is one of a long-standing series of co-publications of the World Bank and International Financial Corporation, which records the global competitiveness of […]

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