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Nigel Spence: A Recipe for Cauliflower Rice and Peas

Your newest healthy recipe By Chef Nigel Spence CJ Contributor During the Christmas rush, I heard folks in Jamaica were frantically checking their lists and checking them twice, they had to find out if they bought plastic or rice! Reports […]

Grand Cayman’s Comfort Suites Makes Upgrades

Comfort Suites Seven Mile Beach is now welcoming guests to enjoy its newly upgraded common and breakfast areas. The Grand Cayman hotel recently renovated its lobby with the addition of a Marketplace offering sundry items and as well as hot […]

Why You Need to Visit This “Stickless Popsicle” Shop in Old San Juan

How to stay cool in San Juan By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor From his tiny Old San Juan house, Juan Eddie Rosado has been keeping Sanjuaneros cool for 46 years. During that time he’s sold his refreshing cups of […]

How to Create Your Own Souvenir in Curaçao

Curaçao’s Must-Visit Art Factory By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you’ve ever been to Curaçao you’ve no doubt seen the colorfully painted dolls called “chichis.” The Rubenesque ceramic figurines, whose name means “big sister” in the local dialect, Papiamento, […]

Bahamas’ Deep Water Cay Resort Is For Sale

One of the Caribbean’s most exclusive resorts is now for sale. The private-island Deep Water Cay resort has been listed for sale, brought to market by Colliers International Hotel Group. The property is located in the East Grand Bahama National […]

Bahamas PM: Baha Mar to Be Completed, Sold

The troubled Baha Mar megaresort project in the Bahamas will soon have new life, according to Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie. The Prime Minister said that the government and the Export-Import Bank of China have signed an agreement under which […]

Five Fun Things to Do in San Juan

Nowhere is Puerto Rico’s unique cultural complexity (a blend of African, Spanish and other European influences reflected in its history, food, arts and culture) more apparent than in its cosmopolitan capital of San Juan. And since there’s no passport required […]

How to Buy a Caribbean Passport

By Nuri Katz As globalization continues, increasing numbers of global high net worth individuals (HNWI) have sought out citizenship by investment opportunities, according to a recent report by the New World Health Organization. Citizenship-by-investment provides HNWI and their families the […]

The Road to Prosperity in Jamaica

By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor The Jamaica Labour Party’s slogan, “Poverty to Prosperity”, was very catchy and seemed to have been embraced by enough people for them to win the elections. Now that the election is over, we certainly as […]

$2 Billion Caribbean Resort Project Closer to Launch

The Caribbean’s biggest new hotel project is closer to launching. Right now, it’s called the Grenada Resort Complex Project, the brainchild of a China-based development group called United Demi Group. The project, which held its official launch in China last […]

Bahamian Government Says Potential Buyers Emerging for Baha Mar

Government confident in sale By Alexander Britell NASSAU — Could the Baha Mar soon have a new owner? Potential buyers have begun to emerge for the stalled megaresort project, which had been slated to open in late 2014 but shuttered […]

Lighthouse Pointe Opens in the Bahamas

A major new hotel project has been completed in Grand Bahama. The Lighthouse Pointe is the newest Bahamas all inclusive at the Grand Lucayan resort has officially opened its doors. “As we enter 2016, Lighthouse Pointe marks Grand Lucayan’s entry into […]

Your New Jamaican Pork Recipe

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor It is said that China is the world’s largest pork consumer, housing about 476 million pigs, according to the Earth Policy Institute. What I know is if they took stats for Jamaica alone, my Dad, […]

Barbados Minister Urges “Bold” Tourism Steps

A renewed call By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Barbados Minister of Tourism and International Transport Richard Sealy is calling for key players in the tourism industry to take bold, innovate steps in an effort to move Barbados forward as a tourist […]

A Baha Mar “Breakthrough”

“Much-anticipated breakthrough” By the Caribbean Journal staff Baha Mar contractor China Construction America has returned to the major project’s construction site, the development’s joint liquidators confirmed this week. The company has “returned to the site for analysis and assessment of […]

Barbados Gets $10 Million Loan for Job Creation

A new loan from IDB By Dana Niland CJ Contributor The Inter-American Development Bank has approved a $10 million loan in an initiative to reduce poverty and create jobs in Barbados. The program aims to alleviate the country’s poverty and […]

Addis Ababa and the Caribbean

Global financing and the Caribbean By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors The issue of global financing for development is a critical theme in the international development agenda with the most recent United Nations (UN) meeting being the Third […]

Transport, Logistics and Competitiveness in the Caribbean

A new look at regional logistics By George Nicholson Op-Ed Contributor Regional trade policy, whether internally or externally guided, has traditionally focussed on removing tariff and non-tariff barriers. This has long been espoused as the catalyst that would enhance regional […]

Antigua’s Major New Airport

A big new airport for the region By Alexander Britell It isn’t just a major new airport for Antigua and Barbuda. It’s a major new airport for the wider Caribbean region. Antigua and Barbuda is slated to open the brand-new VC […]

Op-Ed: The Challenge of Small Island Developing States

Big challenges for small islands By George Nicholson and Anastasia Ramjag Op-Ed Contributors The United Nations Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States defines small island developing states, or […]

New $250 Million Hotel Project Breaks Ground in Nassau

Another big new project in New Providence By the Caribbean Journal staff A new $250 million dollar development has broken ground in Nassau. Pointe, as it is known, is slated to include 200 guest rooms, world-class shopping, fine dining options, […]

Jamaica’s Blue Mountains Are Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Above: the Blue Mountains in Jamaica By Dana Niland The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has unanimously agreed to designate Jamaica’s Blue and John Crow Mountains as a World Heritage Site. The designation, which was made at the 39th session of […]

LIAT Readies for Move to New Antigua Airport Terminal

Above: the soon-to-open airport terminal in Antigua (CJ Photo) By Dana Niland CJ Contributor LIAT is one of several carriers readying for a move to the new, larger terminal will soon open at Antigua’s VC Bird International Airport. Staff members of Antigua-based […]

A New $2 Billion Caribbean Resort Project

Above: Grenada (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff There’s another new mega-project coming to the Caribbean, this time to the Eastern Caribbean island of Grenada. The $2 billion USD project is called the Grenada Resort Complex Project, which officially […]

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 […]

In Puerto Rico, Turning the Travel World into an Island

Above: the Puerto Rico Convention Center By Alexander Britell SAN JUAN — The Caribbean’s newest travel conference began with a simple idea. “We decided that the world should become an island,” says Ingrid Rivera Rocafort, executive of the director of […]

The Caribbean’s Big New Canal Project

Above: Lake NIcaragua By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors On Dec. 22, 2014, the Government of Nicaragua and the international infrastructure development firm, Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd. (HKND), publicly announced the commencement of the […]

Nigel Spence: A Recipe for Crab Cakes, Jamaican Style

By Nigel Spence CJ Contributor There was great excitement in Jamaica last week as President Barack Obama paid a visit to our island paradise. He was the first sitting US President in over 30 years to have made an official […]

In Punta Cana, an All-Inclusive Designed With Multi-Generational Travel in Mind