On St. Maarten, the beach bar is usually a pay-as-you-go affair — a chair, a bucket of beers, maybe a grilled fish sandwich when the mood strikes. Big Bastard’s quietly turns that familiar rhythm on its head. Right on the sand in Simpson Bay, the irreverently named beach club has introduced something you almost never […]
Above: a VI Airlink plane By the Caribbean Journal staff There is a new way to get from Antigua to the British Virgin Islands. The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board announced this week that VI Airlink would be launching new VIP air service to connect with the arrival and departure of British Airways and Virgin […]
Above: Haiti (Photo: MT Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti is reporting a significant increase in tourist arrivals, according to data from the Caribbean Tourism Organization. The country welcomed 299,646 stopover arrivals in the first nine months of 2013, a 17.9 percent year-over-year increase compared to the same period in 2012. The data did […]
Above: the former Sonesta in Bermuda By the Caribbean Journal staff The site of the former Sonesta Hotel in Bermuda has been sold, according to global brokerage Jones Lang LaSalle, which handled the transaction with Bermuda’s Rego Sotheby’s International Realty. The 32-acre site was purchased by Peter, Alexander and Andrew Green from a US-based financial […]
