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St Louis Cardinals Outfielder Killed in Dominican Republic Car Crash

Above: Oscar Taveras By the Caribbean Journal staff St Louis Cardinals outfielder Oscar Taveras was killed on Sunday in a car accident in the Dominican Republic. Taveras, a 22-year-old native of Puerto Plata who had been considered a rising star […]

First Ladies of Haiti, Dominican Republic Meet in New York

Above: the First Ladies’ meeting in New York (Photo: DICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The First Ladies of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic held a meeting this week in New York in the context of the United Nations […]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Visits Haiti, Dominican Republic

Above: United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (UN Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon begins a visit to Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Monday, the world body announced. Ban is set to meet […]

Haiti, Dominican Republic Set to Resume Talks in Juan Dolio

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe and Dominican Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo earlier this year (Photo: DICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and the Dominican Republic will resume their planned bilateral dialogue in a meeting on Thursday […]

Dominican Republic President, Edrington CEO Hold Talks

Above: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina and Edrington CEO Ian Curle By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina met this week with Ian Curle, Chief Executive Officer of Scotland’s The Edrington Group. Edrington owns approximately 60 percent […]

Dominican Republic President Meets With Pope Francis

Above: Pope Francis and Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina (Photo: OP Dominican Republic) By the Caribbean Journal staff Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina met Friday with Pope Francis at the Vatican. The 29-minute meeting included talks about the government’s social […]

Dominican Republic, Turkey Sign Cooperation Agreements

Above: Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina By the Caribbean Journal staff The Dominican Republic and Turkey have signed agreements on economic and civil aviation cooperation. The agreements were signed by Dominican Republic President Danilo […]

Medina: “We Do Not Accept” Threats to Dominican Republic’s Sovereignty

Above: Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina By the Caribbean Journal staff In a speech to the CELAC summit in Havana Wednesday, Dominican Republic addressed the ongoing controversy over the country’s high-profile immigration ruling. Medina said he was responding to statements […]

US Virgin Islands Unveils First-Ever Tsunami Evacuation Maps

Above: the USVI By the Caribbean Journal staff As last week’s earthquake in Puerto Rico reminded, the Caribbean is a seismically active region — and particularly the northern Caribbean. That’s led the US Virgin Islands to debut its first-ever tsunami […]

Haiti, Dominican Republic Hold High-Level Talks in Ouanaminthe

Above: Dominican Republic Minister of the Presidency Gustavo Montalvo and Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe (Photo: DICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti and the Dominican Republic held high-level bilateral talks in the northeastern Haitian city of Ouanaminthe on Tuesday. […]

Haiti’s Lamothe to Lead Commission For Talks With Dominican Republic

Above: Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe will lead a five-member commission for high-level talks with the Dominican Republic that begin Tuesday, the government announced. The two countries are set to […]

Seaborne Airlines Launching Service to the Dominican Republic

Above: a Seaborne Plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Seaborne Airlines is launching service to the Dominican Republic, the company announced Wednesday. The St Croix-based carrier will be introducing service from San Juan to La Romana International Airport in the […]

CARICOM “Concerned” Over Citizenship Ruling in Dominican Republic

Above: the CARICOM Secretariat in Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Community issued a statement Thursday expressing concern over the recent citizenship ruling in the Dominican Republic that could leave hundreds of thousands of Dominicans of Haitian descent […]

Haiti, Dominican Republic Plan Increased Business Dialogue

Above: Port-au-Prince By the Caribbean Journal staff Following up on a dialogue that started in Miami last month, private sector representatives from Haiti and the Dominican Republic are planning to deepen their conversations. Both sides agreed to transform their bilateral […]

United Kingdom to Establish First Embassy in Haiti Since 1966

Above: British Foreign Secretary William Hague (Photo: FCO) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti will soon be home to the first United Kingdom diplomatic representation in Haiti since 1966, according to UK Foreign Secretary William Hague. The new British Embassy […]

Turks and Caicos Attorney General Obtains First Civil Recovery Order

Above: downtown Grand Turk By the Caribbean Journal staff The government of Turks and Caicos has obtained the first civil recovery order under the provisions of the Proceeds of Crime Ordinance 2007, Attorney General Huw Shepheard announced today. The order […]

Caribbean Joint Action Plan Commits $960 Million in First Year

The European Investment Bank By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Joint Action Plan, a collaboration between six leading development banks aimed at bringing the Caribbean out of the downturn, has totaled more than $960 million in commitments to private […]

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 […]

Cayman Premier: “I Have Done Nothing Wrong and I Shall Not Be Resigning”

Above: Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush By Alexander Britell Cayman Premier McKeeva Bush has issued his first public statement since his arrest Tuesday on suspicions of corruption, maintaining his innocence and vowing not to yield to increasing public pressure to step […]

Caribbean Carrier Cape Air Kicks Off New St Thomas-Nevis Route

Top regional carrier Cape Air has officially launched its newest route in the Caribbean: regular service between St Thomas and Nevis. The new service is a major new link for Nevis, which typically receives most of its visitors via ferry […]

Mexico’s RCD Hotels Is Expanding to Jamaica

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Grenada’s Kawana Bay Resort Project Is On Hold

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Curaçao Baseball Is Joining the Caribbean Series

The Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has produced some outstanding Major League Baseball players in the last few decades, from Andruw Jones to Didi Gregorius to Ozzie Albies. And now the island is taking a major new step, with the […]

Visiting Jamaica Just Got Even Easier

It’s easier than ever to visit the island of Jamaica, Caribbean Journal has learned. Beginning March 1, 2022, Jamaica will no longer require visitors to complete a Travel Authorization form. It’s “one less hurdle for travelers to Jamaica” the Jamaica […]

Deal to Purchase Bahamas’ Grand Lucayan Resort Won’t Go Forward

The deal by a joint venture between Royal Caribbean and ITM Group to purchase Grand Bahama’s Grand Lucayan resort won’t go forward. In a statement, Bahamas Port Investments, Royal Caribbean’s join venture with ITM, announced that it had mutually agreed […]

The Caribbean Travel Awards 2022

It seems that every year in the Caribbean we say it’s been a year like no other — but in the age of the pandemic, that’s a guarantee. And if 2020 was defined by the ongoing question of the tourism […]

The Caribbean’s Newest Relais & Chateaux Resort Is in Turks and Caicos

The newest Relais & Chateaux resort in the Caribbean is in Turks and Caicos. The Meridian Club Pine Cay, long one of the region’s top private-island resorts, has officially joined the culinary-focused hotel collection. The 21-key hotel has 13 residences […]

A New Way to Fly to Abaco in The Bahamas