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This All-Inclusive St. Thomas Resort Hides Bottles of Rum Underwater — and Guests Snorkel to Find Them

At the all-inclusive Bolongo Bay Beach Resort in St. Thomas, the water in front of the beach is usually busy with fins and masks. Guests drift over the sandy bottom, scanning the bay the way snorkelers always do, eyes tuned for movement, color, something worth stopping for. Then someone spots glass. Not coral, not sea […]

Haiti, Bahamas Sign Three Agreements

Above: Haiti President Michel Martelly with Bahamian officials in Nassau (Photo: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and the Bahamas have signed three new wide-ranging bilateral agreements, the two sides announced this week. The agreements were signed during a visit to the Bahamas by Haiti President Michel Martelly. The pacts covered agriculture, the […]

Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Agree on New Action to Combat Illegal Migration

Above: TCI and Bahamian officials in Nassau (TCIG) By the Caribbean Journal staff The governments of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas have agreed on new action to “combat illegal immigration, drug smuggling and illegal fishing,” the countries said in a statement. The agreement came following talks between Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie, […]

Barbados to Host Meeting of Latin American, Caribbean Tourism Ministers

Above: Barbados Tourism Minister Richard Sealy and OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in Washington (OAS Photo/Maria Patricia Leiva) By the Caribbean Journal staff Barbados will soon play host to the 22nd Inter-American Congress of Ministers and High-Level Authorities of Tourism. The meeting, which will be held Sep. 3 and 4 in Bridgetown, will take […]

Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Agree on New Action to Combat Illegal Migration

Above: Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic’s tourism boom continues. The region’s leading tourism destination received just under 2.7 million tourist stopover arrivals in the first half of 2014, an 8.4 percent improvement over the same period in 2013, according to new data from the […]

Grenada Sees Surge in Tourist Arrivals

Above: the Sandals LaSource Grenada Resort (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism to Grenada is surging, according to new data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. Tourism stopover arrivals to the island increased by 18.6 percent in the first half of 2014, compared to the first six months of 2013, according to the CTO […]

Haiti Continues Growth in Tourist Arrivals

Above: the Abaka Bay Resort in Haiti By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s renewed focus on tourism seems to be paying off so far in 2014. After a 2013 that saw a 20.2 percent improvement in arrivals compared to the previous year, Haiti’s numbers continue to grow. The Caribbean nation experienced a 14.9 percent increase […]

Op-Ed: The Jamaica-Israel Relationship

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor The government of Jamaica recently issued a statement criticizing the current bombardment of Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces. The statement was signed by Ambassador Courtenay Rattray. Of course, the Jamaican position does not differ greatly from that of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and that of the foreign […]

JetBlue to Launch Service to Curaçao

Above: Willemstad, Curacao (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell JetBlue’s Caribbean push shows no signs of slowing down. The New York City-based carrier announced Wednesday that it would be launching service to another new Caribbean destination, beginning service from New York to Curaçao on Dec. 2. The service would become the only nonstop service from New […]

How Caribbean Hotels Are Faring in 2014

By the Caribbean Journal staff Caribbean hotel occupancy is up just 0.2 percent for the first half of 2014, compared to the first six months of 2013, according to newly released data from STR. Hotel occupancy in the region stood at 72 percent at the end of June, a 0.2 percent increase over the first […]

Colombia, Panama Presidents Hold Talks

Above: Panama President Juan Carlos Varela and Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos (Photo: OP Panama) By the Caribbean Journal staff Colombia President Juan Manuel Santos and Panama President Juan Carlos Varela met this week for high-level talks in Panama City. The two sides agreed to relaunch a proposed Electrical Interconnection Project between the two countries, […]

Op-Ed: China in Cuba

By Jaime Suchlicki Op-Ed Contributor IN THE 1960s, Fidel Castro mocked Chinese leader Mao as a senile, old man. Naturally, in his quest to oppose the US, Castro sided with the Soviets and opened Cuba’s door to nuclear missiles. Three decades of close collaboration followed. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was forced […]

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