Barbados has its landmark historic places. The Garrison in Bridgetown, with its parade ground and UNESCO World Heritage designation, anchors the island’s story (including the George Washington House). St. Nicholas Abbey draws visitors with its centuries-old Jacobean mansion and rum estate history. Gun Hill’s signal station and lion statue still look out across the countryside […]
Above: St Croix (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Delta Airlines will be resuming service from Atlanta to St Croix, the US Virgin Islands Department of Tourism announced. The weekly Saturday flights from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport to St Croix’s Henry E Rohlsen Airport will run from Dec. 20, 2014 to May 10, 2015, […]
Above: a United Airlines plane By the Caribbean Journal staff United Airlines will be launching nonstop service from Washington, DC to Nassau, Bahamas, beginning in June, the company announced. The service, which will operate out of United’s hub at Washington-Dulles International Airport, will operate between June 7 and Aug. 17. Skywest will operate the United […]
Above: a Sunrise Airways Jetstream 32 By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Sunrise Airways will be launching new service from Port-au-Prince to Santo Domingo on Friday. The new carrier has received approval from Haiti’s Civil Aviation Authority and the Dominican Republic’s Junta de Aviacion to operate new charter flights between the neighbouring capitals on Hispaniola. […]
Above: a LIAT plane By the Caribbean Journal staff Caribbean air carrier LIAT is suspending its service to Nevis for the winter season, according to the Nevis Island Administration. The affected service is the Antigua-Nevis route. The NIA said it had received a letter from LIAT at the beginning of the month indicating that it […]
Above: JetBlue planes By the Caribbean Journal staff JetBlue isn’t done with its Caribbean expansion. The New York City-based carrier will be launching flights to Trinidad beginning in July 2014, according to Trinidad’s government. The news, rumoured for several months, was announced in the Budget Statement by Trinidad and Tobago Finance and Economy Minister Larry […]
Above: a Sunrise airways plane (Courtesy Sunrise Airways/SBPR) By the Caribbean Journal staff New air carrier Sunrise Airways says it has received permission to operate flights between Cuba and Haiti. The twice-weekly private service will operate between Port-au-Prince and Holguin. It is set to launch the service in the “early autumn” of 2013. It is […]
By the Caribbean Journal staff After the founder of the Caribbean Premier League said regional carrier LIAT cost the league “millions of dollars,” LIAT is now firing back. CPL Founder Ajmal Khan told the Barbados Sun that LIAT’s service was a “travesty,” and that LIAT-related travel woes had cost millions to the upstart league, due […]
Above: a rendering of the quake (USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 3.7-magnitude earthquake caused light shaking in western Puerto Rico on Wednesday evening, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, which occurred around 9:49 PM, struck about 25 kilometres west of Puerto Real and about 147 kilometres west-southwest of San Juan. […]
By Gregor Nassief Op-Ed Contributor Dear Directors: Re: Heads must roll I respectfully ask you, on behalf of the people of the Caribbean, and the people that visit the Caribbean, and especially on behalf of the people of Dominica who depend on LIAT for their travel and also for their tourism industry, to enforce significant […]
Above: a LIAT ATR By the Caribbean Journal staff LIAT has returned one of its new ATR planes to service after grounding it for technical issues. The ATR 72 had been grounded in Barbados for about a week due to a “technical issue that has now been resolved,” the company said in a statement. “Nothing […]
Above: an American Airlines plane By the Caribbean Journal staff American Airlines will be increasing its service from New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport to Antigua and Barbuda this fall. The carrier will be operating daily flights to Antigua from Nov. 21 to March 31, 2014. “As a major tourism destination, Antigua & Barbuda […]
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