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This Adults-Only Jamaica All-Inclusive Resort Just Reopened — With 401 Ocean-View Suites, a Rooftop Infinity Pool, and Overwater Bungalows

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Jamaica’s north coast has its famous names, but there are still stretches that are under the radar — the kind of places you reach after the airport roads thin out, where the scenery turns greener, the shoreline deepens, and the island feels less like a resort corridor and more like Jamaica. It’s a bit off […]

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Bermuda Economy Contracted By 2-2.5 Percent in 2013: Report

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff Bermuda’s GDP contracted by between 2 and 2.5 percent in 2013, according to estimates from the island’s Ministry of Finance included in the recently-released National Economic Report. That was lower than the economy’s contraction in 2012, when GDP fell by around 4.9 percent. The total number of jobs […]

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Bermuda Reports Drop in Crime

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff Crime in Bermuda continues to fall, according to data released by the Bermuda Police Service. For the first time in five years, all major crime categories are on the decline, the force said, with total crime down 12.8 percent last year compared to 2012. Crimes against the person […]

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Bermuda Tourism Authority Names CEO

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bermuda Tourism Authority has appointed Bill Hanbury its new Chief Executive Officer. The appointment took effect on Monday. Hanbury had previously served as the CEO of the United Way of the National Capital Area, where he worked from 2009 to 2013. He had previously served as President […]


Bermuda Reports Drop in Crime

Above: the Elbow Beach Bermuda Resort By the Caribbean Journal staff The Elbow Beach Hotel & Development Company will be taking over management at the Elbow Beach, Bermuda resort when the management contract of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group expires later this year. Mandarin’s management contract expires on March 31. It had managed the property since […]

Bermuda Swears In New Deputy Governor

Above: Ginny Ferson (centre) By the Caribbean Journal staff Bermuda swore in Ginny Ferson as the territory’s new Deputy Governor on Friday. Ferson is the first woman to serve as Deputy Governor of Bermuda. She succeeds former Deputy Governor David Arkley. Ferson joined the United Kingdom’s Diplomatic Service in 1987; she has served in diplomatic […]

Bermuda, US Sign FATCA Agreement

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff The governments of Bermuda and the United States have signed an agreement on the US’ Foreign Account Compliance Act Regulations. The deal, which is a model two intergovernmental agreement, was signed by US Consul General in Bermuda Robert Settje and Bermuda Finance Minister Bob Richards. FATCA is a […]

Bermuda to Put Gaming Question to Parliament, Shelves Referendum Plan

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff Bermuda’s government is shelving plans to put the question of gaming to a popular referendum, and will be moving the question to a vote by Parliament, the ruling One Bermuda Alliance party announced. Instead, the government will be conducting a public information and consultation campaign, it said, before […]

Bermuda's Fairmont Hamilton Princess Resort Set to Begin $70M Renovation

Above: the Fairmont Hamilton Princess By the Caribbean Journal staff A major renovation project is slated to begin in a few weeks at the Hamilton Princess Hotel in Bermuda, according to the government. The project, which will reportedly cost around $70 million, will be dispersed over several phases. It had originally been slated to cost […]

Bermuda Finance Minister: "Major Changes" Have to Be Made

Above: Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff Bermuda Finance Minister Everard T (Bob) Richards said he has “looked under the hood” of the territory’s finances, and is vowing to make major changes in the way the territory manages its finances. “It is clear that the state of government finances is every bit as bad as […]

Owners of Bermuda's Fairmont Hamilton Purchase Site of Former Sonesta Hotel

Above: the former Sonesta in Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff The site of the former Sonesta Hotel in Bermuda has been sold, according to global brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle, which handled the transaction with Bermuda’s Rego Sotheby’s International Realty. The 32-acre site was purchased by Peter, Alexander and Andrew Green from a US-based financial […]

Rum Journal: The Rum Awards 2012

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR— award season. When we look back on 2012, it was a strong year for rum across the Caribbean, from Barbados to Martinique, the Dominican Republic to Guyana, and everywhere in between. Rum Journal traveled across the region, sampling the best cane spirits — and some of the best rum drinks […]

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