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St Maarten Cruise Port Planning Improvements

By the Caribbean Journal staff Port St Maarten is planning a series of improvement projects, officials announced this week. The new investments are part of a “primary focus of getting additional business in 2020 and beyond,” according to a statement. […]

Making Caribbean Tourism Sustainable — And What It Means

By Julie Bielenberg CJ Contributor ST VINCENT – It was perhaps fitting that the Caribbean Conference on Sustainable Tourism was delayed by a storm. What was then-Tropical Storm Dorian delayed the beginning of the recent Caribbean Tourism Organization’s 2019 sustainability […]

St Thomas: USVI Plans $230 Million Airport Modernization Project

By Dana Niland and Alexander Britell The Cyril E. King Airport in St Thomas will soon begin a major transformation project. The plan, revealed by the Virgin Islands Port Authority this week, is estimated to cost around $230 million. “We’re […]

Royal Caribbean Buys Stake in Silversea Cruises for $1 Billion

By the Caribbean Journal staff Royal Caribbean Cruises has announced the acquisition of a significant stake in ultra-luxe small-ship cruise line Silversea Cruises. The agreement includes the acquisition of a two-thirds equity stake in Silversea based on an enterprise value […]

American Airlines Launches Bonaire Flights, Plans Expansion

By Alexander Britell American Airlines officially launches its first-ever flights to Bonaire this weekend, with plans for more. The carrier will also be adding flights on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Dec. 15 through March 30, 2019. That’s along with […]

Latest Antigua Tourism Update After Irma

While the island of Barbuda was devastated, neighboring Antigua escaped a severe impact from Hurricane Irma. Electricity is being restored to the island’s capital, St John’s and most parts of the island, with VC Bird International Airport opening last Thursday. […]

PSP, ASUR Acquire 50 Percent Stake in San Juan Airport Operator

Canadian pension investment manager PSP Investments and Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste have acquired a combined 50 percent interest in Aerostar Airport Holdings LLC, which manages the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Aerostar has operated the […]

American Airlines Cutting New York-San Juan Flights

American Airlines is cutting one of its signature Caribbean routes. The carrier has announced that it will be cancelling its two daily nonstop flights from New York – John F. Kennedy to San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Luis Munoz Marin International […]

Crystal Cruises Adding New Caribbean Stop

The island of Nevis will welcome Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises’ guests starting this November. Luxury yacht Crystal Esprit will call on the island during its 14-day sailings for the next two years, according to the Nevis Tourism Board. “Nevis looks […]

How Caribbean Networks Are Upgrading

By GERARD BEST Forward-thinking network operators in Latin America and the Caribbean are using the Internet’s next-generation protocol, called IPv6, to gain a business edge over their competitors. The upside for customers is better quality of service, and in the […]

What’s Next for the Caribbean Hotel Market?

Looking ahead at the region’s hotel and resort sector. By Fleur Vagniez Op-Ed Contributor Hotels and Resorts across the Caribbean have experienced unprecedented growth over the last 6 years with ADR and occupancy rates outperforming those at the previous top of the […]

Why You Should Move to the Caribbean, And One Way to Do it

When you think of paradise, what springs to mind? A hammock swaying among the palm trees, a white sandy beach beneath your toes and a glistening turquoise sea gently lapping at the shore, for starters. It’s no surprise, then, that the […]

A New $1.5 Billion Dominican Republic Resort Project: Puntarena

A new tourism hub in the Dominican Republic? By Alexander Britell CJ Editor in Chief A major new tourism development has launched in the southern region of the Dominican Republic. It’s called Puntarena, and the $1.5 billion project is the […]

Rethinking Disaster Aid in Haiti

It’s time for a new way to think about aid By Ilio Durandis CJ Contributor When disaster strikes all masks come off. Every little problem gets magnified 10 fold. This is exactly the situation in Haiti post-Hurricane Matthew. Immediately after […]

Atlantis Launching $20 Million Renovation of Coral Towers

Atlantis has big plans for Coral Towers By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Atlantis, Paradise Island has announced the 2017 launch of The Corals, a $20 million revamp of what is currently the Coral Towers, which first debuted in 1994. […]

In Puerto Rico, Creating Farms for Families

New program looks to spur agricultural development By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Governor Alejandro García Padilla presented the titles for 26 family farms to a group of farmers who, as part of an agreement with the government, will use the […]

JetBlue Launching New Route to Barbados

JetBlue Airways is continuing its expansion in Barbados. The New York City-based carrier has announced the launch of new weekly flights between Newark Liberty International Airport and Barbados’ Grantley Adams International Airport. The new flights will operate during the peak […]

The Caribbean Water Problem

Solving the Caribbean Water Problem By Keith White CJ Contributor As the drought within the Caribbean wears on, countries in the region face great risk, as their tourism-based economies rely heavily on clean, sustainable water sources – and that doesn’t […]

Jamaica’s Growth Agenda

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor Jamaica’s government has placed growth at the front of its priorities. Since political independence, in 1962, we have only seen growth of any significance in the period 1962 to 1972, and then about three years […]

China’s HNA Tourism to Buy Carlson Hotels

By the Caribbean Journal staff In a deal that will impact a number of hotels in the Caribbean, HNA Tourism Group has announced an agreement to buy Carlson Hotels Inc. Carlson Hotels owns hotel brands including Quorvus Collection, Radisson Blu, […]

Disaster Risk Reduction in the Caribbean

By George Nicholson and Nnyeka Prescod Op-Ed Contributors In the economic sphere an act, a habit, an institution or a law produces not only one effect, but a series of effects. Of these effects, the first alone is immediate; it […]

Why to Buy Jamaican

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor As Jamaica pursues our eternal search for economic development, one focus has been on the need for us to purchase local goods and services in preference to imports. The reasoning behind this seems logical, as it […]

Haiti’s Sunrise Airways Expands in Cuba

Sunrise Airways has expanded its service to Cuba with the launch of its first-ever flights to Camaguey, Cuba. The new route is the first to feature the carrier’s new 46-seat ATR 42-320 aircraft, which was added to the Sunrise fleet last week. “These new flights […]

Turks and Caicos, Dominican Republic Hold High-Level Talks

First major talks in years By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Turks and Caicos Governor Peter Beckingham met with Foreign Minister of the Dominican Republic, Andres Navarro in Santo Domingo last week in the first high level talks between the two […]

Op-Ed: Caribbean Climate Change: What’s Next?

By George Nicholson and Nnyeka Prescod Op-Ed Contributors There is rising anxiety amongst island nations as the effects of the continuous warming of the earth become more evident on our physical environment. The negative impacts arising from changes in weather […]

Copa Launches Belize Flights

Panama-based air carrier Copa Airlines has officially begun service between Panama and Belize. The airline’s first flight from Panama to Belize arrived on Tuesday carrying 92 passengers. Belize becomes Copa’s seventh destination in Central America. “For COPA Airlines this is […]

Barack Obama Visits Jamaica, Urges Caribbean on Green Energy

Above: US President Barack Obama in Jamaica By the Caribbean Journal staff United States President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit Jamaica in more than 33 years with a visit to Jamaica this week. Obama arrived on […]

Nevis Airport Sees Rise in Traffic

Above: a Tradewind plane at Nevis airport By the Caribbean Journal staf Nevis’ Vance Amory International Airport saw a 6.9 percent increase in traffic in 2014, compared to the same period in 2013, according to newly-released data from the Ministry […]

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