Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network

Is Barbados Keeping Cruise Tourism and Marine Protection on an Even Keel?

Cruise passengers wait anxiously to disembark. When the doors finally open, they scurry down the gangway into waiting taxis ...
Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network

Two Weeks Later, Relentless Resilience Amidst Hurricane Melissa’s Aftermath

As the sun rises each morning over the battered coasts and battered communities, the scars left by Hurricane Melissa are ...
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Tricked into Sex Slavery: Global Crackdown hasn’t Stopped Caribbean Traffickers

Talia was struggling to make ends meet as a bartender in Santiago, Cuba, when a friend told her about a lucrative job opportunity in Suriname. The 26-year-old mother — who asked to be identified by a ...
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Online Fraud in St. Kitts and Nevis, a Pervasive Problem for Public, Law Enforcement and Banks

Law enforcement officials say that online scams in the twin-island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis have been on the rise since the start of the pandemic in 2020. But how the Royal St. Christopher ...
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Climate-Proofing Education: How Antigua & Barbuda is Tackling Rising Temperatures

Thousands of students who have headed back to school in Antigua and Barbuda since September, are being impacted by severe heat as global temperatures continue to rise. The heat is putting young ...
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Dominica at Risk of Losing its FreshWater Resource

‘A land of 365 rivers’ is just one of the phrases that describe the beautiful Caribbean island of Dominica. But with so many rivers and freshwater catchments, these questions come to mind: why do some ...
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Narco Links Suspected as Cattle Ranching Threatens Belize Rainforests

The Guatemalan cattle were back. Dozens of them grazed in the clearing around Valentin Camp, a Belize Defence Force observation post located deep in the protected Chiquibul Forest near Belize’s ...
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Oil Secrets of Suriname: Public Largely in the Dark as Offshore Dreams Deferred

For the people of Suriname, offshore oil is supposed to be a game-changer. As they have struggled through a protracted economic crisis over the past decade, they have watched lucrative deep-water ...
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Barbados’ Four Seasons Still Stalled After Seventy Seasons

After almost 20 years and four successive government administrations, the Four Seasons Hotel is still a concrete skeleton of failure standing in Barbados’ tourism landscape. The partially built ...
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Barbados’ Forgotten Few

There is evidence that the ageing population of Barbados is being disproportionately affected by climate-related illnesses such as dengue fever, respiratory infections, asthma, and heat exhaustion.
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St Kitts and Nevis – Ripening Plans in the Agriculture Sector – Facing Food Security Challenges

Farmers in St. Kitts and Nevis are losing out on more than USD $66 Million (EC$180m) in revenue annually due to their limited knowledge and skills as entrepreneurs within the agriculture sector and it ...