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JetBlue Is Adding Extra Nonstop Flights to to Saint Lucia This Winter

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Saint Lucia is getting a significant airlift boost just in time for the peak winter travel season. JetBlue will be adding a second weekly nonstop flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport to Saint Lucia, operating on Saturdays from Nov. 22 through January. The new service supplements JetBlue’s existing daily flight from New York, a […]

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Tropic Ocean Airways Launching Flights to The Bahamas' Great Harbour Cay

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Leading regional carrier Tropic Ocean Airways is launching another nonstop route to The Bahamas, Caribbean Journal has learned.  The Fort-Lauderdale based airline will be kicking off scheduled flight service from Fort Lauderdale’s Sheltair Aviation to Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands of The Bahamas.  The new service will officially launch in September.  Great Harbour […]

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Caribbean Moment: An Oasis in The Bahamas

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You’re far away. Far from the world you know, far away even from The Bahamas you know.  This is Deep Creek, tucked just past the edge of Cape Eleuthera in The Bahamas.  It’s one of the Caribbean’s great destinations for bonefishing — but you don’t need a rod to appreciate the sheer tranquility of this […]

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The Bahamas Is Getting a New Hotel in Bimini

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By Alexander Britell A sleek new hotel is set to inject new energy into the Bimini archipelago of The Bahamas. It’s called illa Bimini, and the new project by Island Developers is slated to break ground in August. The beachfront “eco-chic” residential hotel, which will be designed by renowned architect Chad Oppenheim’s Oppenheim Architecture + […]


Caribbean Moment: An Oasis in The Bahamas

There’s an energy here. You feel it on Seven Mile Beach, in the hotels, in the streets of George Town, by day and by night. It’s palpable. It’s because the Cayman Islands is one of the most dynamic destinations in the Caribbean right now, with a tourism offering that’s as fresh and sophisticated and authentic […]

The Bahamas’ Ultimate Adventure Hotel

By Guy Britton The Andros Barrier Reef is one of the longest barrier reefs on earth. Another mile offshore the reef meets a wall that drops to a depth of 6,000 feet. Here on Andros, you quickly realize that there are few places like this — and even fewer like Small Hope Bay Lodge. Here on […]

A Bonefishing Paradise in The Bahamas

By Guy Britton CARGYLE CREEK — Yesterday we saw a bonefish 24 inches long. Today we are going back to catch it.   You can travel the world and back and not find a place that rivals Andros for the quantity and the size of its bonefish. And no place on Andros is better for big […]

The Best Fly Fishing Shop in The Bahamas

By Guy Britton It’s long been a paradise for flyfishermen: Long Island, the aptly-named 80-mile-long destination in the heart of The Bahamas. The island’s lee-side bays are nothing short of ground zero for flyfishermen, with some particularly large bonefish catches in the waters. But any bonefishing journey on Long Island typically begins here: Bonafide Bonefishing, […]

VIDEO: A Journey to Acklins Island, the Bahamian Outback

By Alexander Britell and Guy Britton It’s early in the afternoon and we need a stop at the local market. We pull up to a small building in Chester’s without a sign. “Why isn’t there a sign?” I ask Papa Chis. “Because everybody knows where it is,” he says. “There’s only one.” Chester’s is a […]

Black Fly Lodge in Bahamas' Abaco Joins Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts Portfolio

Above: construction at Black Fly Lodge By the Caribbean Journal staff The Black Fly Lodge on the Bahamian island of Great Abaco has joined the Expedition Properties Portfolio of Guy Harvey Outpost Resorts. The bonefishing lodge is owned and operated by Vaughn Cochran, the founder of fishing company Blackfly. “The Abacos have a world-class reputation […]

Following Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Bimini

By Alexander Britell There is a calm on these mystical waters, blue, silent. Somewhere among the mangroves there is a sanctuary. Ansil slowly drives the flats boat, the one he built with his own hands, negotiating the green, taking us on a watery path only he knows until he stops to peer at the sky. […]