You spend the day diving bottomless blue holes. Discovering thick finger coral and hobnobbing with reef sharks, eagle rays and regal seahorses. Then you get out of the water and find the perfect sunset on a totally uncrowded white-sand beach. I remember the first time I visited Cape Eleuthera, way down at the southeastern corner […]
Above: Paramaribo (Photo: IDB) By the Caribbean Journal staff Ratings firm Moody’s has upgraded the foreign currency rating of the government of Suriname to Ba3 and raised the country’s economic outlook from stable to “positive.” The change came from several factors, Moody’s said, including the expectation of “continued prudent fiscal management and improved debt sustainability […]
Above: Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller Dr Carlton Davis, a former head of the Jamaica Civil Service, has been appointed an ambassador and special envoy in the Office of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. Davis, an expert on the bauxite and alumina industry, is also a former cabinet secretary. He will advise the Prime […]
Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo met Tuesday with Japanese Ambassador Tatsuaki Iwata to discuss the finalisation of several projects, including rehabilitation works on the East Demerara Water Conservancy. According to Iwata, the two also discussed the possibility of future collaboration between the two countries in several industries, including investment, agriculture and minerals. Most recently, the two […]
