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Pendry Is Opening Its First-Ever Caribbean Resort in Barbados 

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Luxury boutique brand Pendry is opening its first-ever Caribbean hotel on the island of Barbados. The company is rebranding — and transforming – the former Port Ferdinand residential resort into what is now one of the region’s most anticipated debuts.  So what’s in store?  An 80-room retreat, with a marina, several eateries, a spa, a kids’ […]

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Island Shop: Are These the Perfect Caribbean Beach Totes?

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon Every beach bum knows that you can never have too many beach bags. So, straight from the USVI, here’s another for your consideration: I’m crushing on St. Thomas resident Gina Feddersen’s cotton canvas carriers. This pineapple-embellished one speaks to me, but there are five other nature-inspired block-printed designs guaranteed to catch your […]

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Island Bites: Eating Fried Fish at Jamaica’s Hellshire Beach

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon IT’S THE Sunday-morning ritual every Kingstonian loves: venturing out of the capital to Hellshire Beach. But the point of the pilgrimage to this St Catherine strip about 30 minutes from the capital isn’t sun, sea and sand. Rather, it’s all about the fish. A string of rustic fish shacks line the caramel […]

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10 Classic Caribbean Beach Bars

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Sometimes you want to go somewhere everybody knows your name – or at least where you’re guaranteed to get a great rum punch or local beer. Check out this list (in no particular order) of our favourite Caribbean watering holes, and then start plotting your plan of rum-fueled attack. […]

Island Bites: Eating Fried Fish at Jamaica’s Hellshire Beach

 By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor GOUVERNEUR BEACH, one of 14 beaches on St Barth, is defined more by what it lacks than its attributes. There’s no “beautiful people” scene like you’d find on St Jean or Shell Beach; no shady palms; no food; no water sports concessions; not even changing facilities. Instead, the crescent-shaped […]

Beach Collector: Exploring Orange Hill Beach in Nassau, Bahamas

 OUR NEW Beach Collector column will take you across the beautiful beaches of the Caribbean, with an emphasis on the underexplored — those out-of-the-way, off-the-beaten-path patches of sand we all dream about in the Caribbean. We begin with Orange Hill beach, located far down West Bay Street on the northern coast of the Bahamian island of […]

Beach Collector: Little Bay, Anguilla

 Above: Little Bay, Anguilla (CJ Photo) By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor On an island blessed with 33 white-sand shores – all of them outstanding – spending time on the beach in Anguilla is a no-brainer. If it’s seclusion and serenity you seek, head for the curvaceous cove at Little Bay. Accessible only by rope […]

New Beachfront Condominium Resort Coming to Bermuda

 Above: a rendering of the project (Graphics: OBMI) By Alexander Britell A new resort project is coming to Bermuda. A planning application has been submitted for the Bermudiana Beach Resort in Bermuda, the proposed redevelopment of the island’s South Shore development. Region-wide design firm OBM has submitted plans accompanying the application for the project, which would […]

VIDEO: How to Make The Caribbean's Easiest Rum Punch Recipe

 By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor I spent a week in Nevis recently, a magical trip that revolved around two resorts and imbibing at least that many tumblers of rum punch a day. After all, every hotel seemed to have their signature libation, and it would have been rude to refuse them, no? While they […]

11 Great Beaches in Nassau, Bahamas

 NASSAU — It’s simple: Nassau, otherwise known as the Bahamian island of New Providence, has some of the region’s most beautiful beaches. They have pure sand, classic Bahamian turquoise water and, most importantly, many of them are almost always empty. That means these aren’t just great beaches in Nassau — you might as well call most […]

The Best Caribbean Beaches for Everything

 When you think about heading to the beach, you might think about doing nothing. We are quite the opposite. We go to beaches for a purpose, and in the Caribbean we are fortunate to have a beach for just about any occasion. There are beaches for snorkeling, beaches for walking, jogging and cool breezes. There […]

New Condominium Development Opens in Dominican Republic

 Above: the Las Olas By Metro condominium By the Caribbean Journal staff The Las Olas By Metro condominium project has been inaugurated in the Dominican Republic. The beachfront residential tourism project has a total area of 40,000 square feet, with 246 apartments and 525 rooms. President Danilo Medina was on hand for the opening ceremony […]