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This Adults-Only Jamaica All-Inclusive Resort Just Reopened — With 401 Ocean-View Suites, a Rooftop Infinity Pool, and Overwater Bungalows

Jamaica’s north coast has its famous names, but there are still stretches that are under the radar — the kind of places you reach after the airport roads thin out, where the scenery turns greener, the shoreline deepens, and the island feels less like a resort corridor and more like Jamaica. It’s a bit off […]

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St Vincent, CDB to Launch $4.7 Million Anti-Poverty Project

Above: St Vincent By the Caribbean Journal staff St Vincent and the Grenadines and the Caribbean Development Bank are launching a $4.7 million project aimed at alleviating poverty, Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves announced. The Seventh Basic Needs Trust Fund Programme, called BNTF-7. will be launched at the Sunset Shores Hotel on June 11. The […]

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Earthquake Near St Vincent Causes Shaking in St Lucia

Above: a map of the quake (graphic: USGS) By the Caribbean Journal staff A 4.2-magnitude earthquake off the coast of St Vincent and the Grenadines caused shaking in St Lucia, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake occurred about 57 kilometres southeast of Biabou, and about 63 kilometres east-southeast of Kingstown. It struck […]

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Canada's Diane Ablonczy Begins Seven-Country Caribbean Tour

Above: Minister Diane Ablonczy By the Caribbean Journal staff Canada’s Minister of State of Foreign Affairs, Diane Ablonczy, has begun a seven-day, seven-country trip to the Caribbean. Ablonczy is currently in the Bahamas, which she will visit along with St Kitts and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and […]

Earthquake Near St Vincent Causes Shaking in St Lucia

Above: chocolate at Buccament Bay By the Caribbean Journal staff From St Lucia’s Boucan Hotel, Restaurant and Cocoa Plantation to the Graycliff Hotel in Nassau (which recently debuted its own chocolate factory), Caribbean hotels are increasingly upping their chocolate quotient. The latest entrant into the chocolate sector is the Buccament Bay in St Vincent and […]

LIAT Stakeholders Make Down Payment on Six New 50-Seat Planes

Above: a LIAT flight in Antigua By the Caribbean Journal staff The shareholder governments of regional air carrier LIAT have made the first down payment on six new 50-seat planes, according to St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves. The planes are being purchased as part of the company’s Fleet Renewal programme. […]

Eastern Caribbean Economies Contracted 0.1 Percent in 2012

Above: St Lucia By the Caribbean Journal staff Economic activity in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union fell in 2012 for the fourth consecutive year, according to Sir K Dwight Venner, President of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank. Real GDP in the ECCU, which comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia […]

Canada Waives Visa Exemptions for St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines

Above: Parliament in Ottawa By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government said it was “disappointed” following the decision by Canada’s government to impose visas for visitors from the country. Now, citizens of St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Namibia, Botswana and Swaziland require visas to travel to Canada, according to Citizenship, Immigration and […]

St Lucia to Expand Broadband Access

By the Caribbean Journal staff St Lucia’s government has approved access to a $6 million loan from the International Development Association to provide support for ICT and broadband in the country. The initiative will develop information and communication technologies through the Caribbean Regional Communications Infrastructure Programme. “Essentially, it is to increase access to the regional […]

iPhone 4S to Hit Caribbean Next Week

Above: the iPhone 4S (Photo courtesy of Apple) By the Caribbean Journal staff Apple’s iPhone 4S will be released across the Caribbean on Friday, Jan. 13, the company announced today. The company will begin a rollout in Anguilla, Antigua, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad […]

St Vincent Volcano "Not More Active"

Above: La Soufriere on Thursday (Photo: SVG) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Vincent and the Grenadines’ National Emergency Management Organization received a number of calls Thursday from citizens asking if the country’s La Soufriere volcano was erupting, with some accounts indicating odors of sulphur and smoke billowing from the volcano. But there is no […]

The Caribbean Year in Review

For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have chosen new leadership, with Jamaicans headed to the polls on Thursday. It was also the Year of Energy – with two countries, the Bahamas and Guyana, pursuing […]

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