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These 14 Caribbean Resorts Are Perfect for Your Next Snorkeling Vacation

The Caribbean looks completely different once you slip beneath the surface. A few kicks from the beach can bring you face to face with sea turtles gliding through seagrass, coral formations buzzing with tropical fish and shipwrecks slowly becoming part of the reef. Some islands even have underwater sculpture parks, blue holes and protected marine […]

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This Caribbean City’s New Hotel-Museum

It’s the first of its kind in the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo: a hotel-museum. The redesigned Hotel Beaterio is the latest addition to one of the gems of the Caribbean’s cultural offering, the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo. The hotel has reopened following a major renovation project, offering guests the chance to stay […]

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Marriott Has Big Plans in This Caribbean City

Marriott International has its sights set on one of the Caribbean’s hottest hotel development markets: Cartagena, Colombia. The company announced plans to open two new hotels in Cartagena by 2018: the 210-room AC Hotel by Marriott Cartagena, and the 201-room Cartagena Marriott Hotel. Both will be the company’s first hotels in Cartagena, which has seen […]

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Big Plans in the Works for This Caribbean City

Is a transformation in the works for the capital of the Caribbean’s smallest country? St Kitts and Nevis is looking to “revitalize” its capital, Basseterre, the country’s government said this week. Work has already begun to resurface the roadways at the Basseterre Ferry Terminal, and plans are now underway for the construction of a new […]

Marriott Has Big Plans in This Caribbean City

Above: Cartagena’s historic centre (Caribbean Journal photo: KU) By Alexander Britell Santo Domingo. Havana. Kingston. Port-au-Prince. San Juan. These are the cities that are typically mentioned in conversations about the largest Caribbean cities. But there’s another city on the Caribbean Sea that’s among the biggest in the region, one that has heretofore remained under the […]

Six Great Art Galleries in Nassau

The Bahamas is doing some fascinating things in the art world. It seems that there’s always a new gallery opening up — you can even find art exhibited in government buildings (through initiatives like the Public Treasury Art Programme). Indeed, the capital of the Bahamas is one of the Caribbean’s Best Cities For Art and […]

In Jacmel, Haiti, Making Schools Accessible For the Disabled

Above: Gerald Oriol, Jr., Haiti’s Secretary of State for the Integration of Persons with Disabilities (Photo: James English) By James English CJ Contributor LATE LAST month, the Haitian government and USAID inaugurated Ecole Nationale Edèze Gousse and Lycée Célie Lamour, existing primary and secondary schools in Jacmel that were recently rehabilitated into fully handicap-accessible facilities […]

Six Great Places to Eat in Santo Domingo

Santo Domingo made our list of the top 10 cities for food in the Caribbean, and any visit to the Dominican Republic’s capital will make it abundantly clear why. Here’s a list of six terrific places to chow down in the oldest European city in the Americas. La Briciola This open-air restaurant housed in a […]

The Caribbean's Best Cities For Art - 2013

People go to the Caribbean for all kinds of reasons — many of which we’ve written about. But there is another kind of traveler — the one who seeks adventure not just on the beach or in the water, but in galleries, museums and the like. The Caribbean is full of wonderful art destinations, and these […]

Five Caribbean Cities For Great Shopping

We like the beach, the culture, the food. But sometimes going to the Caribbean is really just an excuse to go shopping. And whether you’re stopping in port or on a long vacation, you’ll find everything you want to buy at these five Caribbean destinations. Where is your go-to shopping destination? Tell us in the […]

The 10 Best Caribbean Cities For Food

Above: Port of Spain, Trinidad Every Caribbean island has its share of great eateries. But if you’re visiting a Caribbean destination solely for food, you generally like to have a high concentration of restaurants all within a short radius. So we thought we’d put together this year’s ranking of the 10 best cities in the […]