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Barbados Is Getting a New Marriott All-Inclusive With a Rooftop Pool, Swim-Up Rooms, and an Open-Air Art Studio

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The west coast of Barbados has never lacked for high-end resorts. What it hasn’t really had is the kind of energy-forward, design-led property that feels tuned to how younger, adult travelers actually are moving through vacations right now now. The Platinum Coast has long leaned classic and composed. The “Platinum Coast” has always been the […]

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Direct Mail From the US to Cuba?

Above: Havana By the Caribbean Journal staff It’s been 50 years since there was direct mail service between the United States and Cuba. That could soon change, thanks to discussions between the two countries. A Cuban delegation held talks Monday with a delegation from the United States Postal Service to continue talks on the resumption […]

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Cayman Islands, United States Conclude Talks on FATCA Law

Above: Georgetown (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff The Cayman Islands and the United States have concluded talks on an intergovernmental agreement and a new tax information exchange agreement. Both pave the way for an automatic exchange of information under the US’ new Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. A Cayman Islands government statement said […]

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Grenada PM Visits United States

Above: Grenada Prime Minister Keith Mitchell (UN Photo/Mark Garten) By the Caribbean Journal staff Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell is currently in the United States for a series of visits with members of the country’s diaspora. On Saturday, he met with Grenadians in New York City, his first official visit to New York since […]

Cayman Islands, United States Conclude Talks on FATCA Law

Above: Chris Wondolowski By the Caribbean Journal staff Cuba fell to the United States, 4-1, in a Gold Cup match on Saturday in Utah. Cuba’s footballers struck first in the game, with Jose Nieto Martinez putting one home in the 36th minute, but the US rebounded to score four unanswered goals. They were led by […]

Haiti Ratifies Investment Incentive Agreement With United States

Above: Haiti (CJ Photo) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti’s Parliament has ratified an Investment Incentive Agreement with the United States’ Overseas Private Investment Corporation. The agreement, which was officially ratified last month during a special joint session of Parliament, “streamlines OPIC’s ability to support US companies’ investments that contribute to the economic development of […]

Belize, Cuba Fall in Gold Cup

 Above: Belize’s footballers (FP) By the Caribbean Journal staff Belize and Cuba each suffered defeats on Tuesday in their Gold Cup opening matches. Belize fell to the United States, 6-1, while Cuba lost to Costa Rica, 3-0. The United States’ Chris Wondolowski scored a hat trick to lead the United States, while Belize’s only goal […]

Cuba Courts Japanese Tourists

Above: Cuba By the Caribbean Journal staff Travel agents in Japan have begun a major promotional campaign for tourism to Cuba. The campaign was officially launched by Marcos Rodriguez, Cuba’s Ambassador in Tokyo, along with Jungo Kikuma, the president of the Travel Agents Association of Japan. While travel from the United States remains possible only […]

China and the Caribbean — a Marriage Made in Heaven?

By Zhivargo Laing CJ Contributor ON A recent radio show in the Bahamas, the topic of China’s $8 million loan to the country was being discussed. A curious caller asked, “what do the Chinese want for these loans anyway?” Her question is probably repeated in the minds of many Caribbean people and it deserves an […]

Vanderpool-Wallace: The United States of the Caribbean

 By Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace CJ Contributor IN THE MIDDLE of musing about regional cooperation, tourism Ministers and Commissioners were recently invited to imagine a gestalt entity, “the United States of the Caribbean.” They were invited to consider what such an entity would look like. Thomas Sowell has written extensively about the achievements of people from the […]

United States Defeats Jamaica's Reggae Boyz in 2-1 Thriller

 Above: Independence Park By the Caribbean Journal staff Things were looking brighter when Jamaica’s Jermaine Beckford evened the score at 1 with a goal in the 89th minute. The United States’ Jozy Altidore had put the US ahead in the 30th minute, a lead it had held for another 59 minutes. But just like that, […]

Trinidad, US to Set Up Green Energy Centre at University of West Indies

 Above: the University of the West Indies St Augustine By the Caribbean Journal staff Trinidad and Tobago and the United States will jointly establish a Renewable Energy Research Centre at the University of the West Indies St Augustine campus, the two countries announced Tuesday. The centre is the product of a Memorandum of Understanding signed […]

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