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Haiti, Digicel Partner to Distribute Mobile Money to Isaac Victims

Above: Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe and President Michel Martelly in Cite Soleil Monday (Photo: OPM Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and Digicel have partnered to transfer money via mobile phones to more than 5,000 victims of Tropical Storm […]

Haiti Continues Shift to Mobile Money

Above: the launch of the “Ti Manman Cheri” initiative (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is continuing its drive to use mobile phones to bridge the banking gap. A mobile money initiative funded in part by the Bill & […]

Haiti’s Government Launches Mobile Money Transfer Plan in Cite Soleil

Above: the launch of the programme By the Caribbean Journal staff Haitian First Lady Sophia Martelly and new Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe have officially launched a programme aimed at distributing funding to families with young children living extreme poverty. The […]

In Haiti, Mobile Money Transfers Fund New Homes, With Help from Digicel

Above: construction in Haiti (UNDP Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff In Haiti, while two-thirds of the population has access to mobile phones, just 10 percent have bank accounts. A new UNDP initiative looks to use mobile money transfer technology […]

Forbes: Mobile Lifestyle Revisited

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor No Tweeting & Facebooking on the Go Only six weeks in use, my iPhone suddenly started prompting me that I had no data plan. What data plan? After all, a post-paid service has always […]

Digicel Set to Complete Integration of Haiti’s Voila Mobile Network

By the Caribbean Journal staff Digicel, which acquired Haiti’s Voila network earlier this year, will complete the integration of the network by Oct. 15, the company announced. According to the company, the integration will expand the area of coverage for […]

Forbes: Jamaican Television — Moneymaking Versus the Public Interest

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Jamaica Jubilee Conversations To have participated in one of the five Jamaica Jubilee Conversations hosted as a part of this island’s celebration of its 50th anniversary as an Independent nation was an honour. “The […]

Haiti’s Camp Residents Seek Solutions As Money to Clean Latrines Disappears

Above: Champ de Mars, Port-au-Prince AS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS in Haiti begin their drawdown, millions earmarked for cleaning latrines departs with them, while those in the country’s camps seek answers. With support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Haiti, Phares […]

The Search for Aid Money in Haiti

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor Money is not real. It is only used as a reference to the worth of goods or services in society. Its worth is printed on the currency that we carry in our pocket or wallet. […]

USAID Launches $88 Million Farming Project in Northern Haiti

Above: a farm in Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States Agency for International Development has launched a new project aiming to boost what it says are at least 40,000 rural households in northern Haiti. The five-year, $88 […]

For Haiti’s Health Care, a Virtual Boost

Above: a Cuban doctor administers a vaccine in Haiti (UN Photo/Sophia Paris) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s healthcare delivery is getting a virtual boost. Medical workers and volunteers both in Haiti and abroad are now being virtually connected through […]

When Nassau, Bahamas Was the Center of the Music World

Back in Black, AC/DC’s 1980 comeback record, was a spectacular success for the Australian hard rock band, selling more than 50 million copies worldwide to become one of the top-selling albums of all time. But for all of its commercial […]

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The Caribbean’s First Digital Currency

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In The Bahamas’ South Abaco, Finding Golf and Rebirth

The landscape on the Great Abaco Highway is raw and simple, one long road straddled by nature.  And as you make the straight-line drive from Marsh Harbour to South Abaco, the trees and the brush begin to get taller, greener.  […]

How the Caribbean Court of Justice Is Going Digital

By GERARD BEST CJ Contributor PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad—The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is hoping that a set of technological upgrades it recently adopted will trigger a digital revolution in courts across the region, and transform how justice is […]

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Transforming the Caribbean’s Financial Ecosystems

Why this island celebrated fintech By Ryan Peterson CJ Contributor It is a truism that the global financial ecosystems are experiencing an unprecedented period of technological transformation and disruptive innovation of digitizing money, monetizing data, and virtualizing experiences. Digital currencies, […]

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The Caribbean Response to Brexit

Caribbean Leaders Weigh-in on Brexit By Marcia Forbes, Ph.D. CJ Contributor Brexit is not Cricket  Business people often have a different point of view from academics; however, at the UWI forum regarding Brexit and its implications for the Caribbean, everyone […]

Expedia and the Caribbean

What’s in store for Expedia?  By Guy Britton MONTEGO BAY — Fresh off a $1.6 billion acquisition of Orbitz, global travel giant Expedia shows no signs of slowing down. So what about the company’s work in the Caribbean? To learn […]

A Major Caribbean Media Merger

Two media giants come together By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor #RJRGleaner Media Merger Here we were on the day before Jamaica’s August 6th celebration of it 53rd Independence Day, learning about the proposed merger of two of Jamaica’s oldest […]

How Caribbean Youth Are Turning Digital Content Into a Business

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Role-Models are Essential When you talk with Caribbean youth about the possibilities and hope that working online offers, you have to give them real-life examples to hang their dreams on and help them to […]

Digital Literacy for Caribbean Youth

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Traditional Literacy as Foundation All of us who achieve any level of digital literacy will know straight off that we could not effectively use our cell phones, tablets, lap tops, or desk tops or […]

What a Major Telecom Merger Means for the Caribbean

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Mergers the new Mantra Implications of the merger between Cable & Wireless and Columbus Communications are fraught with many nuances that only the most astute and those with a keen understanding of where the […]

The Business of Caribbean Blogging

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Blog Promo by Journo FOR SEVERAL reasons the newspaper ad surprised me. Firstly, it was placed by a journalist, a journo as they are also called, advertising himself and his skills, in particular his blog. […]

Forbes: Media Everywhere … So What?

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Media Everywhere – So What? I recently presented at a leadership conference which sought to get a glimpse of the future by examining today’s trends. The following are excerpts from that presentation which looked […]

Understanding Jamaica’s Logistics Hub

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Help Me to Believe I WANT to believe in the Jamaica Logistics Hub. I want to feel that this multi-pronged development initiative is going to help to realize the much-touted and highly optimistic Vision […]

Jamaica and The Future of Television

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Dwindling Audiences for TV The King is dead. Long live the King! I will get back to this. Free to air TV stations and cable operators, in particular hardwire cable, have reason to be […]

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