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Dominican Republic Keeps Rewriting Tourism Records, Topping 8 Million Visitor Mark By August

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The Dominican Republic continues to rewrite its own records, welcoming 8,005,257 visitors in the first eight months of 2025, according to new data released by Tourism Minister David Collado. The figure represents a 49 percent increase compared to the same period in 2019, a 13 percent jump over 2023 and a 2.8 percent rise against […]

Rum Journal: Reaching Cloud Nine With Nicaragua's Flor de Caña

Above: Flor de Caña (Photo: Compana Licorera de Nicaragua) NICARAGUA’S Flor de Caña has long been a Rum Journal favourite among Central American rums. As RJ discussed last year, Central America has developed into one of the world’s hubs of rum production, with leading lights like Ron Zacapa (Guatemala) and Ron Zafra (Panama — which […]

Premier: Nevis Moving Forward on Geothermal Project

Above: Nevis Peak (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Nevis’ government says it is moving ahead with the planned geothermal project on Nevis Peak, Premier Joseph Parry said in his New Year’s address. The project, first launched by West Indies Power, had stalled over the last year. “After several hiccups, the government is confident […]

St Kitts Swears In New Governor General

Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has sworn in Sir Edmund Wickham as the twin-island federation’s new Governor General. The Governor General succeed Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian, announced his retirement at the end of December after 17 years. “Sir Edmund, a trained economist, has used his extraordinary […]

Premier: Nevis Moving Forward on Geothermal Project

 The latest property to be featured in Caribbean Home is a four-bedroom, four-bathroom single-family home on Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach. The beachfront property, which is located on a 0.34-acre site opposite Galleria Plaza, was built in 2006 at 42 Lizard Run. The party piece is that the home has 75 feet of sandy beach […]

Antigua Ramps Up Construction Projects

 Above: St John’s (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff A number of new construction projects will launch in Antigua in 2013, led by the $200 million Bau Panel project. Bau Panel, which is 25 percent owned by the government of Antigua, will employ more than 80 people, the government said. The project, which will […]

Murders in Jamaica Reach Nine-Year Low, Remain "Unacceptably High"

 Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Murders in Jamaica reached a nine-year low in 2012 as part of a “significant reduction” in criminal activity, according to Jamaica National Security Minister Peter Bunting. But the 1,087 murders in Jamaica in 2012 were still “unacceptably high,” Bunting said. The Minister said that there were […]

Op-Ed: Interpreting Haiti’s Revolution

 By Celucien Joseph Op-Ed Contributor   THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION of 1791-1804 was the “Big Bang” of the New World and the first “Great Exodus” of enslaved Africans out of New World slavery. CRL James, championing the significance of the revolution in the Antillean life and world, wrote in the Appendix of his revised classic book […]

Haiti Launches Construction on New Parliament Building

Above: a rendering of the project By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has laid the first stone on a new planned Parliament building in Port-au-Prince. The groundbreaking ceremony was attended by Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and other Haitian government officials and diplomats. Haiti’s previous Parliament building was destroyed during the earthquake in January 2010. […]

Contractor General Refers Jamaican Cabinet for Criminal Prosecution

 Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Office of the Contractor General in Jamaica said it formally referred Jamaica’s cabinet for criminal prosecution Wednesday, citing a failure to comply with statutory requisitions relating to a series of major investment projects. The OCG said it had attempted over the last eight months to […]

Dates Set for CTO State of the Industry Conference in Martinique

 Above: Fort de France, Martinique (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Martinique will be hosting the Caribbean Tourism Organization’s State of the Industry Conference from Oct. 16 to Oct. 18, the CTO announced in a release. The official opening will be on the 16th of October, followed by two full days of plenary sessions. […]

Barbados Looking to Yachting Market for Tourism Growth

 Above: Yachts in Bridgetown harbour (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados has invested almost $2 million to upgrade infrastructure at the inner basin of Bridgetown’s Careenage as part of a bid to develop yachting as a niche market in the country’s tourism sector. Over the last two years, Barbados Port, Inc has done […]