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The road to recovery - Caribbean Tourism

Posted by CaribShout on October 9, 2009 at 10:29pm

Recession-hit Caribbean tourism destinations are still struggling to overturn what have over the past several months been declining prospects. But the signs are better globally, and the region expects that to filter down to its own industries sooner

Historic Haiti trade mission by Bill Clinton fuels conversation, optimism

Posted by CaribShout on October 6, 2009 at 6:24pm

Bill Clinton, UN special envoy to Haiti and former US president, center, shakes hands with people during his visit to a private port where a new free trade zone will be located in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Oct. 2, 2009. Clinton and a trade delegation

Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival set to rock Montego Bay for 7 days in 2010

Posted by CaribShout on October 4, 2009 at 6:00pm

Lady Saw captures the attention of, Cat Coore, Donahue Jarrett, Walter Elmore and David Shields. Kingston, Jamaica - The Jamaica Tourist Board, Rose Hall Developments and Air Jamaica have partnered once again with TurnKey Productions to bring an aw

The Fashion Industry - Ambassadors of the Jamaica brand? The view from Australia

Posted by Hume Johnson PhD on September 26, 2009 at 5:39am

Recently, I came across a series of fascinating articles on the Australian Fashion industry and how it was being positioned to service the Australia brand internationally. Indeed Austrade’s (Australian Trade Commission) National Manager, Rob Sutton c

The Caribbean and global warming

Posted by CaribShout on October 4, 2009 at 1:30am

Dramatic new projections for global warming have raised fears of the severe consequences for low-lying areas of the world, including in the Caribbean. The results from computer modelling used by the British Met Office and released this week at a co

Colombia seeks eco-tourism boost

Posted by CaribShout on September 28, 2009 at 9:00pm

By Henry Mance Residents of the town of La Macarena frequently toss a phrase into conversation: "Cuando estaba la guerrilla..." - "When the guerrillas were here..." It is an understated way of describing the region's past troubles. Between 1998 and

St Kitts PM says economic crisis requires quick move to economic union

Posted by CaribShout on October 1, 2009 at 9:11am

BASSETERRE, St Kitts, September 30, 2009 - St Kitts and Nevis' Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas says pressing forward with a meaningful economic union can help ameliorate many of the risks faced by Eastern Caribbean countries in the global financial

Offshore centres hit back

Posted by CaribShout on September 28, 2009 at 9:00pm

Offshore jurisdictions in the Caribbean have hit back at what they called a 'witch hunt' against them, even as they sought to be removed from an international list of non-compliant tax havens. Financial centres in the region and elsewhere have been

Caricom pays tribute to Caribbbean literary icons

Posted by CaribShout on September 28, 2009 at 9:30pm

Trevor Rhone. GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments have paid tribute to three internationally renowned literary figures who died earlier this month. In a statement, the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat said the region had l

Cherine Anderson Charts on Billboard!!!

Posted by CaribShout on September 28, 2009 at 10:30pm

Cherine performing in Los Angeles, CA 09/23/2009 Cherine Anderson may be the first Jamaican female artist in recent times to hit not one but five Billboard charts simultaneously. The feat brings about another first in Anderson’s short career, as sh

Raul Castro pushes Cubans to rethink socialism

Posted by CaribShout on September 23, 2009 at 9:25pm

By Marc Frank HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans began taking a hard look this week at entrenched customs like food rationing, pilfering on the job, cradle-to-grave subsidies and black market trading in a national debate called by President Raul Castr

Getting US attention

Posted by CaribShout on September 21, 2009 at 7:30pm

By Sir Ronald Sanders Business analyst and former Caribbean diplomat During this month, I was invited to deliver a lecture to 85 high-ranking military officers from Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle-East on the subje

Australian Writer Goes Gaga Over Reggae (Sample Lymie Murray songs she heard inside)

Posted by Hume Johnson PhD on September 25, 2009 at 5:30pm

Jamaican Reggae singer, Lymie MurrayTara Gething is not a big fan of reggae; never was. “My genre is metal”, she says with a wide grin, knowing fully well that this would freak out the average person. So I freaked out. Not at the thought of the outla

Bahamas outlook clouds for Haitians

Posted by CaribShout on September 21, 2009 at 7:08pm

Thousands of Haitians see the Bahamas as a land of promise. By Nick Davis - BBC News, The Bahamas Row after row of taxis are lined up along the street, their drivers milling about as tourists stream off the latest cruise ship to have docked in Nass

Jamaican Author

Posted by Margaret Cezair Thompson on September 22, 2009 at 1:31pm

To find out more about me & my books go to my website www.margaretcezairthompson.com I also welcome comments, questions and discussion at -- http://www.myspace.com/thepiratesdaughterThe Pirate's DaughterSet in Port Antonio, Jamaica, winner of the Ess

Volunteers pick up several thousand pounds of trash and recyclables from Hellshire public beach.

Posted by Delroy A. Whyte-Hall on September 20, 2009 at 5:04pm

By Delroy A. Whyte-HallFreelance Writer/BloggerOn Saturday, September 19th, from 8:00am till 12 noon, over 500 volunteers from Kingston and St. Catherine took action to rid the Half Moon Public Beach at Hellshire in St. Catherine of unsightly and har

Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'

Posted by CaribShout on September 19, 2009 at 12:07am

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary poi

St Vincent ponders change to republic

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 9:47pm

Ralph Gonsalves wants a 'home-grown' constitution Guyana, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago among Commonwealth Caribbean nations have done it. Now St Vincent and the Grenadines is being asked to follow suit and ditch Queen Elizabeth of Britain as th

Possible 'beginning of the end' to Montserrat volcano eruptions

Posted by CaribShout on September 14, 2009 at 7:00pm

BRADES, Montserrat: The volcano has had a quiet six months since the last report and there was no extrusion of new lava and no explosions in that period. Surface activity was restricted to rockfalls and occasional small pyroclastic flows from the do

Six quit Bermuda's opposition; plan to form new party

Posted by CaribShout on September 14, 2009 at 7:26pm

HAMILTON, Bermuda, September 14, 2009 - Six members of the opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP) - including three parliamentarians, one Senator, the party's chairman and former deputy chair - have severed ties with the party and are planning to form