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10 Beautiful Caribbean Beach Towns That Are Still Surprisingly Under the Radar

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There’s a another Caribbean emerging beneath the big resorts and well-known coastlines — a quieter map of places where life unfolds at an easier pace, where mornings begin with the sound of fishing boats pushing off shore and evenings drift into candlelit dinners on the sand. These are the small beach towns that rarely headline […]

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As Haiti Develops Tourism Sector, It Looks to Aruba for Inspiration

Above: Aruba PM Mike Eman and Haiti PM Laurent Lamothe (Photo: OPM Haiti) By Alexander Britell In a region with few natural resources, tourism is to the Caribbean as oil is to the Middle East. To be sure, some countries capitalize on their tourism product better than others — and are working to further diversify […]

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Guyana Looks to the Middle East

Above: Ambassador George Hallaq and President Donald Ramotar (Photo: GINA) By the Caribbean Journal staff While the Arab Spring and its accordant political volatility halted Guyana’s desire to establish relations with country’s in the Middle East, it has renewed its efforts in that regard. Several countries in the Middle East could be looking to form […]

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Bahamas Petroleum Company, in Survey, Finds Supergiant Structures

By the Caribbean Journal staff The Bahamas Petroleum Company, which has offshore license permits in the Bahamas, said it had found structures similar to the so-called supergiant structures of the Gulf of Mexico and the Middle East. “What is most exciting is the scale and size of the structures we have been able to map […]


Guyana Looks to the Middle East

Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler If the unrest in the Middle East and North Africa continues, it could harm Caribbean economies, Barbados’ Minister of Finance, Chris Sinckler, has warned. “Our main assumption was that the main impact will be felt in the price of fuel,” he said. “It is the expectation that oil prices will […]