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Here Are the Dominican Republic Hotels That Are Open Right Now

The Dominican Republic has more hotels currently open to international visitors than any other Caribbean destination, and there are more to come if all continues to go well with the country’s COVID-19 reopening. The Dominican Republic initially reopened to tourism […]

How (And Why) to Buy Turks and Caicos Real Estate Right Now

The pandemic has put a new emphasis on where we actually live — on the home itself and its physical location. And, if and when this happens, again — where we would be willing to spend months stuck inside our homes. […]

Staying at the Baha Mar in The Bahamas, Explained

Baha Mar, the luxury resort on Nassau’s fabled Cable Beach, was billions of dollars and almost a decade in the making — but well worth the wait. Interconnected hotels share amenities like the largest casino in the Caribbean, a huge […]

Seven Ways to Visit Saint Lucia

By Bob Curley CJ Contributor There’s a reason Saint Lucia is one of the hottest destinations in the Caribbean right now: a hard-to-match blend of romance, scenery, culinary sophistication and good, plain-old adventure. And the best way to experience the […]

Anguilla’s Malliouhana Is Reopening in December

By Alexander Britell It should be a very busy festive season in Anguilla this year. Another of Anguilla’s top resorts has announced its reopening plans, with the Malliouhana, Auberge Resorts Collection announcing a planned relaunch on Dec. 15. The iconic […]

The 12 Best Islands for Luxury Villas

In many ways, luxury villas are the ultimate Caribbean vacation experience. It’s far beyond — and very different — than spending your time in a resort. A villa means you aren’t just staying on an island — you’re living on an island, and in […]

The Best Jamaica Weddings

You’ve decided to get married? Congratulations! Now comes the really big decision: where to get married. Obviously, we’re big fans of island weddings, and if you’re considering a destination “I do” in Jamaica, here are the hotels we think you […]

Jamaica Needs a Serious Approach to Development

Time for a new approach for Jamaican Development By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor The current government has economic growth as its main thrust. The phrase coined by the Growth Council — “Five in four” — refers to the objective to […]

Haiti’s Constitutional Crisis

The constitution question By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor How should Haiti proceed as the mandate of the current president comes to term on Feb. 7th and with no president-elect to assume power? Is the answer in the Haitian constitution, political consensus, through […]

Countdown to the Vote for a Caribbean Media Mega-Merger

Set-Up for a Showdown By Dr Marcia Forbes CJ Contributor The excited anticipation of the vote-count felt somewhat like national general elections in Jamaica. Would media entities RJR/Gleaner win out in their thrust to merge by securing the 75% shareholder […]

Could the “Singapore Experience” Have Happened in Trinidad?

Above: Port of Spain (CJ Photo) By Paul Hay CJ Contributor Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first Prime Minister, died on 23 March 2015; and on 29 March 2015, the Straits Times published an article titled “The Singapore That Lee Kuan […]

John Kerry, Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe Hold Talks

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and US Secretary of State John Kerry (Photo: US Department of State) By the caribbean Journal staff United States Secretary of State John Kerry met with Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe in Washington this […]

Marcia Forbes: Understanding Jamaica’s Logistics Hub, Part 2

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Connecting Suppliers to Customers PROFESSOR Gordon Shirley, head honcho at the Port Authority of Jamaica, recently told us that the Jamaica Logistics Hub Initiative was designed to “leverage Jamaica’s strategic location to become an […]

Building Caribbean Data Journalism

By Gerard Best Op-Ed Contributor INTERNET USERS are bombarded daily with a vast world of digital content via news feeds, blogs, webcasts, live streams, image galleries, videoclips and sound bites. Access to huge information repositories is no longer restricted by […]

Should Caribbean Politicians Tweet?

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Politicians & Social Media Engagement THE QUESTION keeps coming back – social media and Jamaican politicians; do they know how to use these communication tools to their advantage? Recently, it seems that whenever there […]

“A New Haiti Emerges”

Above: Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe at the UN on Thursday (UN Photo/Sarah Fretwell) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti has seen its share of significant setbacks since the 2010 earthquake, but a new country is starting to emerge, Haiti Prime […]

The Caribbean’s Best Small Hotels – 2013

We continue our Best of the Caribbean series with a look at the small hotel properties that make the Caribbean tick — particularly those of 50 rooms or less. While the Caribbean has superb luxury resorts and all-inclusives, it has […]

Haiti’s Electoral Council President Holds Talks With OAS Secretary General

Above: the meeting in Bridgetown (OAS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Emmanuel Menard, the president of Haiti’s recently-formed Transitional College of the Permanent Electoral Council, held talks with OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza in Barbados last week. The […]

Durandis: On the Resignations in Haiti

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor OFTEN, WHEN ONE ASKS average Haitians, “how are things?” there is the simple answer of: “Nou la, n’ap kenbe,” we are here, we’re holding up. That might give the impression that all is well. But […]

Op-Ed: Why Venezuela Ought to Reconsider Its Withdrawal From ICSID

By Alexander G Leventhal Op-Ed Contributor IN JANUARY OF 2012, Venezuela announced that it would withdraw from the ICSID convention, a 1966 treaty that established an arbitration and conciliation institution based in Washington, DC to deal with international investment disputes. […]

Premier Rufus Ewing Warns of Potential for “Chaos” in Turks and Caicos

Above: the Karibe Convention Centre in Haiti (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT-AU-PRINCE — The current state of the affairs in the Turks and Caicos Islands has the potential to throw the territory “into chaos,” Premier Dr Rufus Ewing said […]

Durandis: The Closed Box in Haiti

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor SOMETIME IN THE 19TH CENTURY, in 1849 to be precise, long after Haiti’s independence from imperial France; there was an American slave, Henry “Box” Brown, who had himself mailed in a box to freedom. Henry […]

UK Minister for Overseas Territories to Visit Turks and Caicos Next Week

Above: UK Minister for the Overseas Territories Mark Simmonds (Photo: FCO) By the Caribbean Journal staff United Kingdom Minister for the Overseas Territories Mark Simmonds will be making his first ministerial visit to the Turks and Caicos Islands next week. […]

Op-Ed: Trade Unions in Modern Jamaica

Above: Kingston By Kent Gammon Op-Ed Contributor The trade union movement’s early days in Jamaica The trade unions of Jamaica came into prominence in the workers’ riots of 1938. At that time the workers were protesting the level of […]

Durandis: A Political Race Against the Clock in Haiti

By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor Common sense has left Haiti in the shadow of instability and incertitude. Immediately after the earthquake that ravaged the country, both physically and in terms of human capacity, many people were betting on hope that […]

Op-Ed: Belize’s Debt Payment

By Kay Menzies Op-Ed Contributor Certain realities are very much present in our daily economic life in Belize. For example, the population is, at this point, fully aware that we have a huge debt burden relative to our country’s size. […]

Cayman and the US Campaign: An Interview with Richard Coles

Above: Georgetown, Grand Cayman By Alexander Britell While places like Virginia and Florida will mean the most to the upcoming presidential election in the United States, another location has been popping up disproportionately during the campaign: the Cayman Islands. Since […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica, Trinidad and the Travails of the Caribbean Court of Justice

By Ramesh Sujanani Op-Ed Contributor There is a great mistrust among the peoples of CARICOM. The average Trinidadian does not trust the average Jamaican, nor do Jamaicans trust the Bajans, especially since the Myrie incident which is in court. I […]

A New Way to Fly to Abaco in The Bahamas