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Month: May 2015

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How to See James Bond's Jamaica

Above: Goldeneye in Jamaica By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Get your Goldfinger on at Jamaica’s GoldenEye Hotel & Resort (former home of James Bond creator, author Ian Fleming), where they’ve just announced a new promotional package that allows guests […]

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Haiti Still Faces “Humanitarian Emergency” From Cholera

Above: the UN’s Pedro Medrano Rojas (UN Photo/Paulo Filgueiras) By the Caribbean Journal staff While Haiti’s cholera problems may not be receiving as much media attention of late, the country still faces a humanitarian emergency, according to Pedro Medrano Rojas, […]

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Caribbean Home: A Private Island for Less Than $2 Million

Above: Finley Cay near Eleuthera By the Caribbean Journal Caribbean Home continues our tour across the region’s private island listings for a property near Eleuthera in the Bahamas. It’s called Finley Cay, and it’s about an hour by boat from […]

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Melia Reports Strong Caribbean Growth

Above: the Paradisus Palma Real in the Dominican Republic’s Punta Cana region By the Caribbean Journal staff Melia Hotels International reported strong growth in the Americas in the first quarter of 2015, according to a new statement from the company. […]


United States, Cuba Set to Resume Talks on Reopening Embassies

Above: Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson By the Caribbean Journal staff The United States and Cuba will be resuming their high-level bilateral talks next week on re-establishing diplomatic ties and reopening embassies, the State Department […]


Southwest Announces Launch Dates for New Caribbean Flights

Above: a Southwest Airlines flight By the Caribbean Journal staff Southwest Airlines has revealed launch dates for a host of new flights out of Houston’s William P Hobby Airport. The company announced this week that it would be launching daily, […]

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In Puerto Rico, Turning the Travel World into an Island

Above: the Puerto Rico Convention Center By Alexander Britell SAN JUAN — The Caribbean’s newest travel conference began with a simple idea. “We decided that the world should become an island,” says Ingrid Rivera Rocafort, executive of the director of […]


Guyana Election Results: Opposition Wins By Just Under 5,400 Votes

Above: the APNU+AFC’s David Granger By the Caribbean Journal staff Four days later, the Guyana election results are in. In a nail-biter of an election, Guyana’s opposition has claimed victory, according to preliminary results released Thursday by the Guyana Elections […]


St Vincent and the Grenadines Tourism on the Rebound

Above: Young Island off the coast of St Vincent (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff After a poor showing last year, St Vincent and the Grenadines’ tourism sector has rebounded strongly so far in 2015, according to data from […]

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Puerto Rico Set for Restaurant Week

Above: croquetas at Cocina Abierto By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Looking for a reason to visit Puerto Rico? Here’s a yummy one. Puerto Rico’s Restaurant Week starts on May 27, featuring prix-fixe lunch and dinner menus from $20 to […]


Two New Properties On Way in St Lucia

Above: St Lucia (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff There are two new St Lucia hotels coming on stream, according to the government. The first hotel is a major project by Canadian travel giant Sunwing at the former Smugglers […]


La Quinta Opens First Honduras Hotel

Above: LQ Tegucigalpa By the Caribbean Journal staff US-based hotel giant La Quinta is expanding in the Caribbean Basin. The company announced the opening of its first LQ Hotel in Honduras’ capital of Tegucigalpa. The property is the company’s first […]


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