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At the Dominican Republic’s Teeth of the Dog, a Golf Legend Sees What Changed

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Golf legend Lorena Ochoa just played the newly restored Teeth of the Dog at Casa de Campo Resort & Villas in the Dominican Republic, adding another chapter to the Caribbean’s most famous golf course. Lorena Ochoa had never played Teeth of the Dog. On Sept. 4, the former world No. 1 finally got her first […]

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Turks and Caicos’ Sailrock Adds New Villa 

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI Sailrock South Caicos, a luxury villa resort and residential community in the Turks and Caicos Islands, is launching several new luxury villas with a range of configurations and homesites.  Among these is the Five-Bedroom Garden Estate Villa, to be located on a secluded beachfront site in the private […]

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The Climate for Caribbean Home Financing

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor to CJI Recent interest rate increases have certainly given pause to buyers considering plunking down cash on a new Caribbean home. But several top real estate brokers in Puerto Rico, St. Maarten/St. Martin and Turks and Caicos said now is actually the time to make the commitment. “The Puerto Rico […]

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$300 Million Private Island Project Breaks Ground in The Bahamas 

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A new $300 million private-island residential resort project has broken ground in The Bahamas.  The new Montage Cay, a partnership between Sterling Global and Montage International, held its groundbreaking this past week on what was formerly known as Matt Lowe’s Cay in Abaco.  The resort will include 50 all-suite accommodations, along with a 47-slip marina […]


The Climate for Caribbean Home Financing

More airlines are expanding their flights to Antigua and Barbuda for the winter as demand for the destination continues to rise, officials said this week.  Air Canada made its return to Antigua this weekend, while more United States and United Kingdom-based carriers are adding flights this winter, too.  That includes American Airlines, which will be […]

Los Cabos Gets Two New Routes from Canada

By the Caribbean Journal staff The bustling Mexican tourism hotspot of Los Cabos is getting a lift this season from Canadian carrier Sunwing, which recently launched two new routes to the destination. Sunwing has launched its first-ever flights to Los Cabos from both Ottawa and Kelowna in British Columbia. The new weekly service from Kelowna […]

Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman Real Estate Sales Top $100 Million

Sales of the Grand Hyatt Grand Cayman Residences project are surging, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The new project on Seven Mile Beach has sold more than 49 condominiums, bringing the sales total to more than $100 million, according to real estate firm Waypoint Real Estate. That means more than 60 percent of all units have […]

St Kitts Launches New Coral Reef Monitoring Program

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor St Kitts has launched an important new program to study the state of coral reefs. The St Kitts Department of Environment, in collaboration with the Department of Marine Resources, has installed a Coral Reef Early Warning Systems at the island’s Paradise Reef. The initiative aims to better understand what is […]

The Caribbean Travel Holiday Gift Guide 2017

If you subscribe to Caribbean Journal, you love traveling to the Caribbean. And so do your friends and family. So what do you get for your fellow Caribbean travel aficionados? We have you covered with the 2018 edition of the Caribbean Journal holiday gift guide, from must-have travel gadgets to the height of Caribbean style. […]

Barbuda Is Looking to Go 100 Percent Green

The Eastern Caribbean island of Barbuda is looking to become a 100 percent green energy island. That’s the plan behind the proposed Green Barbuda Energy project, which, if approved, would be supported by a regional grant from the government of the United Arab Emirates. The project aims to move Barbuda away from fossil fuels and […]

The Best SPF Shirt You Can Buy

It all started on Tortola’s Cane Garden Bay, with Andy Morrell and Fran Samuels’ journey that turned from pure exploration to building a truly authentic Caribbean clothing brand. Today, British Virgin Islands-based HIHO is an in-the-know product for Caribbean aficionados (see: Caribbean Journal readers), a maker of clothing that’s all about the kind of tropical […]

A New Way to Move to Cabo

There’s a new luxury hideaway in the heart of Cabo: 1 Hotel & Homes Cabo, set on the 22-acre private residential community called Hacienda. The project is a limited offering of 55 branded luxury “1 Homes,” the first international residences from the brand. The residences range from one to seven bedrooms, including a collection of […]