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15 Caribbean Beaches Where You Can Go Snorkeling Straight From the Sand

The Baths in Virgin Gorda.

You don’t always need a boat to find the Caribbean you dream about. Some of the region’s clearest water and most colorful reefs sit just beyond the shoreline, close enough that all you have to do is step off the sand, lower your mask and let the sea take over. These are the beaches where […]

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St Lucia Begins Recovery Work

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia has launched a series of recovery efforts following the floods that impacted the country over the Christmas Holiday. The government said it has embarked on a group of “intense infrastructural works” around the island to ensure that affected areas remain accessible. The country’s Castries-Vieux Fort […]

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St Lucia Says "Open For Business" Following Flooding

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia is “open for business” following heavy flooding that caused significant damage and at least five deaths in the country this week, Tourism Minister Lorne Theophilus said Thursday. “The tourist industry is sound,” Theophilus said following a meeting with Director of Tourism Louis Lewis and St […]

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Death Toll Rises From Heavy Flooding in Eastern Caribbean

Above: Trinidad PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar is sending aid to the affected areas By the Caribbean Journal staff The death toll from a series of storms in the Eastern Caribbean has continued to rise, according to government officials. The storms, which were focused in St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Dominica, have caused at […]


St Lucia Says "Open For Business" Following Flooding

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia is seeing an increase in traffic from its largest tourist source market, the government said this week. So far this year, arrivals from the United States are up 12 percent through the first 11 months of 2013, with a total of 116,982. In November, the […]

A Boost For Entrepreneurs in St Lucia

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government will be implementing a $925,925 grant to support business incubation and training in the area of information and communication technology. The funding, which is under the auspices of the Caribbean Regional Infrastructure Programme (CARCIP), will support efforts to “nurture local innovation,” the government said. […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: Anse Chastanet in St Lucia

The latest Caribbean Photo of the Week comes from CJ reader Robi Das, who took this snapshot at Anse Chastanet on the island of St Lucia. Do you have a great photo of the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with “Caribbean Photo of the Week” in the subject line. It could be the next CPOTW! […]

St Lucia Minister Urges CARICOM to Step Up Climate Change Commitment

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucian Minister Dr James Fletcher is urging CARICOM Heads of Government to step up their level of action on climate change issues. Fletcher, who is St Lucia’s Minister for Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology, recently returned from the Warsaw Climate Change Conferene. “The Caribbean, I […]

St Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago Hold Talks on Creative Sector

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia Tourism Minister Lorne Theophilus held talks this week with delegates from Trinidad and Tobago’s Ministry of the Arts and Multiculturalism to discuss issues in the development of the creative sector. The Minister said the purpose of the meeting was to “give officials from both territories […]

Taiwan Continues Financial Support For St Lucia

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff Taiwan is continuing its financial support to St Lucia with a $775,436 grant for the government’s capital programme. The grant, which works out to EC $2 million, will target projects including the lighting of the Phillip Marcellin Grounds in Vieux-Fort and several other playing fields; the construction […]

A New Beach Bar in St Lucia

Above: the Naked Fisherman Beach Bar & Grill in St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia has its newest beach bar, with the opening of the Naked Fisherman Beach Bar & Grill at the Cap Maison resort. The new bar is located on the property’s Smuggler’s Cove beach. It’s the brainchild of Chef […]

Thomas Cook Makes First St Lucia Flight

Above: the inaugural flight from Manchester By the Caribbean Journal staff The first Thomas Cook flight from Manchester touched down in St Lucia on Sunday afternoon, the first of the charter carrier’s new nonstop flights to the island. Fly Thomas Cook is operating weekly Sunday flights on a specially-configured Airbus A330, leaving Manchester at 7:00 […]