Barbados is looking especially good for Labor Day this year. JetBlue is flying nonstop from New York to Barbados, and American Airlines is serving the island from both New York and Miami, giving travelers in two of the Caribbean’s biggest U.S. gateways several ways to turn the holiday into a long weekend. Labor Day falls […]
GRAND CUL DE SAC — It’s early. Not morning, but not quite lunchtime. On a hot summer day in the French Caribbean, that means only one thing: a Ti’ Punch. The world’s greatest (and simplest) cocktail: Rhum agricole blanc, a quarter lime (or sometimes more), cane sugar. Sweet enough for this time of day, powerful […]
For a few days in early November, St Barth will become the center of the culinary world. This year will be the third edition of the St Barth Gourmet Festival, bringing together top chefs, restaurants and hotels for a gastronomic extravaganza. The four-day event will take place from Nov. 3-6. Some of the island’s leading […]
Ralph Higgs, the Turks and Caicos Islands’ director of tourism, has tendered his resignation. Higgs, who has been serving with the board for 20 years, will leave his post effective Sept. 30. Higgs was named by Caribbean Journal’s Caribbean Travel Awards as the region’s Tourism Director of the Year in 2014. “The fundamentals of TCI […]
