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American Airlines Is Adding Three Daily Flights to This Bahamas Paradise of Sandbars, Swimming Pigs, and Empty Beaches

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The water curls around a white sandbar, spreading into shades of turquoise so vivid they almost seem invented. A few miles away, yachts gather near a tiny cay, their hulls suspended above the sea. Beyond them, an empty beach waits behind a stretch of shallow water, with no footprints and no buildings in sight. This […]

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Delta Adds More Flights From San Juan Ahead of Maria

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By the Caribbean Journal staff Delta has added two extra flights to and from San Juan to Atlanta this week ahead of the expected arrival of Hurricane Maria, the company announced. Delta is flying 757 and Airbus A321 aircraft from the island. Delta has also capped main cabin, one-way nonstop fares at $199 for flights […]

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Turks and Caicos’ Sands, Shore Club, Palms Reopening This Month

By the Caribbean Journal staff Hurricane Irma passed through the Turks and Caicos last week, but the island of Providenciales was spared some of Irma’s wrath. Indeed, some of the island’s top resorts are already planning to reopen this month. Hartling Group Resorts, which has three of the island’s leading resorts, has announced a timetable […]

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Bahamasair Returns to Normal Operations

By the Caribbean Journal staff Bahamian national carrier Bahamasair has returned to normal operations, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. The carrier has resumed normal scheduled service to all of its destinations. That includes its flights to the United States, Haiti and the Turks and Caicos Islands and of course within the islands […]


Turks and Caicos’ Sands, Shore Club, Palms Reopening This Month

By the Caribbean Journal staff After pummeling much of the northeastern Caribbean approached Cuba and the Bahamas on Friday, weakening slightly to a Category 4 storm. Maximum sustained winds were down to around 150 mph, a drop from the 185 mph that marked the storm at its peak in the Leeward Islands. On Friday morning, […]

The Caribbean's Best Micro-Hotels

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor There are small hotels and then there are really small hotels; petit boutiques with five rooms or fewer, where you’re welcomed like family but treated like a visiting dignitary. In the Caribbean (as in the rest of the world) such sanctuaries aren’t easy to find. But we’ve zeroed in […]

Hurricane Irma Makes Landfall in the Caribbean

By the Caribbean Journal staff Hurricane Irma made landfall in the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands on Tuesday evening and early Wednesday morning as a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane. Irma thrashed Barbuda with 185-mph winds before making landfall in St Barth and St Martin this morning with massive winds and flooding. While the eye of the […]

The 10 Best Caribbean Wellness Resorts

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon CJ Travel Editor Sometimes, when everyday stresses threaten to dim our dazzle, what we really need is a restorative getaway, a few days devoted to our physical and emotional health in an idyllic location. If that sounds like the remedy for what ails you, check out this list of the top 10 […]

Sandals to Open Beaches Resort in Barbados

Sandals Resorts International is continuing its rapid Caribbean expansion with another major project in Barbados. Sandals is planning to open a new Beaches Barbados in the summer of 2020, Sandals Chairman Gordon “Butch” Stewart confirmed to Caribbean Journal through a spokesperson. The Beaches Barbados project will be a dramatic transformation of the island’s Almond Beach […]

Turks and Caicos Villa Sells for $17 Million

A villa on the Parrot Cay private island in the Turks and Caicos Islands has sold for $17 million, according to Turks and Caicos Sotheby’s International Realty, which handled the transaction. The Serenity Villa is set on 5.38 acres and 373 feet of white sand beachfront with 8,645 interior square feet. I It’s serviced by […]

5 Caribbean Getaways for Labor Day 2017

By Alexander Britell It isn’t the longest vacation of the year, but it’s one of the most important: Labor Day, the summer travel season’s exclamation point. Maybe you block out a three-day weekend, or add on a few extra days. It may not be the week-long (or longer) Caribbean vacation you usually take, but that […]

Caribbean Photo of the Week: North Caicos

The latest Caribbean Photo comes from Caribbean Journal reader Mollie Clark, who sent in this lovely photo of the island of North Caicos in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Have you taken a great photo in the Caribbean? Send it to news@caribjournal.com with CPOTW in the subject line, including your first and last name and […]