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Carnival Just Made Its First Post-Melissa Cruise Call to Jamaica

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Carnival Cruise Line made its first official call to Ocho Rios on Wednesday as Carnival Sunrise arrived in port, marking the resumption of cruise visits to Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. Local officials and community partners greeted the ship as operations continued to stabilize across the north coast — with cruise guests officially returning to the […]

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Why the Cayman Islands Is a Caribbean Culinary Capital

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Many Caribbean islands boast about their culinary scene, but events like the Cayman Cookout demonstrate why the Cayman Islands is a cut above the rest. Hosted by celebrity chef Eric Ripert, this annual food festival staged at the Ritz Carlton Grand Cayman attracts top chefs like Jose Andreas, Andrew Zimmern, and Emeril Lagasse as well […]

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Cayman Airways Just Launched Nonstop Flights to Barbados 

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Cayman Airways has launched service to its newest destination: the island of Barbados, with weekly scheduled service now directly linking the Owen Roberts International Airport in Grand Cayman with the Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados.   The inaugural service is the result of a partnership between Cayman Airlines and Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. “The introduction […]

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Health City Breaks Ground on $100 Million Medical Facility in Cayman

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Health City, the renowned healthcare complex in Grand Cayman, is expanding.  Health City has broken ground on a $100 million state-of-the-art medical facility in Grand Cayman that will specialize in cancer care, neonatal intensive care and robotic surgery.  The new 70,000-square-foot facility, to be named Health City Camana Bay, will be located on the outskirts of the capital city of […]


Cayman Airways Just Launched Nonstop Flights to Barbados 

Southwest Airlines has relaunched its daily service between Fort Lauderdale and Grand Cayman, Caribbean Journal has confirmed.  The daily nonstop flights operate between Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport and Grand Cayman’s Owen Roberts International Airport.  It’s part of a broader flight relaunch to the Cayman Islands, joining restarted service on airlines like United Airlines, American Airlines […]

How (And Why) to Retire in the Cayman Islands

By Alexander Britell When it comes to making lifestyle decisions, the pandemic has only strengthened the appeal of the Caribbean, as more people flock to the region for sanctuary, seclusion and stability amid an uncertain global situation.  It has led to a number of new trends, including growing real estate demand in some Caribbean nations and an increasing number of destinations […]

Another Record-Setting Caribbean Real Estate Sale

Caribbean home sales are setting records. Whether it’s the all-time levels of residential sales volume in Turks and Caicos or the recent record-breaking deal in Cayman, the region’s real estate market is hotter than ever. And now another record has been broken. A villa at Dominica’s Secret Bay Resort in Dominica has set a new […]

Cayman Islands Seeing “Tremendous” Response to Global Citizen Program

By Alexander Britell The Cayman Islands is seeing a “tremendous response” to its newly-launched Global Citizen Concierge Program, which offers remote workers and their families the opportunity to apply to stay up to two years in the destination.  “We’ve got thousands of people reviewing [the program],” Cayman Islands Tourism Minister Moses Kirkconnell told Caribbean Journal […]

A Virtual Happy Hour in the Cayman Islands

The Cayman Islands is launching a virtual “Happy Hour” next week, part of the destination’s latest efforts for travelers who are stuck at home.  The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism is launching a “Live Music Happy Hour” on Friday, May 15 on its Facebook page.  The happy hour will feature Beneil Miller, a native of […]

Mark Gaus on What’s Next for Real Estate in the Cayman Islands

By Alexander Britell, Editor-in-Chief, CJI It’s hard to imagine that there was a hotter real estate market in the Caribbean in recent years, with surging development from beachfront condos to residential resorts. So what’s next for Cayman in the midst of the pandemic? To learn more, we talked to one of Cayman’s leading realtors, RE/MAX […]

JLL Hotels’ Andrew Dickey on the State of the Caribbean Hotel Market

What’s the state of the Caribbean hotel market in the age of the pandemic? To learn more, Caribbean Journal Invest caught up with Andrew Dickey, Executive Vice President at JLL Hotels and Hospitality in Miami. Here’s what he had to say.  Where was the market before the pandemic hit?  Given the Caribbean is very diversified […]

Caribbean Moment: A Secret Beach in Cayman

Maybe you’ve been to Seven Mile Beach, or had a mudslide at Rum Point. But if you want to go deeper, to find that sought-after Cayman Islands fantasy, you need Little Cayman, still one of the Caribbean’s greatest secrets. It’s the sort of tiny Caribbean destination we all dream about: where the airport runway is […]