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Orient-Express Hotels to Rebrand Under “Belmond” Name
Above: La Samanna in St Martin By the Caribbean Journal staff Orient-Express Hotels has annnounced that it will be marketing its hotel collection under a new brand called “Belmond.” The change, which will take effect beginning March 10, is being […]
Bermuda’s Elbow Beach, Mandarin Oriental Parting Ways
Above: the Elbow Beach Bermuda Resort By the Caribbean Journal staff The Elbow Beach Hotel & Development Company will be taking over management at the Elbow Beach, Bermuda resort when the management contract of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group expires later […]
In Punta Cana, a Pair of New Hyatt All-Inclusive Hotels
Hyatt’s newest all-inclusive hotels have held their grand openings in the heart of Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic. Playa Hotels and Resorts has debuted the new Hyatt-branded Ziva and Zilara resorts in Punta Cana’s tony enclave of Cap Cana. […]
Jamaica’s Half Moon Names New GM
Above: Half Moon in Jamaica By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaica’s Half Moon, A Rock Resort, has named Sandro Fabris its new general manager. Fabris comes to the hotel with more than two decades of experience, including serving as regional […]
Caribbean Plate: New Executive Chef at Gansevoort Turks and Caicos
Above: the Gansevoort Turks and Caicos By the Caribbean Journal staff The Gansevoort Turks and Caicos hotel has named Mahdi Eghnam its new executive chef. Eghnam will be part of a new culinary team, along with food and beverage director […]
St Martin’s La Samanna Resort Reopens After Completing Renovations
Above: La Samanna (Photos by Orient Express) By Alexander Britell The La Samanna resort property in St Martin has reopened following extensive renovations, according to Orient-Express. The property recently completed the second phase of renovations, which brought two new restaurants, […]
The Caribbean’s Premier Film Festival Is Back
The Caribbean’s premier film festival has made its triumphant return to the island of St Barth. The beloved Saint Barth Film Festival “Cinema Caraibes” is back May 4-7, 2022. It’s the first time the event has been held since the […]
This is the Coolest Hotel in Tortola
There’s a lot that’s great about Cane Garden Bay in Tortola: a beautiful coastline, lively beach bars, a cool historic distillery, and even a bit of nightlife in a destination — the British Virgin Islands — that’s more known for […]
The 50 Best Restaurants in the Caribbean – 2021
Restaurants are about more than just food. When we go out to eat, we aren’t doing so because we have to — we do it because we want to. Because restaurants make our lives more interesting. They break up the […]
The Caribbean Boutique Hotel Awards – 2019
It began with an idea. An idea to celebrate the jewels of the Caribbean hotel industry, the smaller, more intimate spaces through which hoteliers express their dreams, their personalities and their visions for what hospitality can be. And now the […]
LVMH Is Buying Belmond for $3.2 Billion in Luxury Hotel Market Shakeup
By the Caribbean Journal staff In a move sure to shake up the global luxury hotel market, luxury group LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton has announced an agreement to acquire hotel brand Belmond. The purchase of Belmond shares represented an […]
Crystal Redeploying Luxury Yacht to the Caribbean
Crystal Yacht Expedition Cruises is redeploying its ultra-luxury yacht to the Caribbean. The Crystal Esprit will head to the Caribbean in November 2017 and all of 2018. The redeployment of the boutique 62-guest yacht comes after what the company said […]
Op-Ed: Caribbean Climate Change: What’s Next?
By George Nicholson and Nnyeka Prescod Op-Ed Contributors There is rising anxiety amongst island nations as the effects of the continuous warming of the earth become more evident on our physical environment. The negative impacts arising from changes in weather […]
Helping Haitian Futures
A focus on health By Kenny Moise Op-Ed Contributor Across the globe, the number of migrants has risen in the recent years. This phenomenon is exacerbated by the growing poverty in regions like Sub-Saharan Africa and wars in others like […]
Jamaica and the World
Jamaica’s diplomatic future By David P Rowe Op-Ed Contributor Now that Jamaica has benefitted from a Presidential visit by the United States’ Barack Obama, what is next for the country? And what should be next for Jamaica’s relationship with the […]
How Tourism Saves Jamaica
By David P Rowe Op-Ed Contributor During the recent Greek debt crisis, commentators have been referring to Jamaica as an example of another country with a huge debt burden. This is true — Jamaica’s gross public debt hovers higher than […]
The 50 Best Caribbean Beach Bars
It may seem like a list of 50 beach bars is a lot. But when we finished compiling this momentous list, we weren’t even breathing hard. That’s because the Caribbean is the beach bar capital of Planet Earth, and we […]
Trade and Caribbean Development
By Alberto Duran and Kariyma Baltimore Op-Ed Contributors Discussions surrounding the link between trade and development have been numerous. Economists; Development Practitioners; Academia; and Policy Makers have all made significant contributions to the trade and development discourse. The positive impact […]
St Martin’s Belmond La Samanna Names New General Manager
Above: Belmond La Samanna in St Martin By the Caribbean Journal staff The Belmond La Samanna resort in St Martin has named Michael SChoonewagen as its new general manager. Schoonewagen comes to the property after nearly five years at the […]
Rethinking Caribbean Tourism Education
By Ryan Peterson Op-Ed Contributor It is no secret that sustainable tourism is imperative to the wealth and wellness of Caribbean island economies. From ‘green’ to ‘eco’, ‘small’ to ‘slow’, ‘responsible’ to ‘resilient’, there is no shortage of ideas nor […]
Op-Ed: Gender Equality in Jamaica
By Wayne Campbell Op-Ed Contributor “GENDER EQUALITY is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.” — Kofi Annan. Former UN Secretary General. Historically, […]
Op-Ed: Toward A New Trajectory For Caribbean Development
By Keston K Perry Op-Ed Contributor With the untimely passing of Norman Girvan, the last Caribbean political economist of the earlier critical tradition, a major gap in radical ideas needs to be filled. These ideas must come from a new […]
The Caribbean’s Best Hotels For Food
Some countries are culinary destinations; some islands are culinary destinations; and some hotels are culinary destinations. The Caribbean is full of such hotel properties — the ones that view cuisine as integral to hospitality (and sometimes even more than that). These […]
The Caribbean’s Best Hotels For Design
WHEN IT comes to the quality of a hotel, what’s under the surface counts — service, culture, food. But the way a hotel is thought out, the way it’s put together structurally and the way it simply looks, all make a […]
Interview With Grenada Tourism Minister Alexandra Otway-Noel
Above: Grenada Tourism Minister Alexandra Otway-Noel (CJ Photo) By Alexander Britell MONTEGO BAY — Grenada is continuing its push to promote tourism, with a brand-new marketing campaign and a focus on positioning the country as a kind of high-end, eco-tourism […]
Building Caribbean Data Journalism
By Gerard Best Op-Ed Contributor INTERNET USERS are bombarded daily with a vast world of digital content via news feeds, blogs, webcasts, live streams, image galleries, videoclips and sound bites. Access to huge information repositories is no longer restricted by […]
Op-Ed: The Y Youth – A Personal Reflection on Cuban Blogs
By Ylena Zamora-Vargas Op-Ed Contributor THEY PREFER speaking English to Spanish, they feel as American as a McDonald’s Big Mac, and they are tired of the insistent preoccupation their parents’ generation has with the current regime. But when second-generation, third-generation, […]
Op-Ed: A Diaspora Policy for St Lucia
By Bertram Leon Op-Ed Contributor OVER THE PAST DECADE, we have been witnessing a growing number of countries becoming interested in revisiting, refreshing and rebuilding relations with their overseas populations. A contemporary subject of public policy, referred to as […]
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