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Virgin Atlantic Launches New Nonstop Flight to Cancún

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There’s something about arriving in Cancún that feels like the start of a story. The light hits different as the plane descends over the turquoise water; the horizon stretches toward the Riviera Maya; and the energy of the Mexican Caribbean seems to build before your feet even touch the sand. This Sunday, more travelers from […]

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Speightstown, a Must-Visit Caribbean Beach Town in Barbados

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By Alexander Britell Everybody knows Margaret. Whether you’re at Saint Peter’s Bay to the south or the Fisherman’s Pub, her name immediately conjures a smiling thought of the best fish cakes in Barbados. Most nights each week, Margaret (or her sister) sets up shop outside Jordans Supermarket in downtown Speightstown. And whether you’re hungry or […]

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5 Reasons to Visit Aruba This Summer

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The old capital of San Nicolas teems with color on a weekday afternoon, with bold murals popping up all over the city, teeming with artistic energy. Far on the other side of the island, kitesurfers take a break at the Tortuga Beach Bar, gazing out at the blindingly white expanse of Boca Grandi Beach. In […]

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Playa del Carmen’s New Frida Kahlo Museum

By the Caribbean Journal staff There’s a major new museum in the Mexican Caribbean. The Museo Frida Kahlo has expanded with a new museum in the beach town of Playa del Carmen on the Riviera Maya. The Museo Frida Kahlo Riviera Maya, which debuted earlier this summer, is located on Playa del Carmen’s always-bustling Quinta […]


5 Reasons to Visit Aruba This Summer

It’s the first of its kind in the Dominican Republic’s capital of Santo Domingo: a hotel-museum. The redesigned Hotel Beaterio is the latest addition to one of the gems of the Caribbean’s cultural offering, the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo. The hotel has reopened following a major renovation project, offering guests the chance to stay […]

The Caribbean’s Best New Art Museum Is at a Rum Distillery

It’s something that could only happen in Martinique, it seems — the Caribbean has a new cutting-edge contemporary art museum — and it’s at a rum distillery. This is the new Fondation Clement, a 25,400-square-foot contemporary art museum set at the legendary Habitation Clement, home to Rhum Clement. The museum, which had its grand opening this week, […]

Cancun Now Has a Wax Museum

Waxing Caribbean By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor What if we told you that on your next trip to Cancun we could guarantee that you’d see Nicole Kidman, Brad Pitt and Leonardi Da Vinci? No, we’re not delusional. We’re just clued in to the city by the sea’s newest attraction, the Cancun Wax Museum, which […]

A New Look at Haiti’s Top Museum

Above: the new interior garden at MUPANAH By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Musée du Panthéon National Haïtien, one of the Caribbean’s leading museums, has gotten a makeover. This week, the museum has completed the first phase of an extension project. The first phase includes a new interior “garden,” along with a gift boutique. Above: […]

In Miami, A Look at Caribbean Film

Above: a still from A Natural History 5 Sequence 2 By the Caribbean Journal staff Each Thursday this month, the Perez Art Museum Miami will be presenting a series of videos and films that “challenge conventional notions” of the Caribbean region. At the Crossroads: Critical Film and Video from the Caribbean, looks at “images and […]

Caribbean Art Exhibition Coming to Perez Art Museum Miami

Above: Arnoldo Roche Rabell, We Have to Dream in Blue, 1986. Collection of John T. Belk III and Margarita Serapion, Photo: Courtesy of Walter Otero Gallery By the Caribbean Journal staff A major Caribbean art exhibition is set to open at the Perez Art Museum Miami. Caribbean: Crossroads of the World, which first launched at […]

Jamaica Planning National Museum

Above: Kingston (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s government is moving to create a National Museum of Jamaica. Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna said a National Museum Foundation has already been established to support the museum, which would be located in Kingston. “I have already engaged key stakeholders, including past esteemed […]

Museum of Latin American, Caribbean Art Planned in Miami

Above: Gary Nader Fine Art in Miami’s Wynwood neighbourhood By the Caribbean Journal staff Noted art collector Gary Nader is planning to build what he is calling a “world-class” Latin American Art Museum in Miami, he announced Tuesday. In a statement, Nader said the museum aspired to be “most important venue in North America to […]