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Montego Bay’s Airport Just Reopened for “Limited” Commercial Flights 

CEO Raúl Revuelta Musalem of @aeropuertosGAP arrived yesterday with a 22-member team to assess the impact before the reopening.

Just a few days after the passage of Hurricane Melissa, Jamaica’s primary air hub has reopened, Caribbean Journal has learned.  Montego Bay’s Sangster International Airport officially reopened Nov. 1 for limited commercial flights.  The airport’s reopening is a major boost for the island following the devastation wrought by Melissa, which was concentrated in the western […]

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The Perfect Recipe for Caribbean Curried Vegetables

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Living a plant-based lifestyle eventually gets your fridge overloaded from time to time with random fruits, vegetables, condiments and the occasional exotic ingredient. By the time I get back to them from when they were hastily shoved in the fridge from my too numerous retail therapy sessions, they may be well on their way to […]

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Chef Nigel Spence's Recipe for a No-Fail Holiday Turkey

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Rather than bore you with only the latest recipe for this year’s turkey, I will simply pull back the curtains and guide you with all the tips and tricks that I have used over the years in the restaurant to quickly and effortlessly produce great roasted birds for the holiday table. These tips minimize the […]

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Nigel Spence’s Perfect Pasta Recipe

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This recipe is a game-changer for weeknight dinners.  It looks and tastes as if you spent all day cooking it, but it actually is quite quick and simple.  It also solves the issue of what to do with a bumper crop of any vegetables you may have from your summer garden, or even leftovers hanging […]


Chef Nigel Spence's Recipe for a No-Fail Holiday Turkey

A fresh and delightful way to enjoy the summer heat is with this easy octopus recipe. Many people are very intimidated by the idea of cooking octopus but it is actually really easy to master. Simply start with a great product and the rest will be quite easy. Most large octopi need nothing more than […]

A Recipe for Jamaican Cucumber Salad

With the Paleo diet gaining even more momentum moving into the new year, there is a constant search for new and interesting side dishes that are not heavily processed to accompany the main dishes at the table. This recipe looks and tastes exciting and is a refreshing accompaniment to grilled meats and fish. It lightens […]

Nigel Spence: A Recipe for Roasted Cho Cho

With Spring in the air, we tend to lighten up on the heavy winter meals to shed those pounds in anticipation of the great unveiling of the summer fashion and the body that fits in them. I start leaning heavily toward plant-based dishes with a little pop of color to match the incoming season. While […]

Nigel Spence: How to Make Salted Codfish Cookup From Jamaica

Salted Codfish is ubiquitous in the Caribbean kitchen, but we rarely find it being consumed fresh. Fresh codfish is  worlds away from salted cod in texture and taste having a very flaky, tender meat and mild flavor. It is the fish of choice for the famed pub dish “fish and chips” for that very reason. […]

Nigel Spence: From Jamaica, Mom's Recipe for Brown Stewed Chicken

With the pandemic overload and the underlying depression accompanying it, and with take-out options so underwhelming these days, it makes me yearn for the elaborate old school dishes my mom would prepare even during the week.  Especially those on the days when I was home sick from school. I find myself in the kitchen doing […]

Curried Cabbage, the Perfect Caribbean Vegan Recipe

Sometimes trying to stick with a vegan diet, you can hit a wall trying to come up with new and exciting things to cook. Today was one of those days for me.  It didn’t help that my fridge and cupboards were like Old Mother Hubbard’s, so there wasn’t much to choose from either. A giant […]

Nigel Spence: The Recipe for the Perfect Pig

This year, with the pandemic and shutdowns in place, I finally got around to reading a lot more of the trade magazines I have piled up in my desk and revisiting so many recipes and notes I have jotted down hastily for future use, that sometimes never gets past that point-as life sometimes gets in […]

How to Make Paella, Caribbean Style

So much of the seafood we eat today is farm raised on crappy diets with all kinds of additives, hormones antibiotics etc. that when I saw some wild shrimp from the ocean along with some octopus from Spain available, I grabbed them up and decided to make a ginormous pot of Caribbean rice.  I guess […]