Export head wants one export, distribution point
By Avia Collinder, Business Reporter From Jamaica Gleaner Pamela Coke-Hamilton, executive director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) is challenging private-sector companies within the region to invest in unified warehousing, marketing, and distribution networks which she said can…
Coast Guard Cutter Dependable to return to Cape May
CAPE MAY – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Dependable is schedule to return home to Cape May at 11 a.m. Friday. The crew patrolled a vast geographic area over the 60-day deployment, from the Florida Straits to the…
Study finds Caribbean share of global tourism declining
From Jamaica Gleaner Tourists at a beach in Negril, Westmoreland. – File CMC: A study examining what is driving the tourism flows in the Caribbean has found that the region’s share of the global tourism market is declining. The International…
Tackling violence is a national undertaking
By The Caribbean Voice From Stabroek news The Caribbean Voice comprises thirty suicide-prevention advocates/activist, drawn from the USA, Canada, the UK and the Caribbean, including Guyana, among whom there are three pastors and three pandits, along with educators, youth activists,…
Things that matter: Our history, culture and the museum journal
By Sir Henry Fraser From Barbados Advocate “What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” (C.L.R.James, famous Trinidadian intellectual and writer) In Beyond a boundary, that great book by C.L.R. James, which every West Indian should read, his…
Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: The other side of the story
By Mark Burton and Chuck Kaufman from Liberation Nicaragua’s Grand Canal: The other side of the story Nicaragua is on the verge of beginning construction of a trans-isthmus canal, a dream that goes back to the colonial era. The canal…
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Cubans picked up at sea by U.S. Coast Guard rises nearly 75% By Christine Armario – AP From Clash Daily The flood gates are opening. What do you think about this increase? Is it good… bad… or ugly? MIAMI (AP)…
Caribbean Journal says: Three new reasons to visit Grand Cayman this season
By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Grand Cayman has long been one of the most popular Caribbean destinations but this season there are several new reasons – beyond Stingray City and those famous Seven Mile sands – to visit the…
Cayman Islands firefighters bring Christmas cheer
At a happy afternoon party that was attended by over 300 kids this year, firefighters of the Cayman Islands Fire Service once again provided some seasonal cheer as well as food and gifts from Santa on Saturday 20 December 2014…