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Caribbean Journal’s Holiday Gift Guide

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor ‘Tis the season for giving. And in that spirit we’re sharing 10 things – all either Caribbean-made or simply Caribbean cool – that will make perfect presents for island travelers. So go ahead: make […]

Catching Dinner at Barbados’ Colony Club

Above: on the sea on Barbados’ Platinum Coast (all photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell ST JAMES, BARBADOS — “Why are you whispering?” Captain Rory asked me. “So I don’t scare off the fish,” I said. Rory was leading a group […]

The Best Small Hotels in Negril

Above: Rockhouse in Negril By Guy Britton NEGRIL — People often say Negril is two places; the cliffs and the beach. We say Negril is countless places and different experiences. Some of the best hotel experiences in the world are created […]

In An Old Bar, the Heartbeat of Curaçao

Above: Netto Bar in Otrabanda (all photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell WILLEMSTAD — Two old fans beat on against the Caribbean heat, harder than any should have to work. A single fluorescent light at the back of the room is […]

Portrait of a Caribbean City: Willemstad, Curaçao in 14 Photos

By Alexander Britell (All photos by CJ) Curaçao — The sights; the smells; the hum. Willemstad isn’t like many places in the region — it’s a historic but bustling urban area with an energy all its own. Our new Portrait of […]

Caribbean Cookbook: A New Take on Breadfruit From Tortola

THE LATEST edition of Caribbean Cookbook brings you a special recipe from the Sugar Mill Hotel in Tortola, British Virgin Islands. It’s called Breadfruit Vichysoisse; the Sugar Mill’s Jinx Morgan has more: At the restaurant at the Sugar Mill Hotel […]

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 […]

Caribbean Design: Steve Fox on Outdoor Living in the Caribbean

By Steve Fox CJ Contributor ONE OF the first questions we ask a new client when embarking on the design process is: do you want to use air conditioning in your new home? For some, there’s no debate; the house […]

Meet the Caribbean: Christiansted, St Croix in 9 Photos

Our latest Meet the Caribbean travels to the historic city of Christiansted on the island of St Croix in the United States Virgin Islands. The onetime Danish town, which is among the more charming of its kind in the whole […]

Grenada Names Board of Directors For New Tourism Authority

Above: Grenada By the Caribbean Journal staff The Board of Directors has been officially announced for the newly-formed Grenada Tourism Authority, the Ministry of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Culture announced this week. The new members were officially named in the […]

Nigel Spence: A Jamaican Wartime Stew

By Chef Nigel Spence CJ Contributor AS THE United States remains poised on what could well result in World War 3, it gives me cause for reflection. Until now, the possibility of experiencing a world war in my time has […]

The Best Rum Cake in the Bahamas

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon I THOUGHT THE SWIMMING PIGS would be the highlight of the day. Boy, was I wrong. I was on a day trip in the Exumas, the 365-island Bahamas archipelago famous for crystal clear waters, talcum sand and […]

Forbes: Jamaicanisms “Germanized” by VW – How Cool is That?

Above: Volkswagen’s Super Bowl ad (Photo: VW) By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Keeping Abreast via Tweets I NOTICED excited tweets about Jimmy Cliff’s music being featured in a Volkswagen (VW) ad for Super Bowl 2013. Tweeps seemed genuinely […]

Post-Earthquake Housing in Haiti

Above: housing near Delmas 32 (Photo: Mercidieu Moranvil) By Dieudonné Joachim The already acute pre-earthquake housing problem in Haiti was magnified when 190,000 homes were destroyed or damaged after the Jan. 12, 2010 trembler. Even though the construction sector experienced […]

Marcia Forbes: Branding Cuba

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor A Country in Transition I first visited Havana, Cuba at the end of the 1980s. It was a country in transition, with the “Cold War’” beginning to thaw. That “war,” driven by mighty rhetoric, […]

From Haiti, a Coffee With a Mission

Above: Haiti (UN Photo/Logan Abassi) By the Caribbean Journal staff A new coffee company heading to the United States is looking to do its part to help Haitian famers. Par Haiti/Pour Haiti (“From Haiti for Haiti”), the brainchild of Michael […]

Reparations Needed for People of African Descent, Barbados Culture Minister Says

Above: Barbados Culture Minister Stephen Lashley (Photo: UN Video) By Sharon Austin Barbados Culture Minister Stephen Lashley has called for “meaningful and innovative reparations” globally for people of African descent as past and continuing victims of racial discrimination. Lashley was […]

A New Way to Fly to Abaco in The Bahamas