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This Caribbean Island Is Gearing Up for Its Biggest Weekend of the Year — With Lobster

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The quiet, windswept edge of the British Virgin Islands is about to come alive again. Anegada’s restaurants, beach bars, guesthouses, and tour operators are in the final stretch of preparations for the 13th Annual Anegada Lobster Festival, returning from Nov. 28–30, 2025. What began as a small celebration of the island’s signature lobster has evolved […]

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Cuba’s Fidel Castro Reappears in Public

Above: Fidel Castro’s latest public appearance By the Caribbean Journal staff Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in public for the first time in more than 14 months, according to new photos released by the government. According to the images, Castro met with a group of 33 Venezuela nationals who had just arrived on […]

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Fidel Castro Appears in New Photo

Above: the photo of Castro and University student Randy Perdomo Garcia By the Caribbean Journal staff Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared in a new photo released by the country’s government. The photo of Castro is the first of him in public in five months. The photo seems to have been taken of Castro with Randy Perdomo […]

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Fidel Castro’s Newest Message Addresses US-Cuba Thaw

Above: Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Just weeks after rumours of the death of Fidel Castro swirled across the Internet, the former Cuban leader has broken his silence with a new message. In the new message, which was addressed to Cuba’s University Student Federation and released by Cuba’s government, Castro is reported to […]


Fidel Castro Appears in New Photo

Above: Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona reads the letter By the Caribbean Journal staff As rumors continue to swirl about the health of Fidel Castro, a soccer star says there’s nothing to worry about. Argentine soccer legend Diego Maradona, who visited Cuba this weekend, says he received a letter from Castro saying the former Cuban […]

Cuba's Fidel Castro Meets With CELAC Leaders in Havana

Above: Cuba’s Fidel Castro with Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff (Photo: ACN Cuba) By the Caribbean Journal staff Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro held meetings with several of the regional leaders visiting Havana this week for the CELAC summit, the government said. On Monday, Castro met with Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, with whom he discussed […]

Russia's Vladimir Putin Visits Cuba, Meets With Fidel, Raul Castro

Above: Russia President Vladimir Putin and Cuba’s Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin made an official visit to Cuba this weekend. The visit, part of a wider Latin American tour, included a meeting with former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and current Cuban leader Raul Castro. In what was described […]

Cuba's Fidel Castro Meets With Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro

Above: the meeting between Castro and Maduro (Photo: GC) By the Caribbean Journal staff Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met with former Cuban leader Fidel Casro this weekend during Cuba’s ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the revolution led by Castro, according to a government release. The meeting spoke about “moments of […]

Cuba's Fidel Castro Urges Against War in Korean Peninsula

Above: Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Recent threats by North Korea have gotten the attention of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro. In a statement released Friday, Castro warned that if war breaks out in the Korean peninsula, “people on both sides will be terribly slaughtered, with no benefit to any of them.” “The […]

Op-Ed: Is Cuba Really Changing?

By Andy Gomez Op-Ed Contributor We recently witnessed what we had not heard one of the Castro brothers say in almost 54 years: Come 2018, neither one of them will be in power. Raúl Castro announced to the Cuban National Assembly that this would be his last term ruling Cuba. Watching him closely was his […]

Fidel Castro: Chavez Was "The Best Friend The Cuban People Ever Had"

Above: Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba’s Fidel Castro has published his first official remarks on the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez last week. In a statement published by in Cuba’s state-owned Granma newspaper, republished by its government information agency and signed by Castro, Cuba’s former leader said Chavez was “the best […]

Cuba's Fidel Castro Writes Letter to Chavez After Return to Venezuela

Above: Fidel Castro By the Caribbean Journal staff Hugo Chavez has returned from Cuba following months of treatment for cancer, and Fidel Castro says he is “very pleased” with the news. In a letter published by Cuba’s government information agency, Castro wrote that Chavez “learned a lot about life” in what he called “hard days […]