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The Island’s Caribbean community unites this Friday for an annual bash courtesy of the West Indian Association — with this year’s gathering also raising money in aid of Caribbean flood victims. “When we come together as island people, we don’t just c...

The West Indian Association (Bermuda) are planning a series of fundraising events to help those affected by flooding in the West Indies. Association president Chandra Persad, said that St Vincent and The Grenadines and St Lucia were both devastated b...

Bermuda is one of sixteen member governments of the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF) that have renewed their hurricane and earthquake insurance for the 2013/14 policy year that started June 1, the organisation has announced. In a...

A Hyatt subsidiary has closed on a deal to invest in Playa Hotels & Resorts, part of the company’s plan to operate and develop a series of all-inclusive resorts in the Caribbean and Mexico, Caribbean Journal reported yesterday. The company said the d...

Norwegian Cruise Line has purchased around 75 acres in southern Belize for a planned cruise port destination, the company announced yesterday. The land, which is called Harvest Caye, is comprised of a pair of islands in the Stann Creek and Toledo Dis...

Private enterprise, not political action, is the key to tackling unemployment and boosting economic growth in the Caribbean, a leading economist in the region has said. Writing in the Caribbean Journal, former Minister of State for Finance with the G...

Caribbean Journal (CJ) is reporting that hotel occupancy fell 1.2 percent in June, the first month regional occupancy fell year-over-year since November of 2010, according to a new report from STR, which tracks supply and demand data for the hotel in...

A Caribbean Journal opinion article at the weekend compared the “idleness” of CARICOM with the nimble and more effective Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). Author David Rowe, an attorney in Jamaica and Florida and an adjunct law profess...