St. Maarten’s tourism sector is on a sizzling trajectory, with both air and cruise arrivals surging in the second quarter of 2025 — making it one of the fastest-growing destinations in the Caribbean right now. The island welcomed 209,876 airport passenger arrivals at Princess Juliana International Airport (PJIAE) between April and June, marking a 16.9 percent increase compared to the […]
Above: tasting rums at Foursquare (all photos by CJ) BARBADOS — IT’S A place where the rum flows like water. On every block, at every street corner, there’s a rum shop or a rum bar or a place to find an almost sinfully affordable glass of Mount Gay rum, or so it seems. Indeed, Barbados […]
THERE WAS a time when rum was as American as apple pie. Before there even was apple pie. In the colonial period, rum was one of the major industries of America, and the spirit’s popularity continued to soar for years, until Prohibition ground the country’s industry to a halt. But what did early American rum […]
It’s the rum capital of the Caribbean — at least if you go by the number of distilleries. The French Caribbean island of Martinique has a whopping 11 distilleries, with even more rum brands, each producing the department’s signature rhum agricole, made out of fresh sugar cane juice, not molasses like its Spanish and English-speaking […]
