Barbados has its landmark historic places. The Garrison in Bridgetown, with its parade ground and UNESCO World Heritage designation, anchors the island’s story (including the George Washington House). St. Nicholas Abbey draws visitors with its centuries-old Jacobean mansion and rum estate history. Gun Hill’s signal station and lion statue still look out across the countryside […]
Construction is officially underway on one of the Caribbean’s most anticipated new projects. Major construction has begun on the new Four Seasons, Caye Chapel in Belize, the first-ever private-island Four Seasons resort in the Americas. That includes hotel and residence foundations, infrastructure and amenities, according to a statement from the developer. The project will have […]
American Airlines has kicked off its newest service to Belize, Caribbean Journal has confirmed. The world’s largest airline is now operating weekly nonstop service between Los Angeles and Belize City. The service is operating once weekly on Saturdays; the flight takes around five hours. It’s the latest in a wave of new airlift for Belize, […]
The perception of private island resorts in the Caribbean is one of seclusion, of exclusivity; of, more often than nought, some degree of pretense. But that’s not always the case. And at a handful of private-island resorts in the Caribbean, you’ll find a completely different personality — approachable, fun-loving, quirky resorts that just so happen to […]
Alaska Airlines has launched its first-ever flights to the Caribbean destination of Belize. The new service is operating four times each week from both Seattle and Los Angeles to Belize City. The Los Angeles-Belize service operates on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The flight takes a little over five hours. The Seattle-Belize flights run on […]
Marriott International has officially opened its first-ever resort in Belize: the new Alaia Belize. The 155-unit residential resort, part of Marriott’s Autograph Collection, is set on more than 20 acres, with more than 1,000 feet of beachfront access in Belize’s popular Ambergris Caye. The San Pedro Town-area project, owned and developed by Andrew Ashcroft, is […]
There are jaguars in the cane fields. In the heart of a rainforest in southern Belize, one of the Caribbean’s newest rum companies is doing something very special. It’s a sustainable rum, a sugarcane rum and — and most importantly, a very good rum. It’s called Copalli, and it’s the next big from Belize. Despite a […]
By the Caribbean Journal staff Air Canada recently launched its first-ever flights to Belize. The new weekly nonstop flights between Toronto and Belize City are the latest service launch to what has become one of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing destinations. It’s part of a wider network expansion for Air Canada in the Caribbean, which has recently […]
By Gerard Best CJ Contributor PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten—Belize will host the fourth Caribbean Peering and Interconnection Forum, known as CarPIF, on June 6 and 7, 2018. The 2018 meeting is expected to be the largest to date, according to organizer Bevil Wooding, an Internet strategist with Packet Clearing House and executive director of the Caribbean Network […]
Tourism in Belize continues to boom, according to the destination’s latest arrival data. For the first nine months of 2016, Belize reported 293,622 stayover arrivals, a 16.4 percent increase over the same period in 2015 — making it one of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing tourism destinations. The country has seen 15 consecutive months of record-breaking overnight arrival […]
By GERARD BEST CJ Contributor BELIZE CITY, Belize—In response to a growing incidence of cyber-threats, Belize will host its first national cyber security symposium from April 24 to 27. “We have observed a disturbing rise in threats to critical network infrastructure, corporate networks and personal data. These threats are growing more frequent, more sophisticated and […]
Belize’s tourism sector is booming. The country’s latest figures show one of the fastest-growing destinations in the wider Caribbean region, with a 16.5 percent increase in stayover visitors compared to the first half of 2015. That represented a total of 213,430 visitors, the first time Belize has ever received more than 200,000 stayover visitors in […]
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