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Mariah Carey’s Caribbean Getaway

By: Caribbean Journal Staff - January 7, 2016 - 5:31 pm

The Caribbean’s celebrity index continues to rise.

After high-profile visits from Christie Brinkley, Justin Bieber and the Hiltons, among others.

Another superstar visited the region recently, with music superstar Mariah Carey coming to Antigua and Barbuda this week.

Carey posted photos to her Instagram account of her trip, with a slate of photos on the beach and snapping one with Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne.

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She also reportedly dined at the island’s best restaurant, Sheer Rocks, located on the grounds of the CocoBay resort.

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Above: the Sheer Rocks restaurant

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Carey’s boyfriend, Australian native James Packer, is working with Hollywood legend and hotelier Robert De Niro on a $250 million project in Barbuda.

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That project is located at the onetime K-Club property, and is planned to debut under the “Paradise Found” brand name.

De Niro was named a Special Economic Envoy by Browne last year.

The project part of what has been a wave of new hotel developments in Antigua.

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