Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (https://www.cijn.org/author/ivan-cairo/)
As a journalist he travelled extensively throughout the Caribbean and South-America, French-Guiana, USA, Mexico, Taiwan and China covering mostly political issues including various Summits of the Americas, Caricom Summits, UN Climate Summit and other events. He also reports on a regular basis on crime issues including drug trafficking, money laundering and human rights. He is a former president of the Surinamese Association of Journalists and attended numerous journalism training workshops and events in Suriname, the Caribbean and the USA and did a course in Financial and Business News Reporting at Reuters in London in 2012. He is also one of the founding fathers of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers. Ivan Cairo joined ‘de Ware Tijd’ newspaper in February 2002 and he is also a correspondent for several regional magazines, newspapers and news agencies in Guyana, Barbados and St. Vincent & the Grenadines. In August 2014 he won the Journalism Award 2014 and published his first novel, ‘Fatale Zonden’, in November 2014. In 2018 he won the Award for Journalism organized by the Center for Communications and Public Relations
A hotel. A highway. A port. The prime minister’s house. For Caribbean countries, one of the most visible, expansive, and expensive forms of Beijing’s engagement with the region is its financing of large-scale infrastructure projects.