Author: Nevis News
In just a few days, on March 31st, the ban on single-use plastics in St. Kitts and Nevis officially kicks in. While government officials like Senator Dr. Joyelle Clarke pat themselves on the back for what they claim is a “multi-year journey” toward sustainability, the rest of us are left scratching our heads — or worse, struggling to figure out how to carry our groceries without a pile of soggy paper bags or overpriced “eco” totes that can’t even fit a breadfruit. Let’s call it what it is: this ban is out of touch, half-baked, and ultimately harmful to ordinary…
San Juan has all the time had one of the vital thrilling meals scenes within the Caribbean, with a dynamic culinary motion that’s catapulted a variety of cooks to stardom, from Jose Enrique to Mario Pagan. And now Puerto Rico’s capital has a significant new restaurant from full-fledged celebrity: Chef Michael White. The legendary Michelin-starred, James Beard Award-winning chef has formally opened his latest Caribbean restaurant on the La Concha resort in Condado. It’s referred to as Levant, and it’s a Mediterranean fusion spot with a deal with native produce and recent seafood: suppose dishes like bluefin tuna crudo, fusilli…
A speakeasy. A rum membership. A faucet room. A noodle bar. These aren’t the primary belongings you consider whenever you dream up even essentially the most artistic all-inclusive resort. For the most recent all-inclusive model within the Caribbean, that’s exactly the purpose. In lower than a month, the W Resorts model is stepping into the all-inclusive house, and it’s an thrilling new entry to the ultra-competitive market within the Dominican Republic. The brand new W Punta Cana could have most of the signatures that first catapulted the model into the pantheon of boutique-style, city resorts: the Moist Deck, the Residing…
It’s been nearly three years since Sandals first opened its resort in Curacao, the property debut that just about single-handedly modified the sport for tourism on the Dutch Caribbean island. And Curacao has been hotter than ever, with greater than 700,000 stayover guests final 12 months and a really sturdy begin to 2025, as Caribbean Journal reported. Now, with continued record-breaking tourism arrivals, native officers are working to be sure that as its development continues, it’s executed in a sustainable manner. Curacao has launched a brand new partnership with Sustainable Journey Worldwide and the George Washington College Worldwide Institute of…
It’s one of the crucial essential epicenters within the Caribbean: the neighborhood of islands surrounding St Maarten, from Saba to Statia, Anguilla to St Barth within the northeastern nook of the area. It’s a community of locations all centered on the Princess Juliana Worldwide Airport, the area’s most important air hub, and it varieties a various, wealthy tapestry of locations to go to, all with distinctive identities and choices, cultures, languages and merchandise. That’s what makes St Maarten’s SMART commerce present so essential: it brings them collectively. For the week of March 31, all of those locations, joined by hoteliers,…
The seashores. The rum outlets. The purchasing. The flying fish. Barbados has considerable charms, and what many vacationers could not understand is that the island can also be house to a lot of high-quality, intimate all-inclusive resort choices (together with newly-upgraded accommodations like Treasure Seaside and Tamarind). Subsequent 12 months, the island is getting one other one: the Royalton CHIC Barbados, which is ready on the island’s west coast and would be the latest Caribbean outpost for Royalton’s enjoyable, adults-only CHIC model. Now you can ebook rooms as early as August 2026, based on Royalton’s web site, Caribbean Journal has…
Bonaire has restricted nonstop flights from the US. The Dominican Republic has hundreds. A brand new flight between the Dutch Caribbean island and Santo Domingo could possibly be a unique type of connection for vacationers trying to attain the more and more in style little island. Regional provider Air Century is planning to launch new flights between Bonaire and Santo Domingo, with a begin date of June 18. The flight, which might function between the capital’s La Isabela airport and Bonaire, would run on Air Century’s 50-seat plane. So how does that assist vacationers? Effectively, with restricted nonstop choices from…
You hear it within the late afternoon. It begins as a strolling beat: one, two, one two. Then it turns into one thing else, one thing extra highly effective. One-two-three one. A percussive pounding, a collection of formality punches that lower by the ocean air and discover you wherever you’re. That is the rhythm of Hopkins, a maritime metronome rooted within the venerable centuries-old traditions of the Garifuna folks that decision this place dwelling. It’s arduous to go far or lengthy on this coastal village within the southern half of Belize with out listening to the drumming; typically it’s from…
The Balinese design. The tableside steak tartare. The exceptional service. Curacao’s Baoase Luxurious Resort is an outlier even on the planet of Caribbean luxurious — they do issues a bit in a different way right here, and it exhibits. There’s a cause it’s at all times been one in all our favourite motels within the Caribbean, and Curacao’s luxurious chief. And now it’s residence to a really cool new amenity: the Caribbean’s latest seaside bar, which actually isn’t a bar in any respect – it’s truly its personal personal island. It’s known as Bida Seaside, and it’s the latest addition to…
The Platinum Coast. The Pitons. The rum outlets. The rainforest. Barbados and Saint Lucia are two of essentially the most vibrant locations within the Caribbean, and so they’re the 2 hottest Caribbean locations for British vacationers proper now, in response to British Airways. The nationwide flag service simply launched its Journey Traits report, and two Caribbean locations made the highest 10: the islands of Barbados and Saint Lucia. Barbados got here in at quantity three on the checklist, simply after Dubai; and Saint Lucia was ninth, simply behind Mauritius. They have been the 2 most-searched vacation bundle locations within the…