With its turquoise waters, legendary dive sites and easygoing Dutch Caribbean vibe, Bonaire has become one of the region’s fastest-growing escapes, with a tourism renaissance for most of the last three years. That demand showed no signs of slowing in Aug. 2025, when the island welcomed 14,435 stayover visitors — a 15.6 percent increase over […]
Above: Dominica (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of Dominica and Chinese firm Anhui Shui An Construction Group have signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction of a “modern type” hotel in the country. The project would be located on the existing site of the Public Works Corporation in Roseau. “As […]
Above: the signing ceremony in Brussels By the Caribbean Journal staff St Maarten Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams has signed an agreement with the European Union on a multimillion-dollar upgrade project of the island’s Dutch Quarter District. The EU-funded project will involve the “wide-scale infrastructural upgrading” of the Dutch Quarter District. Wescot-Williams signed the agreement in […]
BEQUIA —Making rum punch is an art form: there is no one perfect way to do it. (That’s without mentioning the perfect planteur, rum punch’s French Caribbean cousin.) Generally speaking, the further south you go, the more bitter the rum punch. To put it another way, the closer you get to Trinidad, the more likely […]
