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JetBlue CEO Stepping Down
Longtime JetBlue CEO Robin Hayes is stepping down. Robin Hayes, who has served as CEO of the New York City-based carrier since 2015, said he is retiring to “put more focus on my health and well-being.” Hayes will be succeeded […]
Carnival CEO Arnold Donald Is Stepping Down
Arnold Donald, the president and CEO of Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest cruise company, is stepping down. The company announced that, effective Aug. 1, Donald would be appointed Vice Chair and member of the cruise company’s board of directors. Josh […]
Cayman Tourism Director Stepping Down
Above: the Cayman Islands By the Caribbean Journal staff Cayman Islands Director of Tourism Shomari Scott will be leaving his post at the end of this year. Scott, who had served in the department since 2002, will officially leave Dec. […]
Winston Dookeran Steps Down as Head of Trinidad’s Congress of the People
Trinidad Finance Minister Winston Dookeran, the political leader of the Congress of the People party in Trinidad, announced he would be stepping down from his role. Dookeran took the top spot in the party in 2006 after leaving the UMC. […]
In St Martin, the Legacy of a Legendary Caribbean Hotelier
My favorite anecdote about the Grand Case Beach Club was when a guest came up to Wright during happy hour and told him how disappointed he was that he couldn’t find a room. He bemoaned that he would have to […]
Longtime British Virgin Islands Tourism Director “Hanging Up Her Shoes”
One of the Caribbean’s leading directors of tourism is “hanging up her shoes” later this year. Sharon Flax-Brutus, who has served as the Director of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board and Film Commission for eight years, is stepping down […]
Marriott Names New Leadership for Caribbean, Latin America
The retirement of Marriott’s Group President for the Americas has led to a new leadership structure for the company’s international lodging business. After 36 years with Marriott, Dave Grissen is stepping down as group president for the Americas, the company […]
Cuba’s Raul Castro Announces Plans to Retire in 2018
Above: Raul Castro (Photo: AIN Cuba) By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba President Raul Castro, who was chosen to serve a new term Sunday, will be leaving politics in 2018 when this term expires, he announced. The announcement came after […]
Douglas: St Kitts and Nevis Debt Will Be Among Region’s “Most Sustainable”
Above: Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas (Photo: Erasmus Williams) By the Caribbean Journal staff St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas is calling the acceptance of an exchange offer to restructure the country’s external debt “a historic day […]
Bloomberg Hosts Jamaica Trade Forum
By the Caribbean Journal staff Jamaican political and business leaders recently took center stage at a trade and investment forum at Bloomberg’s international headquarters in New York City, in an event coordinated by Dr Geneive Brown Metzger, Jamaica’s Consul General […]
Jamaican Minister Robertson Resigns
Following the news that the United States had cancelled his U.S. visa, Jamaica Energy and Mining Minister James Robertson has resigned, with the future of his involvement with the Jamaica Labour Party in doubt. “I am not stepping down from […]
Exuma’s Historic Peace & Plenty Hotel Sold
By the Caribbean Journal staff The venerable Peace & Plenty hotel on Great Exuma in the Bahamas has been sold, Caribbean Journal has learned. Miami-based boutique hotel owner-operators, Jesper & Gustaf Arnoldsson of SMS Lodging, have partnered with long time […]
An Evening in Marigot
One night in the French Caribbean By Alexander Britell MARIGOT —Just the hum of a generator and the distant chirp of a coqui frog. This was low season in Marigot, that forgotten Caribbean capital often overshadowed by its cruise hub neighbor, […]
Where is Jamaica’s Private Sector?
By Dennis Chung CJ Contributor LAST year I sat on a panel to discuss the state of the economy. Someone in the audience correctly stated that much work was being done by the government to improve the business and economic […]
9 Ways to Enjoy Bonaire By Land
By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor BONAIRE — With a whopping 89 dive sites, 350 species of fish, and 57 types of coral, Bonaire is a bonafide diver’s paradise. But you don’t have to go deep to appreciate it. Here […]
The Caribbean Community Has a Plan. But Does It Have Leaders?
By Michael W Edghill CJ Contributor IN JULY of this year, Caricom outlined its strategic plan designed to promote and strengthen the supranational organization and enhance its position in ever-changing global relations. The overview, made available through the website of […]
St Vincent and the Grenadines to Receive $6.4M IMF Disbursement
Above: St Vincent (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The International Monetary Fund’s Executive Board has approved a $6.4 million disbursement to St Vincent and the Grenadines, the organization announced Friday. The funding will be drawn from a Rapid […]
10 Caribbean Hotels You Can Fly To
IT’S PERHAPS the ultimate Caribbean arrival: gliding onto the water on a seaplane, stepping on the dock and walking right to your hotel room — or doing the same in a helicopter. Well, you can make just such an entrance at […]
Interview with British Virgin Islands Tourism Director Sharon Flax-Mars
Above: BVI By Alexander Britell The British Virgin Islands received approximately 302,647 tourist arrivals in 2012, essentially unchanged from the previous year. Seeking to improve on those numbers, the BVI hired a new director of tourism, Sharon Flax-Mars, a 25-year […]
Sea Turtles — a Special Kind of Tourist at the Four Seasons Nevis
Above: the Four Seasons Resort in Nevis (All photos by CJ) By Alexander Britell NEVIS — IT’S LATE EVENING, and Pinney has arrived in Nevis by sea. After a warm greeting to the island, she is shepherded by VIP transport […]
On the Ground: Journalism Ethics in Haiti
By Kathie Klarreich A few months into my Knight International Journalism Fellowship in Haiti, I was conducting a training session in a radio newsroom in the capital when a reporter danced through the open door. He proudly announced that he’d […]
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