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The Caribbean’s Best Airport Lounges
Traveling can be stressful. And even when you’re returning from a likely very relaxing vacation to the Caribbean, you still want comfort, style and convenience — all the way to the gate at the airport. And you can find it […]
WINAIR Relaunches Tortola Service
Above: a WINAIR plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Regional air carrier WINAIR is relaunching service to the British Virgin Islands. WINAIR, Windward Islands Airways International, began double daily service between Beef Island and St Maarten on Sunday. The company […]
LIAT Flights Disrupted As Pilots Strike
Above: a LIAT plane By the Caribbean Journal staff A strike by LIAT pilots led to the cancellation of at least nine LIAT routes on Tuesday, the company said. Later on Tuesday, the company said it had held discussions with […]
Working to Build “The New LIAT”
Above: a new LIAT ATR-72 By the Caribbean Journal staff LIAT’s new Acting CEO Julie Reifer-Jones made her first public statement this week with a letter to staff vowing to build a “new LIAT.” “At the new LIAT, we are […]
Martinique Eyes 1 Million Visitors By 2020
Above: Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille By Alexander Britell It’s now been a year since Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille addressed the media at the CTO’s State of the Industry Conference in St Kitts. At the time, she was a […]
Caribbean Idea: Should Virgin Buy LIAT?
CARIBBEAN air carrier LIAT’s recent struggles have been widely publicized. It’s even been suggested that the company merge with another regional carrier, Caribbean Airlines. Some have even said that Venezuela could throw its hat in the ring. (There are 11 […]
LIAT Accepts Ian Brunton’s Resignation, Names Acting CEO
Above: a LIAT plane By the Caribbean Journal staff The Board of Directors of regional air carrier LIAT has accepted the resignation of Chief Executive Officer Ian Brunton and named an interim replacement, it announced Wednesday. Brunton’s resignation will take […]
JetBlue Expanding to Trinidad
Above: JetBlue planes By the Caribbean Journal staff JetBlue isn’t done with its Caribbean expansion. The New York City-based carrier will be launching flights to Trinidad beginning in July 2014, according to Trinidad’s government. The news, rumoured for several months, […]
LIAT, Caribbean Premier League in Row Over Service
By the Caribbean Journal staff After the founder of the Caribbean Premier League said regional carrier LIAT cost the league “millions of dollars,” LIAT is now firing back. CPL Founder Ajmal Khan told the Barbados Sun that LIAT’s service was […]
Haiti’s Sunrise Airways Opens New Facility in Dominican Republic
Above: a Sunrise Airways plane By the Caribbean Journal staff New Haitian air carrier Sunrise Airways has opened a new maintenance facility in the Dominican Republic, making it the first airline from Haiti to have its own in-house maintenance capabilities. […]
CARICOM is 40, But Who is Celebrating?
By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is celebrating 40 years of existence. But who is really celebrating? Certainly not the masses of Caribbean peoples, plagued with high levels of unemployment, crime, debt and anxiety about the future. […]
Should Caribbean Governments Take a New Approach on Air Taxes?
Above: Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell (UN Photo/Mark Garten) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is calling for a “broader task force” to address problems of regional transport in the Caribbean, including the taxation of […]
St Kitts Sees Increase in Air Arrivals
Above: downtown Basseterre (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis’ Robert L Bradshaw International Airport saw an 11.07 percent increase in arrivals in May, according to the St Christopher Air and Sea Ports Authority. A total […]
Is Trinidad the Capital of the Caribbean?
By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor On Tuesday, United States Vice President Joe Biden met with CARICOM leaders in Port of Spain as part of a regional tour with scheduled stops in Colombia and Brazil. Perhaps even more intriguing is […]
Vanderpool-Wallace: The Missing Link For Tourism in the Caribbean
By Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace CJ Contributor TOURISM MINISTERS and Commissioners and their counterparts in the private sector in the Caribbean have come to see that the region’s tourism industry is vastly underperforming compared to the potential that they see. Hotel occupancies […]
Haiti, Delta Talk Travel Packages
Above: Delta’s Cedric Chauvet and Haiti’s Stephanie Villedrouin (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and Delta Airlines held talks on Friday on the possibility of establishing a vacation package to Haiti including Delta’s Atlanta and New York […]
JetBlue and the Caribbean: An Interview With Chad Meyerson
By Alexander Britell With American Eagle’s departure from the Caribbean, there will be a sizable void to fill. As we’ve covered of late, small carriers like Cape Air are increasing capacity and looking to capitalize on the ever-present demand for […]
CHTA President Richard Doumeng Talks Caribbean Travel
Above: the Bolongo Bay Resort in St Thomas By Alexander Britell On Thursday, the long-awaited redesign of caribbeantravel.com officially launched. The new site, viewed as a new kind of portal for the Caribbean travel market, comes as the region faces […]
Interview with Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille
Above: Martinique Tourism Commissioner Karine Roy-Camille at CHTA Travel Marketplace in the Bahamas (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PARADISE ISLAND — Like fellow French department Guadeloupe, Martinique has maintained a relatively low profile for travelers in markets like the US […]
Caribbean Tourism Organization’s Aviation Committee Holds First Meeting
Above: a LIAT plane in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Tourism Organization will be leading a mission in 2013 to meet with top ministerial officials and technical personnel in the region to find ways to improve intra-regional […]
Caribbean Tourism Organization Names New Aviation Committee
Above: a British Airways plane (Photo: British Airways) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Tourism Organization has announced what it is calling a “highly-focused” CTO Aviation Committee aimed at facilitating air transportation into and throughout the Caribbean region. The […]
LIAT Names New Chief Executive Officer
By the Caribbean Journal staff LIAT’s Board of Directors has appointed Captain Ian Arthur Brunton as the air carrier’s new Chief Executive Officer. The decision took effect Aug. 1. Brunton, who began his career as a pilot in the Royal […]
Air Carrier REDjet Suspends Service
By the Caribbean Journal staff Caribbean air carrier REDjet, which initially experienced difficulty in obtaining authorization to fly into several regional countries, has suspended its service. “Unlike the heavily subsidised airlines that serve the region, REDjet does not receive any […]
St Lucia: No Agreeement on LIAT Stake
By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government has not agreed to a proposal or deal involving the purchase of shares in regional air carrier LIAT, it announced yesterday. The airline does play an important role in the region and […]
The Caribbean Year in Review
For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have chosen new leadership, with Jamaicans headed to the polls on Thursday. It […]
Interview with Dr Keith Nurse: What Climate Change Means for Caribbean Tourism
By Alexander Britell The Caribbean is continually looking for ways to emerge from the downturn. And with an economy largely dependent on tourism, a changing world economy – and a changing world climate — pose new problems for the region. […]
Interview with Jamaican Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett
By Alexander Britell As the Caribbean’s integral tourism industry has been hurt by the global financial downturn, countries in the region have been forced to looked to new markets and devise new initiatives to spur both new visitors and new […]
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