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Caribbean Photo of the Week: Enjoying the View on Grace Bay Beach

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The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Gary Gardiner, who sent this lovely photo from his stay at the Palms resort on Grace Bay Beach in Turks and Caicos. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and last […]

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VIDEO: A Ti’ Punch on the Beach in Martinique

There are few better ways to spend an afternoon in the Caribbean than sitting on the beach with a ti’ punch. It’s no secret that we’re huge fans of this oh-so-simple, oh-so-spectacular cocktail, made of rhum agricole, a quarter lime and cane sugar. This is how you kick back in Martinique, in this case with […]

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Barack Obama’s Caribbean Restaurant

The Buck Stops Ici By Alexander Britell MARTINIQUE — Burst onto the scene in 2008, new, exciting, unprecedented. Now, a part of history. I’m talking, of course, about a seafood restaurant in Sainte Luce, Martinique, the one that shares its name with the president of the United States. This is La Baraqu’Obama, the sprawling seafood joint […]

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Norwegian Launches First-Ever Flights to Martinique

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European carrier Norwegian Air has launched its first-ever flights to the French Caribbean. Norwegian launched its three-times-weekly flights from New York to Martinique this week, the first time Martinique has been accessible by air from the northeastern United States in more than two decades. This week, Norwegian also launched twice-weekly nonstop flights from Baltimore and […]


Barack Obama’s Caribbean Restaurant

Last year, Caribbean Journal launched the first-ever Caribbean Travel Awards to honor the hotels, destinations and people who help make Caribbean travel better. And we’re doing it again this year, looking at the region both from the perspective of the people who travel to the Caribbean and the impact the tourism industry has on this […]

VIDEO: 10 Seconds at Ti’ Sable Beach Bar in Martinique

It’s one of the great beach bars in the Caribbean: Ti’ Sable on Grand Anse D’Arlet in Martinique, home to some of some seriously relaxing beach oases. And if you can’t be there right now, don’t worry — CJ has you covered. Here’s what it’s like on the sand at Ti’ Sable. Just sit back, […]

VIDEO: On the Sea at the Hotel Bakoua in Martinique

One of the best hotels in Martinique, the Hotel Bakoua is also home to some seriously good bars, none more famous than its Coco Bar, a floating “bungalow” bar extending into the bay of Fort de France. Plainly, it’s a very nice place to be. We shot this in the early morning in Trois Islets.

This Is Your New Thanksgiving Rum Cocktail

Sure, you’ll find a lot of recipes for hot buttered rum this week, or perhaps an early egg nog with spiced rum. But why not go grand? That’s where our favorite new recipe comes in: the Creole Royale, a French Caribbean take on the classic Kir Royale champagne cocktail. It’s a mix of classic champagne […]

A Secret Beach Bar in Martinique

By Alexander Britell MARTINIQUE — Places of great value don’t find you. You find them. Sometimes it takes a wrong turn, or an extra 30 minutes, or a decision that you won’t stop until you find exactly what you didn’t know you were looking for. The kind of things that will take you to Aqua […]

VIDEO: Why This Might Be the Perfect Caribbean Rum Distillery

Deep in the north of Martinique, in a rainforest, at the foot of a fearsome volcano, it is there. Rhum JM, a distillery that produces some of the best rum in all of the West Indies. There is a way people speak about this distillery, a kind of reverential tone, that they know there is […]

Rum Journal: HSE Porto Finish

It’s no secret we’re big fans of Martinique’s Habitation Saint-Etienne, or Rhum HSE. It’s a distillery we’ve often praised for its creativity, particularly for its pioneering work in finishing traditional rhums agricoles in barrels like sherry and malt whisky. The sherry-finish editions, particularly, were particularly good. So we were delighted to discover that the company […]

Rum Journal: Another Interesting Variety From Rhum Saint James

It’s practically a given: when you open a bottle of Martinique’s Rhum Saint James, you’ll find a high-quality, great-tasting rhum agricole.  But what’s also a given is something a bit more rare: whatever the age, whatever the vintage, St James will offer you an interesting rhum. And the latest St James we tried is no […]