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Bonaire Culinary Team Wins Taste of the Caribbean Competition in Barbados

The Bonaire Culinary Team gets the crown.

Bonaire has earned one of the region’s top culinary honors, taking home the title of Caribbean National Culinary Team of the Year at the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Taste of the Caribbean competition. The event, held alongside the Caribbean Hospitality Industry Exchange Forum in Barbados from Nov. 16–18, brought together chefs and bartenders from across the […]

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Belize Is Reinventing the Dive Festival With Legendary Reefs, Marine Conservation, and a Sustainability Mission

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You’re drifting just above a coral wall, sunlight cutting down into the blue, parrotfish flashing past in quick bursts of color. Ahead, a sea turtle rises with deliberate grace. It’s a familiar dive in Belize, but this September there’s something different — something deeper. Belize, home to the planet’s second-largest barrier reef, is introducing a […]

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Bahamas Launches Sustainable Island Innovation Challenge

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The Bahamas has officially launched a new national initiative aimed at transforming the future of its tourism economy through innovation and sustainability. The Bahamas Sustainable Island Challenge, developed in partnership with UN Tourism and local tech incubator Innovate 242, was formally introduced during the 70th UN Tourism Regional Commission for the Americas, held in Lima, Peru from July 31 to […]

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Guyana Signs Historic Biodiversity Pact With Yale University

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The Government of Guyana has signed a landmark agreement with Yale University’s Centre for Biodiversity and Global Change, launching a transformative long-term collaboration aimed at protecting the planet’s biodiversity. ‘The move comes as the broader region looks to ensure a sustainable, nature-based future. The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), signed Wednesday at the inaugural Global Biodiversity […]


Bahamas Launches Sustainable Island Innovation Challenge

It starts on a quiet beach. A turtle slips into the surf, and with it begins one of the most compelling migrations in the natural world — and one of the most creative conservation campaigns in the Caribbean. This is the Tour de Turtles, an annual “migration marathon” created by the Sea Turtle Conservancy that tracks […]

Bonaire Sees Major Breakthrough in Coral Reef Restoration Effort

In a breakthrough moment for coral conservation in the Dutch Caribbean, Reef Renewal Foundation Bonaire successfully observed and collected grooved brain coral spawn across four sites on the island — producing more than 236,000 genetically unique larvae in a single night. The Friday night spawning event marks a critical success for RRFB’s coral breeding program, […]

This $49.5 Million Listing in the British Virgin Islands Home Comes With 1,000 Feet of White-Sand Beach

Valley Trunk Estate, an iconic family compound on a secluded white-sand bay, hits the market in the British Virgin Islands. One of the most significant real estate offerings in the British Virgin Islands—and the broader Caribbean—has just come to market. Premier Estate Properties and Christie’s International Real Estate British Virgin Islands have announced the co-listing […]

Alex Rodriguez Is Planning a Major Dominican Republic Real Estate Investment 

Major League Baseball legend and soon-to-be Minnesota Timberwolves co-owner Alex Rodriguez is planning a major real estate investment in the Dominican Republic, Caribbean Journal has learned.  Rodriguez is leading an investment that will pour approximately $1 billion into the Río San Juan area of the country, which is located on the north coast of the […]

From Marine Health to Resilience, a New Boost for Caribbean Tourism 

It’s a changing tourism landscape in the Caribbean right now, from the push to increase sustainability to the continued challenges posed by climate change.  A pair of new initiatives are trying to do something about that. The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association’s Education Foundation has revealed a pair of crucial new scholarships to help provided […]

Turks and Caicos’ Top Luxury Residential Project Just Eclipsed $78 Million in Sales

2020 changed things. It changed the nature of real estate globally — and it sent high-net-worth buyers in numbers to the islands of the Caribbean, in search of space, seclusion and new levels of luxury. That led, in large part, to one destination: the Turks and Caicos Islands, which has been one of the most […]

In Nassau, Celebrating Flamingos   

They’re right on the beach, staying in one of the Caribbean’s top luxury resorts. They’re treated like royalty, with everything they need at any time. They even do yoga.  And while they’re not exactly guests at Nassau’s Baha Mar, they are VIPs.  The newest arrivals at the Baha Mar are a group of eight baby […]

This 250-Acre Caribbean Private Island Just Listed for $38 Million 

A 250-acre private island has hit the market, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned.  And it’s as close as a private island gets to being a turn-key purchase.  So where is it?  Bird Cay, set in the Berry Islands of The Bahamas about 30 minutes by air from Nassau, just completed a major construction project that […]