Star ratings and the authentic Caribbean
Some time ago I received an email asking me how many five star hotels there are in the Caribbean.
Some time ago I received an email asking me how many five star hotels there are in the Caribbean.
On December 13, the US Congress sent to President Obama The United States-Caribbean Strategic Engagement Act of 2016 for signature into law.
At the end of last month, China published a detailed 16-page document, ‘China’s Policy Paper on Latin America and the Caribbean’, which sets out a new approach to relations between the Americas and the world’s second largest economy.
On November 28, the US President-elect, Donald Trump said that “if Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the US as a whole, I will terminate deal”.
Being able to identify the policy changes that will transform the future is normally far from easy.
While most of the world has been focused on the outcome of the US presidential elections, other events of long-term importance to the region have been taking place.
Dispossessed by economic globalisation, faced with growing economic inequality, and wanting change, the people of the United States have elected Donald Trump to be their President.
In a few days’ time, the outcome of the US presidential election will be known.
Just over a week ago Google, Facebook, Amazon, Twitter, Netflix, Visa and many more premium providers of global web services, temporarily went offline.
What does solidarity between nations mean in the early twenty first century?
On November 29, Ministers from the 79-member African, Caribbean and Pacific group of states (the ACP) will meet in Brussels.
After a period of uncertainty, it has been confirmed that the Paris Agreement on Climate Change will enter into force on November 4.
How should the anglophone Caribbean respond to Brexit? Should it, based on the expert advice it has received from the Caricom Secretariat and its own trade negotiators, now be actively exploring with the UK an approach that secures an equivalent trade relationship to that which it has with the EU under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA)?
A few days ago the US President, Barack Obama, gave what in effect was a farewell address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Part 2 How should we regard the Caribbean’s future? Should it be with pessimism as some commentators suggest, or with optimism?
Over the next ten years it is likely that the ways in which we all think about the Caribbean will change radically.
In the middle of last month Danilo Medina was sworn in as President of the Dominican Republic for a second term.
A few days ago, Karolin Troubetzkoy, the President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), spoke to the media about some of the challenges that she believes now face the tourism sector in the region; the industry that in recent years has become the single largest contributor to Caribbean economic growth.
Last month the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) published a paper ‘Chinese rise in the Caribbean – What does it mean for Caribbean Stakeholders?’
At the end of July eleven individuals received jail sentences in Havana of between 15 to 30 years for attempting to traffic narcotics into Cuba from Jamaica.
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