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Jamaica Tourism Surging So Far in 2018
By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Jamaica is reporting a big increase in visitor arrivals to the island for the first two months of the year. The announcement came from Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett at a cocktail reception at the […]
A Strong Cruise Season So Far for St Kitts
By the Caribbean Journal staff Things are looking strong for St Kitts’ Port Zante so far this season, according to tourism officials. Four inaugural ship calls will be made to Basseterre’s cruise port later this month and in early December, […]
How Many Tourists Have Visited The Caribbean So Far This Year
By Alexander Britell How many people are visiting the Caribbean this year? For the first half of 2015, the region welcomed 14.8 million tourist arrivals, a 5.8 percent improvement over the same period in 2014, according to data from the […]
St Lucia Tourism Off to Strong Start So Far in 2015
Above: St Lucia (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s tourism sector is off to a very strong start in 2015, according to the government. The destination saw a 14 percent improvement in arrivals in January, with a […]
How AMResorts Is Faring Amid the Pandemic
By Joe Pike, Special Contributor Caribbean Journal Invest (CJI) was on hand Thursday for the official reopening of Secrets Royal Beach Punta Cana, where we sat down with Luis Nunez, regional commercial director of the Dominican Republic for AMResorts, to […]
Saint Lucia Has a New Solar Farm
By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Saint Lucia Prime Minister Allen Chastanet, former President Figueres of Costa Rica and the Rocky Mountain Institute have officially opened a major new three-megawatt solar farm in Saint Lucia. The […]
Richard Branson-Owned Energy Company Buys St Croix Solar Farm
By the Caribbean Journal staff BMR Energy, which was purchased by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group in 2016, has purchased a major solar farm in the Caribbean. The St Croix facility, which was owned by NRG Energy, was damaged during […]
10 Caribbean Farm-to-Table Resorts
By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Sure, good hotel cuisine requires an experienced and inventive chef. But at the end of the day, it’s the raw ingredients that really make the meal. And when those ingredients come fresh from the […]
How Southwest Airlines Fared in January
Southwest Airlines traffic continued to climb in January, according to the carrier’s latest monthly data report. The company flew 9.4 billion revenue passenger miles in January, up 4.6 percent from the 8.9 billion revenue passenger miles Southwest flew in January […]
A New Solar Farm Is Coming to Guyana
A new solar farm is coming to a far corner of the Caribbean region. Guyana’s Mabaruma region will soon be getting the area’s first-ever solar farm, at an investment cost of around $1.29 million USD. The installation, which will take place […]
A New Solar Farm in St Kitts
By Dana Niland CJ Contributor St. Kitts and Nevis continued its renewable energy push with the presentation of a new 500 kilowatt solar farm to St. Kitts Electricity Company this week. St Kitts already has a solar farm at its […]
St Kitts Breaks Ground on Another New Solar Farm
Above: the first panels at the farm in St Kitts By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has broken ground on another new solar farm on the island. The country is already home to a solar farm at […]
St Kitts to Build Two More Solar Farms
Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis is planning to build two more solar farms, according to Cartwright Farrell, CEO of the St Kitts Electricity Corporation. The two would follow the country’s existing […]
Nevis to Partner With US Company on Waste-to-Energy Plant, Solar Farm
Above: Nevis (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Nevis’s government is planning to partner with United States-based company Omni-Alpha, LLC on the development of a waste-to-energy plant. The move was announced by the Ministry of Health in the Nevis […]
How Caribbean Skiers Fared in Sochi
Above: St John’s Jasmine Campbell at Sochi By the Caribbean Journal staff The Jamaican bobsleigh team received much of the publicity, but a number of skiers representing Caribbean nations made their mark at the Sochi Olympics. So how did they […]
St Kitts and Nevis Completes Construction of Airport Solar Farm
Above: Robert L Bradshaw International Airport (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis has officially completed construction on a 1-megawatt solar farm at the country’s Robert L Bradshaw International Airport. The solar farm will officially launch […]
Construction Set to Begin on Solar Farm at St Kitts Airport
Above: Taiwan Ambassador to St Kitts Miguel Tsao (Photo: SKNIS) By the Caribbean Journal staff Construction is set to begin of a solar farm at Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw International Airport in St Kitts. The project is a collaboration between St […]
St Kitts Talking to Taiwanese Firm About Airport Solar Farm Project
Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Talks are continuing with a Taiwanese firm for the construction of a one-megawatt solar farm at St Kitts’ Robert L Bradshaw International Airport, according to Energy Minister Dr Earl Asim […]
Taiwan, St Kitts Planning Solar Farm
Above: solar lights installed in St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan and St Kitts and Nevis are planning to establish a solar farm in the twin-island federation, Taiwanese Ambassador to St Kitts and Nevis Miguel Tsao […]
Curacao’s Jurickson Profar, Just 19, Hits Home Run in First Major League At-Bat
Above: Curacao’s Jurickson Profar (Photo: Texas Rangers) By the Caribbean Journal staff Curacao’s Jurickson Profar, a 19-year-old infielder for the Texas Rangers in Major League Baseball, hit a home run in his first-ever at-bat Sunday. Profar, a top prospect for […]
Solamon Plans to Build Largest Caribbean Solar Farm in Jamaica
By the Caribbean Journal staff The Canada-based Solamon company announced its plan to build the largest solar power plant in the Caribbean in Jamaica, at an estimated cost of $450 million. The programme aims to improve the country’s energy infrastructure […]
Interview with Four Seasons’ Andrew Humphries on Farm-to-Table, Nevis and Italian Tourists
Above: the Four Seasons Nevis Resort (Photo: Caribbean Journal) By Alexander Britell Four Seasons Caribbean Regional Vice President Andrew Humphries has overseen the $120 million reconstruction and renovation of the Four Seasons Nevis Resort, where he is the General Manager. […]
Turks and Caicos’ Newest Resort Is Opening in November, With Its Own Private Lagoon
Maybe you know Grace Bay Beach: that impossibly white sand, the satin-turquoise water. It’s a destination that has always been beloved in the Caribbean, only more so since the pandemic. But Turks and Caicos’ island of Providenciales is far more […]
The Cayman Islands’ Seven Mile Beach Has a Brand-New Resort
A rooftop lounge. A unique food-hall concept. Copious local art. The Cayman Islands has a brand new hotel that just opened its doors this week. But the biggest amenity is still Seven Mile Beach, famous for its impossibly white sand, […]
Southwest Airlines Is Starting New Flights to Turks and Caicos, Cayman and The Bahamas
Orlando has become an increasingly important source market for Caribbean travel in recent years, with carriers like Spirit and JetBlue adding new routes to the region to destinations like Cancun, Punta Cana and Puerto Rico. Now, another carrier has is […]
You Will Soon Be Able to Fly From Puerto Rico to Barbados
Is a new Caribbean intra-regional carrier quietly developing in San Juan? Ultra-low-cost carrier Frontier Airlines continues to add new routes within the Caribbean out of its new base in San Juan. That already includes St Croix, St Maarten and Cancun, […]
Six Senses Just Opened Its First-Ever Caribbean Resort on the Island of Grenada
The food is fresh from local farmers. When you arrive, you’re given a choice of local spices, which then find their way into tea bags — used to prepare your evening tea each night before bed. There is even an “earth […]
A Low-Key, Lovely Adults-Only Beach Resort in Aruba
When Aruba’s Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort opened in 1987, it made sense for the hotel’s restaurant to be built in the shape of a boat shipwrecked on the sand: while Eagle Beach didn’t exactly resemble a desert island back […]
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