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This Celebrity Ship to Sail Year-Round Caribbean Cruises

Celebrity Cruises is adding another ship to the Caribbean for Year-Round Caribbean Cruises. The line has announced that Celebrity Equinox will be heading to the Caribbean for year-round sailings in both the Western and Eastern Caribbean. Equinox will sail 24 […]

Belize Tourism Is Having Its Best Year Ever

Belize’s tourism sector is booming. The country’s latest figures show one of the fastest-growing destinations in the wider Caribbean region, with a 16.5 percent increase in stayover visitors compared to the first half of 2015. That represented a total of […]

Caribbean Places Where You Can Try Your New Year’s Resolutions

Making your New Year’s resolutions? Us, too! After all, who doesn’t want to be the best version of themselves in 2016? Whether you want to lose weight, save money or just read more, we’ve rounded up some Caribbean places where […]

Your New Year’s Day Hangover Cure Is This Rum Cocktail

The Kraken cure By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you celebrated New Year’s Eve right, chances are you’ll be feeling a little worse for wear when January 1 rolls around. To make sure you don’t carry that feeling over […]

A Very Strong Year for Dominican Republic Tourism

The Caribbean’s biggest tourism market is having another very strong year. The Dominican Republic is reporting an 8.5 percent increase in stayover tourist arrivals so far in 2015, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country received 4.22 […]

Where to Spend New Year’s Eve in San Juan, Puerto Rico

This year’s top spot By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Heading to Puerto Rico’s capital for the New Year? We have you covered. The hottest spot in San Juan should be the O:live Boutique Hotel, which is hosting an upscale, rooftop […]

Expedia Just Held the Year’s Most Important Travel Conference

Talking Travel at the Expedia Partnership Conference By Guy Britton LAS VEGAS — Captain Obvious, the Trivago Guy and the Travelocity Gnome welcomed 3,500 delegates from over 60 countries attending this year’s Expedia Partner Conference in Las Vegas December 9-10 […]

The Best Way to Spend New Year’s Eve in the Caribbean

There are great parties across the Caribbean on New Year’s Eve. But if you want to experience the ultimate island experience, the one that you’ll always remember, there’s simply one option: Old Year’s Night. It’s an annual, legendary fete held […]

JetBlue Launching Year-Round Mint Service to Barbados

After less than a month, travelers to the Caribbean have spoken. And so JetBlue is expanding its Mint premium cabin offering in the Caribbean. The New York City-based carrier announced that it would be offering the Mint premium service on […]

The Caribbean Beach Bar of the Year 2015: Martinique’s Le Petibonum

We all have the beach bars we keep going back to. Maybe it’s because of the beach itself, or that signature rum punch, or because of the food. Some beach bars are more than that. Some are just special. And […]

Norwegian Epic Is Returning to the Caribbean Next Year

NCL announces homeport change By the Caribbean Journal staff Norwegian Epic will be returning to Florida in November 2016 after more than a year in Europe, NCL announced. The ship will become the line’s largest ship to homeport from Port […]

Ziggy Marley Wins Reggae Grammy For Second Straight Year

Above: reggae star Ziggy Marley By the Caribbean Journal staff Another year, another Grammy win for Ziggy Marley. Just two days after his father would have turned 70, Jamaica’s Marley did his family proud with his second straight Grammy Award […]

A “Milestone” Year for CARICOM?

Above: CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque says 2014 was a “milestone” year for the regional grouping. LaRocque pointed to the approval in July of the community’s first-ever Five […]

Antigua and Barbuda Eyes 3,000 New Hotel Rooms in Five Years

Above: Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda is eyeing the development of 3,000 new hotel rooms in the next five years, according to Prime Minister Gaston Browne. The twin-island state has been on a major development push […]

Cayman Islands Tourism Sector Continues Strong Year

Above: the Tamarind Bay condos on Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands is continuing a very strong year for tourism. The British Overseas Territory received 293,652 tourist arrivals in the first nine months […]

St Vincent: “Substantial Completion” of Airport By End of Year

Above: St Vincent (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal stafff St Vincent and the Grenadines’s new airport is getting closer to its debut. Dr Rudy Matthias, chief executive officer of the country’s International Airport Development Company, said “steady progress” was […]

Haiti: United Nations Security Council Extends Peacekeeping Mission One Year

Above: United Nations peacekeepers in Haiti (UN Photo/Jesus Serrano Redondo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations Security Council has extended the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission in Haiti for one year, the world body announced Tuesday. The mission’s mandate was […]

Grenada Mulls 15-Year Development Plan

Above: Grenada (Caribbean Journal photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith MItchell has announced plans for a 15-year “National Development Plan.” The proposal was revealed following a visit to several cities in North Americ including New […]

Montserrat Saw 10 Percent Increase in Visitor Arrivals Last Year

Above: Montserrat By the Caribbean Journal staff Montserrat saw a 10 percent increase in visitor arrivals last year compared to 2012, according to new data from the British Overseas Territory’s government. In total, Montserrat received 15,648 visitors, up from 14,210 […]

Puerto Rico Economic Index Fell 3.8 Percent in Last Fiscal Year: Report

Above: San Juan (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico’s economy fell by 3.8 percent in the last fiscal year, according to data from the Government Development Bank of Puerto Rico. The Government Development Bank uses a metric […]

Steve McQueen’s “Twelve Years a Slave” Wins Best Picture Oscar

Above: Steve McQueen By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada has an Oscar. United Kingdom-born Steve McQueen’s film, “Twelve Years a Slave,” took home the Academy Award for Best Picture on Sunday evening. McQueen, whose parents were Grenadian (although his mother […]

Dominican Republic Tourism Rose 2.8 Percent Last Year: Report

Above: Punta Cana (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourist arrivals to the Dominican Republic increased to just under 4.7 million people last year, an increase of 2.8 percent, according to the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country was boosted […]

Grenada Marks 40 Years of Independence

Above: Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada celebrated its 40th anniversary of independence this weekend, the seventh CARICOM member state to do so. Grenada had been celebrating for a number of days leading up to the anniversary, which officially […]

Atlantis’ George Markantonis Named Caribbean Hotelier of the Year

Above: George Markantonis (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell MONTEGO BAY — George Markantonis has been named the Caribbean Hotelier of the Year, the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association announced on Sunday evening. Markantonis, a native of Zimbabwe, is the president […]

Haiti Marks 210 Years of Independence

Above: the Neg Mawon statue in Port-au-Prince (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti celebrated its 210th anniversary of independence on Wednesday. The country was the first in the Caribbean to achieve independence on Jan. 1, 1804. Haiti President […]

Reggae Album of the Year 2013: Beres Hammond’s “One Love, One Life”

IN A REGION as musically prolific as the Caribbean, it’s always hard to pick an album of the year. Beres Hammond, the world-famous native of Saint Mary, Jamaica first released his latest album at the very end of 2012; “One […]

Tessanne Chin: Caribbean Journal’s Artist of the Year 2013

Above: Tessanne Chin EVERY ONCE in a while, an artist comes around that manages to transcend performance. This year, it was certainly Jamaica’s Tessanne Chin. The native of Kingston and reggae fusion singer captured the attention of Jamaica and the […]

Caribbean Journal’s Entrepreneur of the Year 2013: Warren Cassell, Jr

Above; Warren Cassell, Jr AS THE GLOBAL economy gets tougher and tougher, the Caribbean will have to work that much harder to develop and train its entrepreneurs. In order to compete, the Caribbean will have to make sure that its […]

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