Barbados has its landmark historic places. The Garrison in Bridgetown, with its parade ground and UNESCO World Heritage designation, anchors the island’s story (including the George Washington House). St. Nicholas Abbey draws visitors with its centuries-old Jacobean mansion and rum estate history. Gun Hill’s signal station and lion statue still look out across the countryside […]
Above: new OAS Secretary General-elect Luis Almagro (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Organization of American States will soon have a new Secretary General. The hemispheric body voted Wednesday to elect former Uruguayan Foreign Minister Luis Almagro as its new secretary general for a five-year term. Almagro will begin in the role May […]
Above: MINUSTAH Chief Sandra Honore and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Sandra Honore, the head of the UN’s MINUSTAH peacekeeping force in Haiti, held talks this week with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in Washington. The talks covered “the main economic, political, and […]
Above: OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza (right) and SICA Secretary General Hugo Martinez in Washington, DC (Photo: Organization of American States) By the Caribbean Journal staff Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza met Friday with his counterpart from the Central American Integration System (SICA), Hugo Martinez, in Washington, DC. The two […]
Above: CARICOM headquarters in Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM has named Manorma Soeknandan the regional body’s new Deputy Secretary General. Soeknandan, a native of Suriname, succeeds Ambassador Lolita Applewhaite in the role. Soeknandan has previously served as Suriname’s Ambassador to Guyana, as Ambassador to CARICOM and to Jamaica. During her time as Ambassador […]
Above: Haiti (CJ photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is urging the international community to “increase its aid” to Haiti, he said in a message released Friday. Ban, who released the statement ahead of the fourth anniversary of the earthquake, said that progress had been made in areas like […]
Above: CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff The CARICOM Secretariat has begun the process of restructuring, according to Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque. The reforms have already been instituted in corporate areas, human resource management, finance and the way projects are managed, he said this week. “There is still some […]
Above: the meeting in Washington (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago Foreign Minister Winston Dookeran met Monday with Organization of American States Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in Washington. The meeting, which followed Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s trip to the United States, occurred during the context of a […]
Above: Grenada Foreign Minister Nickolas Steele and OAS SG Jose Miguel Insulza (OAS Photo/Maria Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada Foreign Minister Nickolas Steele met Thursday in Washington with Jose Miguel Insulza, the Secretary General of the Organization of American States. The talks focused on issues related to the “development of the Caribbean […]
Above: Nassau (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Irwin LaRocque will be making an official visit to the Bahamas beginning Wednesday. LaRocque will meet with Bahamian Foreign Minister Frederick Mitchell, National Security Minister Bernard Nottage and Prime Minister Perry Christie. On Thursday, he will also meet with CARICOM Youth Ambassadors. Following […]
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