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This Sandals All-Inclusive in the Caribbean Has Overwater Bungalows, Swim-Up Rooms, and Plunge Pool Suites

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You wade into the pool from your patio. Or you dip into your plunge pool. Or you jump straight into the sea. At Sandals St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the first choice you make each day is how you enter the water — and that choice says almost everything about how the rest of the […]

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Jordan's King Abdullah II Visits Haiti

Above: King Abdullah II and Haiti President Michel Martelly By the Caribbean Journal staff Jordan’s King Abdullah II briefly visited Haiti this weekend as part of a wider trip to the United States and Spain. Abdullah’s visit featured a meeting with Haiti President Michel Martelly at Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport, where the two sides […]

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Haiti: Sri Lanka Sends New Contingent of United Nations Peacekeepers

Above: Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Sri Lanka is sending 750 new soldiers to be part of the United Nations’ peacekeeping force in Haiti, the country’s government announced Monday. A group of 400 soldiers from the country’s Sinha regiment departed for Haiti on Monday to join the MINUSTAH force. They followed a […]

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Haiti's Laurent Lamothe Holds Talks with National Police, MINUSTAH

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe held high-level talks with members of the Haitian National Police Friday aimed at seeking new avenues for cooperation and leadership. The meeting included members of government, parliament and the UN’s MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti. Lamothe said he […]


Haiti: Sri Lanka Sends New Contingent of United Nations Peacekeepers

By the Caribbean Journal staff Alain Le Roy, the outgoing head of the United Nations peacekeeping forces, said that before the earthquake in Haiti, UN peacekeepers had contributed to five years of stability, and prevented a descent into “total chaos” after the earthquake. “There are so many achievements,” he said of the UN’s global peacekeeping […]