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New Caribbean InterContinental Resort Breaks Ground

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Legendary Caribbean Hotel and Marina Property Sold

A landmark hotel property in The Bahamas has been sold, Caribbean Journal Invest has learned. To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for […]

A Major New Caribbean Airport Project

One Caribbean island is set for a dramatic new international airport. To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel […]

How to Build a Hotel in the Caribbean

By Timothy Peck, Chairman of OBMI To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel agents and advisors. Subscribe today […]

CJI Conversation: Greg Norman on His Next Caribbean Projects

By Joe Pike, Special Contributor To access this content, subscribe now. Choose from two tailored subscription options: Caribbean Journal Invest for comprehensive investment news or Caribbean Journal Travel Advisor for targeted content for travel agents and advisors. Subscribe today to […]

How Barbados Is Preparing for Its Tourism Future

Every destination is working to prepare a plan for the eventual relaunch of tourism in a COVID-19 world. For Barbados, that means working on new health guidelines, continuing to market the destination digitally and even fast-tracking new hotel projects for […]

New $1 Billion Karisma Hotel Project Breaks Ground in Jamaica

A massive new destination hotel complex by Karisma Hotels and Resorts has officially broken ground in Jamaica. The estimated $1 billion USD multi-hotel Sugarcane Bay Jamaica project is set on 226 acres in Llandovery in Jamaica’s “garden parish” of St […]

A New All-Inclusive Destination Is Coming to the Dominican Republic

While Punta Cana has long been the Caribbean’s all-inclusive powerhouse, travel giant Apple Leisure Group is looking to cultivate a new destination in the Dominican Republic. It’s called Miches, and the destination will kick off with two new all-inclusive hotels. […]

There’s a New Dining Destination in St John

There’s a major new culinary destination in one of the Caribbean’s most beloved beach towns. New York couple John and Sarah Joyce are launching The Danforth this week, a new eatery in the beach town of Coral Bay in St […]

Rum Journal: A Conversation With Robert Burr

If you like rum, if you’ve found your way into the mysterious, wonderful world of rum, it’s likely you’ve come across the name Robert Burr. For years, Burr has been one of the world’s greatest champions of rum, spreading its […]

Norwegian Cruise Line Breaks Ground on New Terminal in Miami

By the Caribbean Journal staff Norwegian Cruise Line has officially broken ground on a new dedicated cruise terminal at PortMiami. The 166,500-square-foot terminal will accommodate ships of up to 5,000 passengers, with technology aimed at speeding up faster embarkation and […]

How Passenger Taxes Are Hurting Caribbean Aviation

By By Cdr. Bud Slabbaert Op-Ed Contributor What the Caribbean needs is so simple: rapid, reliable mobility at reasonable rates. What makes it so difficult? It is almost as short and simple to explain. There are two players; the aviation […]

Bahamian Government Says Potential Buyers Emerging for Baha Mar

Government confident in sale By Alexander Britell NASSAU — Could the Baha Mar soon have a new owner? Potential buyers have begun to emerge for the stalled megaresort project, which had been slated to open in late 2014 but shuttered […]

The Next Generation of Caribbean Tourism Talent

Engaging tourism talent By Ryan Peterson CJ Contributor As we celebrate World Tourism Day this week, for many in the Caribbean, every day is tourism day. It is a truism that tourism is part and parcel of our Caribbean island […]

How the Red Cross Failed Haiti

Above: The Red Cross promised to build hundreds of new homes in Campeche but none have been built. Many residents still live in crude shacks. (Marie Arago, special to ProPublica) By Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Laura Sullivan, NPR THE NEIGHBORHOOD […]

How Caribbean Youth Are Turning Digital Content Into a Business

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor Role-Models are Essential When you talk with Caribbean youth about the possibilities and hope that working online offers, you have to give them real-life examples to hang their dreams on and help them to […]

The Caribbean’s Big New Canal Project

Above: Lake NIcaragua By George Nicholson and Rachael Robinson Op-Ed Contributors On Dec. 22, 2014, the Government of Nicaragua and the international infrastructure development firm, Hong Kong Nicaragua Canal Development Investment Co. Ltd. (HKND), publicly announced the commencement of the […]

Medical Tourism in the Caribbean

By Paul Hay CJ Contributor The fifth “Global Ministerial Summit” was held in Washington, DC on Sept. 21. Ministers of health, tourism and economic development, trade commissioners, and health attachés from 25 nations gathered to discuss medical tourism challenges and […]

Chef Ron Duprat Talks Haiti

Above: Chef Ron Duprat A native of Haiti, Chef Ron Duprat has quickly become one of the best-known Caribbean-born chefs in the world, most notably as a competitor on season six of Bravo’s Top Chef television series. Duprat, has remained […]

Op-Ed: Jamaica, China and Goat Island

By David Rowe Op-Ed Contributor PRIOR TO this year very few Jamaicans had ever heard of Goat Island. In fact, if you had mentioned Goat Island to many Jamaicans they would not be able to identify it as a Jamaican […]

Op-Ed: Davidson Toussaint on Why Tourism Is Not Unrealistic For Haiti

By Davidson Toussaint Op-Ed Contributor THIS WEEK I had the opportunity to read an article about the study of Haiti tourism done by the University of Michigan, but quickly I understood that it was just another American institution trying to […]

China and the Caribbean — a Marriage Made in Heaven?

By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor ON A recent radio show in the Bahamas, the topic of China’s $8 million loan to the country was being discussed. A curious caller asked, “what do the Chinese want for these loans anyway?” Her […]

Clinton: Haiti a “Foreign Policy Priority”

Above: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Photo: US Department of State) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti opened the Caracol Industrial Park in northern Haiti, following a ceremony attended by Haiti President Michel Martelly, former US President Bill Clinton, […]

In Cayman, the Future of Electric Cars

Above: the Wheego LiFe (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell GRAND CAYMAN — It began with a small group of cars under a white tent just across from Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman — but it could herald the start […]

Puerto Rico Governor Fortuño Visits Ritz-Carlton Project in Dorado

Above: the site of the Ritz-Carlton Reserve project in Dorado By the Caribbean Journal staff Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño visited the construction site of the Dorado Beach Ritz-Carlton Reserve and Spa Thursday, a project with a total investment of […]

The Caribbean’s Most Exciting New Rooftop Bar Is In Antigua