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The Caribbean Travel Awards 2026

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When the final tallies come in, more than 35 million people will likely have visited the Caribbean as overnight guests in 2025 — around 4 percent more than the previous year, and about 3 percent more than in 2019. That’s along with another 38 million arriving on a cruise ship. In other words, travelers continue […]

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Jamaica Looks to Expand Community Tourism

A new push for niche tourism sector By Dana Niland CJ Contributor Jamaica is allocating funding from the Tourism Enhancement Fund (TEF) for the development of community tourism in North West Manchester. Member of Parliament for North West Manchester, Mikael Phillips, said plans include turning the community of Maidstone, the first free village in Manchester, […]

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In St Lucia, a Push for Community Tourism

Above: St Lucia (CJ Photo) By Dana Niland CJ Contributor St Lucia is working on a new program that will directly link its communities with tourism development. The Ministry of Tourism, Heritage, and Creative Industries has teamed up with The Visitor Channel and the Alliance Francaise for a project called The Community Tourism Promotion Program. The […]

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United States President Barack Obama to Visit Jamaica

Above: United States President Barack Obama By Alexander Britell United States President Barack Obama will be visiting the Caribbean next month. In what will be his first visit to the region since 2011, Obama will be making an official visit to Jamaica on April 9. The visit was announced by Jamaica Prime Minister Portia Simpson […]


In St Lucia, a Push for Community Tourism

Above: Lithuania By the Caribbean Journal staff Th ebaltic state of Lithuania has named its first-ever Ambassador to CARICOM. Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite was accredited to CARICOM on Monday. She is a former president of the United Nations Security Council and has been serving as Lithuania’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2012. Ambassador Raimonda Murmokaite […]

Sustainable Tourism Conference Begins in St Eustatius

Above: St Eustatius (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell ST EUSTATIUS — Particularly for small islands, tourism development needs to begin in the community. That’s the overarching theme of the third annual Statia Sustainable Conference & Exhibition, which began on Thursday here in Oranjestad on the Dutch Caribbean island. This year’s conference, which covers “tourism and […]

Caribbean, Latin American Tourism Agencies to Meet in Trinidad

Above: Trinidad (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Tourism agencies from across Latin America and the Caribbean are slated to meet on Monday in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. The agencies are gathering under the theme of “Sustainable Tourism: Building Bridges for Co-operation and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean “Promoting Community […]

CARICOM "Deeply Concerned" By Israel-Palestinian Violence

Above: CARICOM Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Community is “deeply concerned” by the escalation of the Israel/Palestinian conflict, Secretary General Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said in a statement issued Wednesday. “The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) condemns the killing of three Israeli teenagers and the revenge killing of a young Palestinian,” […]

CARICOM to Focus on Development of "Single ICT Space"

Above: CARICOM headquarters in Guyana By the Caribbean Journal staff The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) said this week that it would focus for the next two years on unveiling its proposed “Single Information Communication Technology ICT Space” in the region. The “single ICT space” would serve as what CARICOM called the “digital layer” of the single […]

Jamaica Adding New Community Access Points in Kingston, St James

Above: Jamaican Minister of State for Technology Julian Robinson By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government is adding four new Community Access Points in Kingston and St James, according to Minister of State in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining Julian Robinson. The CAPs are essentially “Internet cafes,” Robinson said, with a group […]

Guerda Nicolas: In Haiti, Community Healing Through Performance Art

By Guerda Nicolas CJ Contributor As Haiti marks 210 years of independence, in the face of continual challenges from the massive earthquake in 2010, in the historical region of Arcahaie Haiti (often referred to as the mother of Haiti), there are signs of courage, pride, community engagement and hope. That was exemplified in the recent […]

Antigua and Barbuda, China Sign Deal on Community Centre Project

Above: Antigua PM Baldwin Spencer and Ren Gonping, China’s Ambassador to Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff Antigua and Barbuda and China have signed an agreement for the construction of a “multipurpose community centre” as part of the Gray’s Green Community Comprehensive Buildings Project. The agreement on the project, which has been in the works […]