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Your New Year’s Day Hangover Cure Is This Rum Cocktail

The Kraken cure By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor If you celebrated New Year’s Eve right, chances are you’ll be feeling a little worse for wear when January 1 rolls around. To make sure you don’t carry that feeling over […]

A Must-Visit Caribbean Regatta in the BVI

One of the Caribbean’s greatest regattas is back again in the British Virgin Islands for 2020. Next month, some 800 sailors and crew from around the world will descend on Tortola for the BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival. This […]

How to Take an Eco-Tourism Trip to Cancun

Cancun is looking to make itself a greener destination. “We are highly committed to providing tourists with additional reasons to choose Cancun as their preferred vacation destination year after year,” said Lizzie Cole, CEO of the Cancun CVB. “The destination’s […]

Barbados’ Must-Visit Summer Carnival: Crop Over

What to know about Barbados’ must-visit event: Crop Over By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Trinidad’s pre-Lenten Carnival is the Caribbean’s most famous festival, but Crop Over, the mid-summer Bajan bacchanal that traditionally marks the end of the sugar cane […]

The Caribbean’s Uninhibited Hotel

Exploring Hedonism II By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor It’s been a long time since I’ve seen so many naked people in one place. Thirty years, to be exact. That’s how long ago, as a fresh-faced student, I lived at […]

Panama’s Secret Caribbean

By Beatriz Torres Marin CJ Contributor “The place where you’ll change Uber for boat rides that will take you from island to island.” A FRIEND and I wanted to go on a short getaway and do nothing but chill by […]

Exploring The Cliff in Jamaica

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Sometimes you just know. Within moments of entering a hotel lobby, you know whether your stay is going to be just so-so or really spectacular. And the second I stepped into the open-air lobby […]

Swimming With Pigs in the Bahamas

Finding one swine day in the Bahamas By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor EXUMA — We’re in the Exuma Cays, a 365-island chain within the Bahamas’ archipelago that draws snorkelers, divers and fishermen. Our captain Ray Lightbourn, is leading our […]

Caribbean Art: Trinidad, From the Streets

Above: Fass, Paul Kain By David Cave CJ Contributor Paul Kain’s From the Streets (2015) : The Absence of Pretense The 27 pieces of Paul Kain’s latest exhibition at Soft Box Gallery hit you; like someone smacking you to the […]

Why This is the Biggest Challenge for Caribbean Youth (And Why There’s Hope)

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor This is Part 2 of excerpts from ‘Caribbean Youth and Unemployment’ prepared for the Inter-American Development Bank’s ‘XIV Reunion BID – Sociedad Civil’ hosted in Nicaragua during late 2014. Challenges of Joblessness Rebelliousness Online […]

Seeking Caribbean Prosperity

By Ryan Peterson CJ Contributor WHILE IT is no secret that the Caribbean has struggled with sustainable socio-economic growth for well over half-century, what is less readily known and acknowledged is that more than 50 percent of growth in national […]

Forbes: Jamaica’s Women’s Coalition Marks First Anniversary

By Marcia Forbes, PhD CJ Contributor The 51% Coalition – One Year Later About 15 organizations representing a broad cross-section of Jamaican society, including NGOs, the government and the private sector turned out to participate in a forum hosted to […]

Marcia Forbes: The Digicel-LIME Battle Continues in Jamaica

By Marcia Forbes PhD CJ Contributor Last week saw sparks flying between Digicel and LIME, Jamaica’s two telecom providers. There is nothing unusual about this. Over Christmas 2008, a full three years ago, as then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry […]

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