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For the First Time in 20 Years, You Can Fly Nonstop From Tampa to Nassau in The Bahamas

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Tampa just got a whole lot closer to Nassau. For the first time in two decades, travelers can fly nonstop between Tampa International Airport and Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, The Bahamas — restoring a long-dormant Florida Gulf Coast gateway to the Bahamian capital that has been missing from the airlift map since the […]

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Caribbean Airspace Reopens and Flights "Can Resume"

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Caribbean airspace is fully open again for flights, Caribbean Journal has learned. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy confirmed that the temporary restrictions expired at 12AM on Sunday morning. “Flights can resume. Airlines are informed, and will update their schedules quickly. Please continue to work with your airline if your flight was affected by the restrictions,” […]

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The Best Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad Has a Sushi Bar, Ocean Views, and a Rooftop Infinity Pool

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Angostura 1919 at the Waterfront. Tekka don at the sushi bar. Warm greetings from the staff as the city hums outside. I arrive in Port of Spain and the Hyatt Regency feels like exactly what I was looking for — a place that balances the buzz of Trinidad’s capital with the calm of a waterfront […]

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25 Perfect Caribbean Beaches to Add to Your Summer Bucket List

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There’s nothing like a Caribbean beach in summer. The crowds thin out, the winds relax, and the islands start breathing in a different way. The beaches you thought you knew feel new again— stretches of sand once packed with winter crowds now stretch wide open, waiting just for you. It’s the time when the Caribbean […]


The Best Hotel in Port of Spain, Trinidad Has a Sushi Bar, Ocean Views, and a Rooftop Infinity Pool

From Port of Spain to Tobago’s quiet coasts, these are the places to check in now No two Caribbean islands are quite like Trinidad and Tobago—and no two hotels here feel the same. This is a destination of contrast: Carnival and cocoa, skyscrapers and palm trees, coral reef and cosmopolitan rhythm. Here, business travelers and […]

How the Caribbean Film Industry Is Taking Center Stage at Cannes

The energy, artistry, and opportunity of the Caribbean film industry is taking the spotlight in Cannes. This year is seeing the the festival’s first-ever Caribbean Day, which is putting the spotlight on the region’s growing film industry. The event was held this week at Pavillon Afriques, the Cannes Film Festival’s hub dedicated to African and […]

Hilton Is Coming to a New Caribbean Island: Tobago

The Nylon Pool. The Caribbean’s oldest rainforest. The curry crab. Tobago is one of the region’s great undiscovered destinations, and it’s going to soon find itself on the travel map in a major way.  Hilton is expanding its Caribbean footprint with the debut of a new resort in Tobago – but it’s not coming quite […]

This Trinidad Beach Has Golden Sand, Green Hills, and the Country’s Most Famous Sandwich

Golden sand. Beach shacks and cold beer. Perfect street food.  Maracas Beach isn’t just the best beach on the island of Trinidad. It’s the best place on the whole island. The sand is perfect, a coastline edged by Trinidad’s verdant green hills. The palms are straight out of a Corona commercial, angled and friendly. And then […]

Caribbean Airlines Is Expanding Its Miami-Trinidad Flights This Summer 

The corn soup. The doubles. Angostura. Cricket. Port of Spain is one of the more dynamic urban destinations in the wider region, and that includes in the summer months.  Now, Trinidad’s own Caribbean Airlines is expanding its flights to the capital this summer, with two additional frequencies between Miami and Port of Spain.  Caribbean Airlines […]

The New LIAT Just Added Another Caribbean Island: Trinidad

Bake ’n shark, doubles, cricket, carnival, Maracas. There’s no place in the Caribbean quite like Trinidad, and now it’s a bit easier to get there. Fast-expanding regional carrier Liat 20 has added Trinidad as the newest Caribbean island in its network.  The relaunched LIAT officially kicked off its newest route to Trinidad on Thursday, with […]

Machel Montano, the Caribbean’s Biggest Soca Superstar, Just Made His “Tiny Desk” Debut 

He’s one of the Caribbean’s biggest music stars: Machel Montano, the Trinidadian artist who is arguably the biggest soca star in the world.  And now Montano has made his way to one of the hottest “stages” in the music world right now: NPR’s “Tiny Desk.” The popular digital concert series takes global music sensations and […]

Caribbean Airlines Now Has Its Own Rum Punch 

It’s the biggest party in the Caribbean: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival, which runs every year in the twin-island destination.  And now Trinidad-based Caribbean Airlines is getting into the fun with a creative new addition to celebrate the island-wide fete: its own rum punch.  It’s called the Caribbean Iere Mix, and it’s a ru punch that […]