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The Best Caribbean Islands For Island Hopping

You can have a wonderful time anywhere in the Caribbean. But for the more adventurous, why not try some good old-fashioned island hopping? Use one island as a base and try out one, two, three or more islands all within […]

Air France, Caribbean Carrier Winair Sign Codeshare Agreement

Above: a Winair flight By the Caribbean Journal staff Air France has signed a codesharing agreement with Caribbean regional carrier Winair. The codeshare will cover five routes out of St Maarten: Saba, St Barth, St Eustatius, St Kitts and Nevis […]

Seven Small Caribbean Islands You Should Visit This Summer

There are small Caribbean islands and there are small Caribbean islands. The latter are the places with that extra degree of tranquility (for a region that has some of the most tranquil places in the world as it is). They […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: Quite a View in St Barth

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Burt Spielman, who sent in this photo of Petit Cul-de-Sac in St Barth, with the view of St Maarten and Anguilla in the distance. Do you have a great photo of […]

Strong Earthquake Shakes Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic

Above: a map of the quake (graphic: United States Geological Survey) By the Caribbean Journal staff The recent string of strong earthquakes in the Caribbean is continuing. The latest was a 5.8-magnitude quake in the Mona Passage between Puerto Rico […]

Ranking the Caribbean on Cell Phone Use

Above: Grand Cayman (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Where do people use cell phones the most in the Caribbean? To find out, we looked at the most recent edition of the World Bank’s World Development Indicators report, which […]

Montserrat Hosting Meeting of British, European Overseas Territories

Above: Montserrat By the Caribbean Journal staff Montserrat is hosting a meeting this week of several political leaders from the British and European Overseas Territories. Montserrat Premier Reuben Meade is chairing the meeting, which will take place on Thursday and […]

First Dutch Ambassador to CARICOM

Above: Dutch Ambassador Lucita MoenirAlam and CARICOM SG Irwin LaRocque (Photo: CARICOM) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Netherlands has named its first-ever Ambassador to the Caribbean Community. This week, Ambassador Lucita MoenirAlam presented her credentials to CARICOM Secretary General […]

12 Solar-Powered Caribbean Hotels

IT’S THE Caribbean’s most abundant resource, and it’s powering a number of the region’s hotels: the sun. From hot water heaters to large-scale solar arrays, the Caribbean has an increasing number of solar-powered hotels. To continue our Earth Week coverage, […]

Seaborne Airlines Begins Service From San Juan to Santo Domingo

Above: a Seaborne Airlines plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico-based Seaborne Airlines has officially launched service between the cities of San Juan, Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. The new service began operations on April […]

The Best Caribbean Hotels For Meetings

You’re planning a major conference. Or a business getaway. Or a small forum for company executives. Well, the Caribbean is the perfect place — with scores of hotels with top-level meeting space and all the perks you want during downtime — […]

The Most Romantic Caribbean Islands

The Caribbean is the most romantic region in the world. The climate, the beaches, enchanting hotels and world class restaurants all play their parts, but there is something more. Romance is naturally subjective, but there are factors that make some […]

The Best Caribbean Airports — 2014

What makes a good airport? These days, air travel is rarely easy, so when we get to the airport there are few factors that really determine the quality of the experience. Most importantly, it needs to be clean, it needs […]

BVI Airways Sold to New York Bank, Names New President and CEO

Above: the British Virgin Islands By the Caribbean Journal staff Regional air carrier BVI Airways has been sold to an undisclosed New York-based merchant bank, the company announced Thursday. The company has also named longtime aviation executive Jerry Willoughby its […]

Grenada Ministry of Health Forms Task Force on Chikungunya, Dengue

Above: Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff The virus has not come to Grenada, but Grenada’s Ministry of Health has formed a new mult-stakeholder task force on the health threats posed by the Chikungunya and dengue viruses in the Caribbean. […]

The Caribbean’s Best Hotels For Design

WHEN IT comes to the quality of a hotel, what’s under the surface counts — service, culture, food. But the way a hotel is thought out, the way it’s put together structurally and the way it simply looks, all make a […]

Martinique’s Serge Letchimy Attending CARICOM Conference

Above: Serge Letchimy, president of Martinique’s Regional Council (Photo: RM) By the Caribbean Journal staff Martinique Regional Council President Serge Letchimy will be on hand for this week’s 25th Intersessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the […]

Anguilla Reports 6.8 Percent Increase in Tourist Arrivals

Above: Anguilla (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Anguilla reported a 6.8 percent increases in tourism arrivals in 2013, according to data from the Anguilla Tourist Board. The island welcomed a total of 69,068 tourist stopover arrivals, up from […]

7 Caribbean Regattas For March and April

IT’S THAT time of year again. During March and April, the Caribbean plays host to some of the finest yachting events in the world. Each year, the top international circuit of sailing comes to the region, and the best events […]

The Caribbean’s Best Mega Villas – 2014

THERE ARE villas and there are villas. These are the latter. We call them mega villas — the large properties with at least six bedrooms that aren’t just vacation homes —they’re vacation estates. These are properties of a different level, […]

New Winair Flights Link Copa Airlines to British Virgin Islands

Above: a WinAir plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Regional air carrier Winair is adding new round-trip connections for passengers traveling from St Maarten to the British Virgin Islands on Panamanian airline Copa. The flights will provide roundtrip connections to […]

6.5M Earthquake Shakes Eastern Caribbean, From Martinique to Grenada

Above: a map of the quake (graphic: United States Geological Survey) By the Caribbean Journal staff Above: a map of the quake (graphic: United States Geological Survey) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 6.5-magnitude earthquake northeast of Barbados caused shaking […]

Haiti’s Sunrise Airways, BVI Airways Sign Operations Agreement

Above: a Sunrise Airways plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Sunrise Airways is continuing its regional expansion. The Port-au-Prince-based carrier announced that it had signed a Subservice Flight Agreement with Tortola-based BVI Airways, meaning it will operate BVI Airways […]

Are Caribbean Travelers Thinking Dutch?

Above: Bonaire (CJ Photo) MIAMI — By Alexander Britell Are travelers to the Caribbean thinking Dutch? While Caribbean tourism arrivals grew 1.8 percent in 2013, it was the Dutch Caribbean that led the way, significantly outperforming its regional neighbours, according […]

The Caribbean’s Best Streets

Sure, the Caribbean has great beaches. But it’s so much more than that. And that’s nowhere more apparent than on the many boulevards, avenues and streets in the Caribbean, where you can spend entire days just hopping from restaurant to […]

The Caribbean’s Best Sports Bars

It’s Super Bowl weekend, meaning that you need somewhere to watch the big game in the Caribbean. You’ll need a proper sports bar, one with the special qualities required for a game of this magnitude. We’re not talking simply about […]

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 […]

Copa Airlines Launching Guyana Service

Above: a Boeing Next Generation plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Panama-based Copa Airlines will be launching service to Guyana, the carrier announced this week. The airline will begin twice-weekly flights between Panama City and Georgetown beginning July 11, it […]

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