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American Airlines Is Adding Nonstop Flights to a Caribbean Island Famous for Its Blue Water, Waterfront Resorts, and Unmistakable Character

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Some islands are defined by scale; Bimini is defined by stories. It’s the closest Bahamian island to the U.S., but it has always carried an outsized place in the Caribbean imagination — a strip of land where writers, activists, fishermen and wanderers have all left their mark. With American Airlines launching the only nonstop flights […]

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Barack Obama's New Caribbean Push

Above: US President Barack Obama By Alexander Britell It’s been six years since United States President Barack Obama made his first visit to the Caribbean, on the occasion of the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain. And it’s been four since he visited Puerto Rico, his last visit to the region. While Obama […]

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United States' Joe Biden, Haiti’s Michel Martelly Hold Phone Dialogue

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly By the Caribbean Journal staff United States Vice President Joe Biden held a phone conversation with Haiti President Michel Martelly on Friday, according to a statement from the White House. The call continued the pair’s “dialogue on the United States’ long-term support for Haiti’s reconstruction, development, and democratic progress,” according […]

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Tessanne Chin Sings at the White House

Above: Tessanne Chin at the White House By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican rising music star Tessanne Chin performed at the White House in Washington, DC on Thursday evening. Chin, who won the NBC show “The Voice” last year, was part of a group of noted singers performing a programme called “Women of Soul: In […]


United States' Joe Biden, Haiti’s Michel Martelly Hold Phone Dialogue

Above: Joe Biden By the Caribbean Journal staff United States Vice President Joe Biden and Haiti President Michel Martelly held talks by phone on Wednesday, following a meeting between two during Biden’s visit to Trinidad last month. Biden reiterated the “United States’ continued long-term support for Haiti’s reconstruction and development as well as its democratic […]

Golding, in Letter, Holds to Claim That Manatt Did Not Work for Government

Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding, in a letter to the Commission of Enquiry investigating the Manatt, Phelps and Phillips extradition scandal, maintained that the Government did not hire the Manatt firm to lobby the White House on behalf of Christopher Coke. The Jamaica Labour Party has offered a waiver for a representative of the firm […]

White House: Cuba Travel Decisions Made By Treasury Department

Above: Havana By the Caribbean Journal staff Decisions to issue travel licenses over trips to Cuba are a matter for the Treasury Department and not the White House, according to Jay Carney, the White House Press Secretary. Carney was responding to a question at the daily White House press briefing Monday regarding the recent Cuba […]

Robinson: Manatt Approached Government

Lackston Robinson, Jamaica’s Deputy Solicitor General, testified that it was the law firm Manatt, Phelps and Phillips, and not the Jamaican Government/Jamaica Labour Party, that made the first move to solicit a contract to lobby the White House, he told the Commission of Enquiry Monday.