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St Croix’s Must-Visit Food Festival Is Back

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Turks and Caicos Has a Roaring Real Estate Market

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The real estate market in Turks and Caicos is seeing record-breaking performance, according to the newest report from Turks and Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty.  Indeed, Turks and Caicos real estate hit a record $334.7 million in sales volume in 2019, according to the report, itself an increase of almost $76 million compared to 2018.  The […]

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St Kitts and Nevis Keeps Up Sizzling Tourism Growth

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St Kitts and Nevis continues to see sizzling tourism growth, according to the latest numbers from the twin-island federation.  St Kitts’ Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport reported 163,453 passengers in 2019, a very strong 7 percent improvement compared to the previous year.  The news comes as St Kitts saw a record-breaking total of more than […]

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JetBlue Is Launching Service to Guatemala

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JetBlue is expanding in the Caribbean Basin again.  The New York City-based carrier has announced plans to launch its first-ever service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Guatemala City.  The new flights will operate daily beginning June 1, according to the company.  “With new destinations on tap for 2020, more flights in […]

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The Cool List: The Coolest Caribbean Hotels for 2020

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The Caribbean’s roster of high-design, forward-thinking, fun-loving hotels continues to grow.  Everyone has a different definition of what’s cool — particularly when it comes to hotels.  But a cool hotel should have an x-factor, a special quality that turns it into something more than just a collection of rooms — whether that’s from the way it […]

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New Royal Caribbean Ship Coming to Caribbean in November

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Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship will make its debut in the Caribbean in November.  The new Odyssey of the Seas will launch in the Mediterranean this summer before heading to Fort Lauderdale for its first Caribbean sailings in November.  Odyssey of the Seas will be the first of its class, Quantum Ultra Class, to cruise […]


JetBlue Is Launching Service to Guatemala

Royal Caribbean’s newest cruise ship will make its debut in the Caribbean in November.  The new Odyssey of the Seas will launch in the Mediterranean this summer before heading to Fort Lauderdale for its first Caribbean sailings in November.  Odyssey of the Seas will be the first of its class, Quantum Ultra Class, to cruise […]

Punta Cana Is Getting a New Casino Resort

A new casino resort destination is coming to Punta Cana, the most popular tourism destination in the Dominican Republic.  Serenade Caribbean Hotels has announced plans to open a 603-room all-inclusive casino resort (yes, there will be swim-out rooms as an option) on Punta Cana’s Playa Cabeza de Toro, with a targeted opening date in June […]

Belize Has Quietly Become a Caribbean Hotspot

Long a well-kept secret for travelers in the know, Belize has quietly become a full-fledged Caribbean hotspot in recent years, buoyed by one of the region’s fastest rates of tourism growth.  And now it’s borne out by the data — Belize just set a new all-time record for tourism arrivals to the destination, Caribbean Journal has […]

How to Make Paella, Caribbean Style

So much of the seafood we eat today is farm raised on crappy diets with all kinds of additives, hormones antibiotics etc. that when I saw some wild shrimp from the ocean along with some octopus from Spain available, I grabbed them up and decided to make a ginormous pot of Caribbean rice.  I guess […]