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The Warmest Place in the Caribbean Has Electric Blue Water, Cactus-Filled Deserts, and Sun-Baked Salt Flats

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The moment you step outside your room, you feel the heat. It’s not warm. It’s hot. The air presses in immediately. The sand scalds your feet the first time you step onto it. You move faster without thinking. Winter feels far away, like something you left behind on another calendar. This is Bonaire at its most […]

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In Trinidad, the Archaeology of Cricket

Above: the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell PORT OF SPAIN — It is not so much a museum as an ongoing archaeological excavation. For decades, some of the world’s greatest cricketers have passed through the halls and played on the pitch at the Queen’s Park Cricket Club in Trinidad’s capital […]

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New Director at Cayman National Museum

By the Caribbean Journal staff Archaeologist Dr Margaret Leshikar-Denton has been named the new director of the Cayman Islands National Museum. Leshikar-Denton had previously worked at the museum as an archaeologist for 16 years doing research and producing displays. “I have great respect and appreciation for the heritage and culture of the Cayman Islands,” she […]