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Why Nassau and Paradise Island Is the Caribbean New Year’s Eve Capital

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When the calendar turns toward Dec. 31, there’s really one place to be in the Caribbean. Nassau and Paradise Island. When it comes to ringing in the New Year, the twin-island hotspot gives you one of the Caribbean’s most varied and high-profile New Year’s Eve lineups. From large-scale resort concerts and fireworks to refined gala […]

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There's a New Baseball Stadium in The Bahamas 

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Miami Marlins star Jazz Chisholm just might be the most famous baseball player ever from The Bahamas.  But the reality is that Chisholm is part of a growing wave of high-level baseball talent coming from The Bahamas, a growing baseball power and a nation that is quickly falling in love with the game. (Another Bahamian […]

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Curaçao Baseball Is Joining the Caribbean Series

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The Dutch Caribbean island of Curaçao has produced some outstanding Major League Baseball players in the last few decades, from Andruw Jones to Didi Gregorius to Ozzie Albies.  And now the island is taking a major new step, with the announcement that it will be entering the Caribbean Series for the first time next year.  […]

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Mariano Rivera Is the Face of Panama’s New Tourism Push

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By the Caribbean Journal staff Baseball legend and Panama native Mariano Rivera will soon be the face of Panama’s reenergized tourism push. The former New York Yankees closer, who will inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend, will be at the center of a major new tourism campaign aimed at courting travelers to […]


Curaçao Baseball Is Joining the Caribbean Series

By the Caribbean Journal staff An ultra-luxe villa in the Dominican Republic is headed to auction. Concierge Auctions is selling the property, a 17,000-square-foot hilltop estate that includes everything from a regulation-size baseball diamond to horse stables to boat dockage that comes with its own boat. The property, which is currently listed for $21 million, […]

Cuba Wins Caribbean Series for First Time Since 1960

Above: the Cuban team following its victory By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean has a new baseball champion: Cuba. The island’s Pinar del Rio club won the Caribbean Series this week, 55 years after their previous victory. Cuba had only returned to series play last year, after more than a half century on the […]

Major League Baseball Holding Tryouts in Curacao

By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Major League Baseball will hold national tryouts in Curacao next week. The tryouts will be held as part of MLB’s Elite Program in Curacao, the first of its kind on the island. The Elite Program is part of the MLB’s “continued commitment to the development of baseball globally,” it said […]

Bahamas Breaks Ground on National Baseball Stadium

Above: the groundbreaking last week (BIS Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas has officially broken ground on a national baseball stadium. The Andre Rodgers National Baseball stadium, named for the first Bahamian to make the Major Leagues, will be completed in 2015. The stadium, designed by architect Michael Foster, will “support the nation’s […]

The Bahamian Bronx Bomber

Above: Antoan Richardson By the Caribbean Journal staff Nassau, Bahamas-born outfielder Antoan Richardson is back in Major League Baseball, and this time for the league’s preeminent franchise: the New York Yankees, aka the Bronx Bombers. Richardson made news when he was first called up by the Atlanta Braves in 2011, as the sixth-ever Bahamian to […]

Panama to Host Games Between Yankees, Marlins in March

Above: Rod Carew Stadium in Panama By the Caribbean Journal staff The New York Yankees and the Miami Marlins will play a two-game series of exhibition games in Panama City next month, the clubs announced Thursday. The two-game series will be the first Major League Baseball games played in Panama since 1947. The March 15-16 […]

11 Caribbean Baseball Players to Watch in the 2014 Season

Above: Robinson Cano By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean seems to be taking over the baseball world. From David Ortiz’s postseason heroics to the rookie-season surge of Yasiel Puig, the region continues its rise as perhaps the single-greatest source of baseball talent in the world. And there are a number of Caribbean players to […]

Caribbean Idea: Should an MLB Team Open an Academy in the Bahamas?

Above: the Bahamas Baseball is extremely popular in the Spanish and Dutch-speaking Caribbean. Players from the Dominican Republic account for more than 10 percent of all players in Major League Baseball, and some of the best young prospects in the majors hail from places like Aruba and Curacao. In the English-speaking Caribbean, baseball hasn’t found […]