UNWTO seeks to broaden tourism’s developmental role
Opinion December 1, 2017 | 2:00 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor. A new and potentially challenging way of thinking about the future of tourism is evolving. It sees the industry as having[...]Reshaping inter-regional trade and investment
Economy November 24, 2017 | 1:04 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor. For decades, the Caribbean has been fixated on the need to export to, and import from its traditional markets in North America and Europe.[...]The surprising beneficiaries of the new US Cuba regulations
Opinion November 17, 2017 | 3:31 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor. Just over a week ago the US administration published new regulations governing travel and trade between the US and Cuba. Their effect is t[...]Tourism has a central role in driving development
Opinion November 10, 2017 | 11:12 am
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor In just over a week’s time, Jamaica will host a major international conference intended to reposition tourism as a global driver of susta[...]The future of Caribbean sugar
Opinion November 3, 2017 | 1:25 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor In a few days’ time, CARICOM’s Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) will meet. Among the topics that Ministers and off[...]Russian interest in the Caribbean continues to grow
Opinion October 27, 2017 | 2:50 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor On October 10, a report appeared in the Russian media indicating that Russia and Suriname are close to signing a military [...]Puerto Rico: an island apart
Opinion October 6, 2017 | 1:22 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor On October 2, two of the world’s leading humanitarian relief agencies, Oxfam and Save the Children, felt it necessary to speak out about [...]Rethinking the relationship with Europe
Opinion September 29, 2017 | 1:25 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor On October 1, the European Union’s sugar regime, which has for decades sustained the production of cane and raw sugar in the Caribbean, c[...]The conviction of Mondesí
Opinion September 22, 2017 | 1:55 pm
(Translation by DT) The ruling handed down by a San Cristóbal court that convicts former city mayor Raúl Mondesí and other officials must be seen from the context of a change of national mentali[...]The value of the genuine Caribbean
Opinion September 15, 2017 | 1:17 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor In an age when most in the business of tourism are seeking to increase their income by selling authenticity to millennials and baby-boomers[...]A moment to ask some challenging questions
Opinion September 8, 2017 | 4:58 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor. A year from now, negotiations will begin for a successor agreement to the Cotonou Convention. The treaty, wh[...]Is Mexico about to deepen its regional relations?
Opinion September 1, 2017 | 3:00 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor As the year proceeds, Mexico, the world’s thirteenth largest economy, is expected to rebalance its international trade relationships. [...]Venezuela: the longer view
Opinion August 25, 2017 | 1:02 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Having established a constituent assembly able to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution, take essential political and econom[...]Trump’s remarks give Venezuela breathing space
Opinion August 18, 2017 | 1:12 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Speaking on August 11, at a press conference at one of his golf courses, the US President, Donald Trump, scored the equivalent of a foreign[...]Has rail a future in the Caribbean?
Opinion August 11, 2017 | 2:28 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Historically Caribbean railways existed to carry cane to factories, or raw sugar and molasses to ports. Later they were used to transport o[...]Visitor arrivals numbers are not the whole story
Opinion August 4, 2017 | 1:25 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor When it comes to valuing tourism’s economic contribution, most Caribbean Governments share publicly only arrivals numbers and the country[...]Should it matter who pays for Caribbean development?
Opinion July 28, 2017 | 2:48 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor By any measure, the Caribbean’s infrastructure requirements are substantial. If the region is to be able to increase its competitiveness [...]Brexit, global trade and the overseas territories
Opinion July 21, 2017 | 1:16 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor Last month a report appeared indicating just how important one of the Caribbean’s overseas territories has become in facilitating global [...]Who will reform CARICOM?
Opinion July 14, 2017 | 1:11 pm
David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor There is a pervasive view within and beyond the Caribbean that the regional integration process is foundering, and that its progress is being [...]Re-imagining Caribbean cities
Opinion July 7, 2017 | 1:40 pm
By David Jessop, Dominican Today senior Op-Ed contributor According to speakers at the recently held Chicago Forum on Global Cities, nearly four fifths of future growth is likely to come between no[...]
