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Dominican Republic Keeps Rewriting Tourism Records, Topping 8 Million Visitor Mark By August

The Dominican Republic continues to rewrite its own records, welcoming 8,005,257 visitors in the first eight months of 2025, according to new data released by Tourism Minister David Collado. The figure represents a 49 percent increase compared to the same period in 2019, a 13 percent jump over 2023 and a 2.8 percent rise against […]

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Accountability in Jamaica

Why the health sector saga is important By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor Jamaica’s recent health sector saga has brought to the fore the real need for accountability in the country. The fact is that this is not the first incident to highlight this deficiency, but another one that has been highlighted because of the sensitivity of […]

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Why Has Growth Been So Elusive for Jamaica?

Jamaica’s growth problem By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor SINCE the early 1970s, Jamaica has suffered from an anaemic growth rate of less than one per cent per annum. This despite many prescriptions and attempts by various governments, and promises by politicians, as to what needs to be done for growth to happen. Once again we […]

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Caribbean Tourism Organization Treating Sargassum “Seriously and With Urgency”

What’s next for seaweed problem? By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The seasonal spike of Sargassum seaweed on Caribbean beaches has captured the attention of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) and tourism policymakers across the region. In a statement released today, the CTO expressed that it is treating the matter “seriously and with urgency,” and that […]

Why Has Growth Been So Elusive for Jamaica?

By the Caribbean Journal staff The invasive lionfish is an increasing problem in the Caribbean, and more and more people continue to devise ways of tackling the problem. But nature may be working on its own fight against the invasive species. In what’s believed to be the first documented evidence of its kind, a diver has […]

Op-Ed: The Caribbean Passport Problem

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Too many passports. It’s a problem almost unique to the Caribbean. The best and brightest of the region head abroad to study — maybe to Canada, maybe to the United Kingdom, maybe the United States. They end up living there — a decade, two decades, maybe more. And during that […]

Can Jamaica Control Its Crime Problem?

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor The murder of 19-year-old Franciena Johnson and her cousin Nadia Fearon) on Christmas Eve was a terrible development for Jamaican tourism and the perception of Jamaican stability held by the Jamaican Diaspora. Franciena was a US citizen who had been born in Jamaica; Nadia had always lived on the island. […]

The Caribbean's Incarceration Problem

By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor Every now and again, a report or statistic comes along that presents something genuinely surprising. A few weeks ago, that statistic came by way of a graphic shared through social media. The graphic showed the nations with the highest incarceration rate globally. This graphic was an illustration of a study […]

Solving Jamaica’s Crime Problem

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor JAMAICA IS REALLY an amazing place. Over the last week, while we have all recognized the need to get economic and social development going, and in a week when we are expecting the Finance Minister to tell us how he will finance the fiscal expenditure, we have been bombarded with […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica’s Lotto Scam Problem

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor A NATIONAL SECURITY PROBLEM in Jamaica has become a public relations problem in the United States. The so-called “lotto scam” is a multinational fraud scheme directed at elderly US citizens by organized criminals in Jamaica. The lotto scam targets senior citizens who are duped into believing that they have won […]