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The Best Caribbean All Inclusives for Food
By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you think staying at an all-inclusive resort means enduring endless uninspiring buffets, it must have been a while since you’ve stayed at one! Today’s generation of all inclusive resorts is leaving the old […]
Rum Journal: Cooper Island’s Remarkable Rum Bar
It’s the end of the afternoon, sky and water both silver, and there’s just one thing on the menu: rum. You stroll up the dock, past a smattering of barrels and enter what must be paradise on earth. Here, on […]
11 Caribbean Beach Bars You Should Visit Right Now
If there’s a more quintessentially Caribbean experience than having a rum at a Caribbean beach bar, we haven’t found it. Indeed, it’s the dream of toes-in-the-sand, rum-in-hand afternoons that bring so many travelers to the Caribbean year after year. And […]
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 […]
The 10 Best St Barts Hotels
It’s hip, it’s chic, it’s French and it’s Caribbean. The island of St Barts is the toniest place in the West Indies, but beneath the pomp and circumstance is a seriously substantive offering that makes it among the Caribbean’s greatest travel […]
Turks and Caicos All-Inclusive: How You Can Do It
Just a short hop away from Miami, the Turks and Caicos Islands archipelago is one of the region’s great vacation spots, thanks to world-class beaches like Grace Bay Beach, a seriously high level of service and terrific culinary offerings. But […]
The 50 Best Restaurants in the Caribbean – 2016
The Caribbean’s food scene continues to get better, with a renewed focus on honoring local styles and ingredients and a growing slate of world-class restaurants. And 2016 was an eventful year for the region’s restaurants, with several stellar debuts like St. Croix’s […]
The 25 Best All Inclusive Resorts in the Caribbean for 2017
The definition of “all inclusive resorts” has been changing. What used to mean endless buffet lines and mass-produced travel kitsch is rapidly becoming something very different, both in response to changing tastes and the arrival of new kinds of travelers. […]
The Best Caribbean Islands for Foodies
It’s not just a trend anymore — it’s a fact. More and more travelers are doing so with food as their major motivating factor. It’s convenient, that the Caribbean is one of the world’s great food destinations — even if […]
The 5 Best Dive Watches
If you’re heading underwater, there’s no reason you can do so in style. And finding the right wristwatch is a big part of that. But if you’re heading to the Caribbean Sea, you’re looking for a watch that’s sporty, lightweight […]
The Best Cigar Shop in Barbados
Tucked away in Barbados’ Limegrove Lifestyle Centre is a sanctuary. Inside a storefront on the second floor of this luxury shopping complex on the island’s famous Platinum Coast is La Casa del Habano. There are 146 of these shops around […]
The Caribbean’s Sexiest Islands
What makes a destination sexy? Is it the hotels, or the natural environment or even the people? It might be the beaches, or the bays, or the romantic sunsets, or even the aroma in the air. Every island in the Caribbean […]
This Caribbean Hotel Makes Its Own Limoncello — With Rum
One of the Caribbean’s more creative hotels has a special creation: house made limoncello. The brainchild of Cap Maison’s executive assistant manager for food and beverage Jasper Kok, the limoncello isn’t like any you’ve ever tasted – that’s because it’s […]
The Best Beaches You Can Stay on in the Caribbean
Think of your favorite beaches in the Caribbean, the show-stopping ones, like Prickly Pear or Sandy Spit in the British Virgin Islands, or Trunk Bay in St John. But what makes these beaches so spectacular is something of a flaw […]
The Best-Kept Secret in the Mexican Caribbean
Discovering the Grand Residences Riviera Cancun By Alexander Britell PUERTO MORELOS — There is a pillow menu. And not just a list — shortly after arriving in the room, you’re presented with a small tray of miniaturized pillows, firm to […]
This Is Your New Caribbean Shrimp Recipe
By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor As food trends evolve, chefs are constantly in a frenzy of motion and brainstorming to meet the sophisticated demands of consumers in search of new and unusual flavors. Sweet and savory combinations, which for many […]
VIDEO: Sunset on Grand Anse d’Arlet, Martinique
Martinique’s beach capital is this: Les Anses d’Arlet, a stretch of beaches with perfect white sand, calm water and stunning green hills. Oh, and some seriously good beach bars, like Ti Sable, set on the spectacular Grand Anse d’Arlet beach. […]
What Are Jamaica’s Development Goals?
By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor Last year I had set a goal to ride 7,500 miles on the bicycle, which I achieved. Discussing it with another cyclist, I was asked if that was my ultimate objective and if I would […]
Five Caribbean Luxury Resorts to Visit Right Now
By Alexander Britell Editor in Chief abritell@caribjournal.com There’s a rule I have. You know you’re in a truly great hotel from the moment you step inside the lobby (or sometimes even on the driveway approach). You know because you feel […]
The Newest Bar in Bimini
The newest Bar in Bimini has officially opened. And it’s already one of the island’s best. It’s called Sharkies Bar, and it’s the newest addition to the Bimini Big Game Club Resort and Marina. The beach-bar-style bar is set right […]
How to Create Prosperity in Jamaica
By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor In order to secure power (spillover from the colonial system), both political parties in Jamaica, when they formed government, set about creating institutional loyalties, using the state bodies and security forces to cement their hold […]
Winair Cleared for More Caribbean Expansion
Winair could soon have a new hub in the Caribbean. The regional airline has been officially granted “airline” designation by St Kitts and Nevis Aviation Minister Mark Brantley. That means the carrier is now allowed to originate and terminate flights […]
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 […]
VIDEO: On the Sea at the Hotel Bakoua in Martinique
One of the best hotels in Martinique, the Hotel Bakoua is also home to some seriously good bars, none more famous than its Coco Bar, a floating “bungalow” bar extending into the bay of Fort de France. Plainly, it’s a […]
VIDEO: 10 Seconds at Ti’ Sable Beach Bar in Martinique
It’s one of the great beach bars in the Caribbean: Ti’ Sable on Grand Anse D’Arlet in Martinique, home to some of some seriously relaxing beach oases. And if you can’t be there right now, don’t worry — CJ has […]
Thompson Playa del Carmen Is Now Open
A very cool new opening in Mexico By the Caribbean Journal staff A major addition to Playa del Carmen is now officially open. Thompson Playa del Carmen, the brand’s first Caribbean region hotel, debuted on the Riviera Maya this weekend. The […]
A Great Steakhouse in Curaçao
You might not see it. Hidden in Willemstad’s Riffort shopping mall, inside the walls of the old fort, is a staircase. And up the stairs you will find a special place. It’s called, simply, Steak and Ribs, but it’s one of […]
Why Tourism Matters in the Caribbean
And why it needs more prominence By Hugh Riley The emergence of the travel and tourism sector in the Caribbean coincided with a move away from complete reliance on agriculture as the primary money earner. The decline of bananas, sugar, […]
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