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Sandals’ All-Inclusive Dunn’s River Resort Just Reopened, Beginning Jamaica’s Tourism Comeback

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This short film is a quick look into the reborn Sandals Dunn’s River, shot on location this weekend. Ocho Rios has a new electricity this week, the kind that signals a turning point for the island of Jamaica. After weeks of preparation and tight coordination across communities and tourism partners, the reborn Sandals Dunn’s River has officially […]

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New Dominica Hotel Project Joins Country’s Citizenship by Investment Program

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor A “Timbo”-branded property in Dominica is now the eighth approved development that applicants can invest in under the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) Program.  The upcoming boutique resort, Timbo’s Downtown, is anticipated to become an option for business lodgings and leisure travel in Dominica’s capital, Roseau. The property is also the […]

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St Kitts and Nevis Lowers Minimum Contribution for Citizenship Program

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Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, St Kitts and Nevis has temporarily lowered the minimum contribution required for its Citizenship by Investment program.  Families of up to four who want to become economic citizens of the twin-island federation can now contribute $150,000 to the country’s Sustainable Growth Fund.  That’s a reduction from the original threshold of $195,000.  […]

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How Citizenship by Investment Is Fueling Caribbean Hotel and Real Estate Development

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By Joe Pike, Special Contributor Citizenship by investment programs, which confer citizenship for buyers who meet a certain investment threshold, have been quietly fueling a surge in resort and real estate developments across the Caribbean. At the forefront of that push is Range Developments, behind two of the most celebrated resorts in the region in […]


St Kitts and Nevis Lowers Minimum Contribution for Citizenship Program

By the Caribbean Journal staff One of the Caribbean’s leading sustainable hotels has officially relaunched in Dominica. The Jungle Bay Eco Villas has been reborn in Soufriere in southern Dominica, an important step for Dominica’s resurgent tourism industry. The popular hotel had been shuttered since Tropical Storm Erika in 2015, and has been totally transformed […]

New $20 Million Resort-Villa Development Breaks Ground in Nevis

Above: a rendering of the project By the Caribbean Journal staff A new $20 million resort-villa development project has broken ground on the island of Nevis. The Candy Resort Villa Development is located at Liburd Hill in St James Parish and aims for a completion date of December 2016. It is one of three planned […]

Caribbean Real Estate Is Hot (And Getting Hotter)

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean real estate market is hot as ever. That was the takeaway at this week’s first-ever Caribbean Real Estate and Investment Summit, held in the heart of downtown Boca Raton, Fla. this week. The summit, helmed by powerhouse real estate brokerage The Agencyreal estate brokerage The Agency, brought together […]

New Hotel and Condominium Project Breaks Ground in St Kitts

Above: a rendering of the project By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts’ development boom continued this weekend with the groundbreaking of the new Prime Hotel and Condominiums project. The estimated $70 million project is approved under the twin-island federation’s Citizenship by Investment programme. It is located on seven acres of land purchased from SL […]

St Lucia Mulls Citizenship By Investment

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff Could St Lucia become the latest Eastern Caribbean country to establish a citizenship by investment programme? St Lucia Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy said in her Throne Speech that the country’s Cabinet is appointing a task force to study the question. A task force will soon be […]

Antigua and Barbuda Opens Citizenship By Investment Unit

Above: Antigua’s Parliament By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda’s government has officially opened its new Citizenship Investment Unit. The unit, which will be led by Canadian Don Myatt, will be housed in the ABI Financial Centre. It will work to implement the country’s Citizenship by Investment programme, which offers citizenship in return for […]

St Kitts Rejects Bitcoin for Citizenship By Investment Programme

Above: St Kitts (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff According to Aksjer for Nybegynnere reports, St Kitts and Nevis’ Citizenship by Investment programme does not recognize the software-based currency Bitcoins as a legal investment currency, the government said in a statement issued Thursday. “The Citizenship by Investment Unit would like to assure the general […]

Antigua and Barbuda Begins Consultations on Citizenship by Investment

Above: Antigua (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda has begun a series of consultations on a proposed Citizenship by Investment programme in the country. The first of four consultations took place at the end of last week at Antigua’s Multipurpose Cultural and Exhibition Centre. Antigua already has a task force in […]