Cubans yearn for more Caribbean tourists
Cubans of Jamaican and Barbadian descent reckon that an increase in tourist arrivals from other Caribbean islands could bring greater support or even spur new opportunities for expanding their culture...
View ArticleAirline considers building new terminal at Ian Fleming Airport
Airline operator interCaribbean Airways is eyeing the construction of a US$25 million private air terminal at the Ian Fleming Airport, St Mary. It forms part of expansion plans the airline is...
View ArticleToronto's Caribbean Carnival a North American celebration
The Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade is ready to take over Toronto this weekend – and the whole country can celebrate this glorious, colourful event, part of an exciting three-week cultural explosion of...
View ArticleAnnouncing services to Havana, Cuba from Providenciales, Turks & Caicos....
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, Feb. 8, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Commencing on May 3, 2016 interCaribbean Airways® is is pleased to launch new nonstop services to Havana's Jose MartíInternational...
View ArticleRegional airlines zero in on Cuba
This week the Obama administration's plans to complete an agreement with Cuba that will allow scheduled commercial flights to resume this year between the United States and the island nation for the...
View ArticleA New way to fly to Cuba, from Providenciales, Turks & Caicos Islands...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands, Nov. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- This December sees the launch of a new Gateway to the island of Cuba from Providenciales (PLS), Turks & Caicos Islands....
View ArticleHouse approves motion for lifting of Cuban embargo
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The House of Representatives has unanimously approved a motion calling for the lifting of the economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba by the United States. The...
View ArticleSix US airlines approved to begin direct flights to Cuba
Six US airlines have been approved by the American government to begin the first scheduled flights to Cuba in more than 50 years. The airlines were approved to fly from five US cities to nine Cuban...
View ArticleHere’s why Cuba is the perfect destination for a quiet, lazy vacation
Despite a succession of sweeping changes in recent years – rapprochement with the US, Fidel Castro’s death – the rhythm of life on the island remains as languid as ever. In Old Havana, locals still...
View ArticlePainful lessons from loss of Cuban fencing team in 1976
By noon on Oct. 6, 1976, at Seawell International Airport in Barbados, it was humid, raining and 80 degrees. A McDonnell Douglas four-engine DC-8 jet adorned with Cubana Airlines' blue, white and red...
View ArticleCuba calls
I am glad I visited Cuba soon after former President Barack Obama began to ease travel restrictions as part of his diplomatic detente. Now, President Donald Trump is intimating he might quash one of...
View ArticleThe Best Dressed Chicken Set To Excite With First-Class ‘Culinary...
The Best Dressed Chicken has recruited four of Jamaica’s leading chefs to tantalise the taste buds this evening at the Jamaica Observer Table Talk Food Awards. The quartet of accomplished chefs: Ravi...
View ArticleAntigua looking to Cuban market
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (CMC) — Antigua and Barbuda is sending a trade mission to Cuba that Trade, Commerce and Industry Minister, Paul Chet Greene, has described as a strategic move given the imminent...
View ArticleJamaican students grateful for medical scholarships
University student Nicholas Campbell is extremely delighted to receive a scholarship to pursue a medical degree in Cuba. He is one of eight young Jamaicans who will leave the island in August to pursue...
View ArticleFood
Pop into any modern mainstream restaurant today (from the USA to Canada to the UK and all points in between) and you will more than likely find jerk, or some version thereof, on the menu. And while we...
View ArticleHistoric flight from U.S. lands in Cuba
SANTA CLARA, Cuba — The first commercial flight between the United States and Cuba in more than a half century landed in the central city of Santa Clara on Wednesday morning, re-establishing regular...
View ArticleU.S.-Cuba commercial flights on the horizon
American Airlines’ Howard Kass is hopeful that the airline will be flying regularly scheduled service between the United States and Cuba within the first half of this year and says Miami will play a...
View ArticleInaugural commercial flight from US lands in Cuba
SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AFP) — The first regular commercial flight in more than 50 years from the United States landed in Cuba on Wednesday, as the two nations took the latest step in their efforts to boost...
View ArticleWhy you should get to Cuba now!
I have a Cuban hangover. I’m sitting in my easy chair early in the morning, drinking black Cuban coffee and listening to Cuban music while looking at the photos I took on our trip. I didn’t have...
View ArticleCurator hails Mobay Cultural Centre
ST JAMES, Jamaica (JIS) — Curator of the National Museum of Jamaica, David Stimpson, says the Montego Bay Cultural Centre is now the place to have an up-close-and-personal experience with Jamaican...
View ArticleBevan Earle — blazing a trail of success in South Florida
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida — When St James native Bevan Earle emigrated to Florida in 1989 after serving 18 years in the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF), he had no idea that he would later be dubbed...
View ArticleSandals makes another game-changing move
Hotel giant Sandals Resorts International (SRI) is planning another investment for Jamaica’s tourism industry. After gaining approval for five overwater villas at Sandals Kokomo Island, hotelier Gordon...
View ArticleEight U.S. airlines will fly between American cities, Havana
Eight U.S. airlines will be awarded 20 direct daily flights between U.S. cities and Havana, with service to begin this fall, the Transportation Department announced Thursday. The airlines, whose...
View ArticleCuba ranks top in Caribbean for culture
A couple of developments in the travel industry have hit the headlines recently. They may not be in the biggest type, but they’re notable. They’ve gotten me thinking. They’re indicators, I think, of...
View ArticleUPDATE: Trinidad outlines reasons for denying Jamaicans entry to country
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – The Trinidad and Tobago Government says it had prevented 12 Jamaicans from entering the island late last month because they were “deemed likely to become charges on...
View ArticleNew air links raise hopes in Washington and Cuba
SANTA CLARA, Cuba >> The first off JetBlue 387 were the TV cameramen, the U.S. secretary of transportation and the airline executives. As the tropical sun beat the tarmac, the VIPs traded...
View ArticleCuba awards 8 medical scholarships
EIGHT young Jamaicans have been awarded medical scholarships to study in Cuba for the 2016-2017 academic year, under the Cuba-Jamaica Cooperation Programme. Cuban ambassador to Jamaica Bernardo Guanche...
View Article‘Rum, Rhythm & Roots’
British-Jamaican reggae musician, celebrity chef and restaurateur Keith Graham, also known as Levi Roots, has been working with Sandals Resorts International for the past few years on a fantastic and...
View ArticleCDB president issues warning to Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, (CMC) — President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Warren Smith, is warning the Barbados government that it needs to deal urgently with the island’s...
View ArticleCDB president issues debt warning to Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Warren Smith is warning the Barbados Government that it needs to deal urgently with the island’s...
View ArticleCheapo Travel: 10 ways to save money on Cuba travel
Why rent your own car when you can affordably take buses and taxis whereever you need to go? Here, a vintage taxi loads up tourists for the trip back to Havana from Caleton, Playa Larga on the Bay of...
View ArticleJamaica, Cuba pledge to deepen relations
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica and Cuba have pledged to identify ways to deepen collaboration and exchanges in the areas of trade, tourism, climate change and...
View ArticleSandals chef to serve up tasty delights in Rio
Senior group executive chef at Sandals Resorts International Glenroy Walker will bring his culinary expertise and intricate knowledge of Jamaican cuisine to the gastronomic offerings at Jamaica House...
View ArticleA review: Ackee poisoning in Jamaica
SEVERAL plant species contain or produce toxic substances. It is believed that these naturally occurring toxins are produced as part of the plant’s defence mechanism against predators. Many of these...
View ArticleBartlett discusses tourism growth with board chairmen
With his sights focused on pulling in more than US$3 billion from the US$7.2 trillion global tourism market, Minister of Tourism Edmund Bartlett has informed the newly appointed boards in the sector of...
View ArticleTravel companies set their sights on Cuba
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — From cruise lines to ferries to airlines, businesses are getting in line to shepherd masses of Americans to the long-forbidden island of Cuba. Many hope to benefit quickly under...
View ArticleCuba sees Obama terror promise as healing of historic wound
Share PhotoReddit✉ In this Sept. 20, 2014 photo, a military academy student rests next to a photos of people who died in the 1976 Cubana Airlines bombing as it was flying from Barbados to Cuba, in...
View ArticleLunch & Convo With Brian Lumley
It’s been a while — 10 months, to be exact — since Chef Brian Lumley left our shores for Doha, Qatar. He has, during this time, been in development mode for Aspire Katara Hospitality, under whose...
View ArticleHolness exploring increased bilateral co-operation with C’bean neighbours
PRIME Minister Andrew Holness says he expects a number of high-level visits to Jamaica and increased bilateral co-operation, emerging from discussions he started at the Association of Caribbean States...
View ArticleinterCaribbean Airways and Cubana Interline Ticket Agreement
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands, April 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- interCaribbean is pleased to launch an interline agreement between interCaribbean and Cubana de Aviacion S.A. or "Cubana" the...
View ArticleCuba to welcome more tourists this year: official
HAVANA, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Cuba will welcome 4.2 million tourists this year, 200,000 more than last year, a Cuban tourism official said Sunday. Cuba has seen a tourism boom in recent...
View ArticleinterCaribbean Airways and British Airways Announce Interline Ticket...
(Source: NMIA Airports Limited) Title: interCaribbean Airways and British Airways Announce Interline Ticket Agreement Date: Wednesday 29 th July, 2015 Details: PROVIDENCIALES, TURKS & CAICOS, JUL...
View ArticleCaribbean Carriers have new Cuban Flights in their Sights (NMIA Airports...
(Source: NMIA Airports Limited) Title: Caribbean Carriers have new Cuban Flights in their Sights Date: Wednesday 17 th June, 2015 Details: US airlines are not the only ones chomping at the bit to get...
View ArticleUS airlines reducing flights to Cuba
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (CMC) — Some airlines in the United States are reducing flights to Cuba, with Silver Airways planning to trim its flight schedule to the Spanish-speaking Caribbean country...
View ArticleHaitian airline plans new dawn in Jamaica
President of Haiti-based Sunrise Airways, Philippe Bayard, reckons that the Haitian carrier will be operating flights to and from Jamaica by fall next year. It’s an initiative that the airline has been...
View ArticleNew direct flights to Turks and Caicos
As part of regional expansion plans, interCaribbean Airways has introduced a non-stop weekly service from Providenciales, Turks and Caicos, to Montego Bay. The airline says the new flight will begin...
View ArticleinterCaribbean Airways beefs up flights with increased air link to BVI
interCaribbean Airways has added another flight to Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, making travel easier for Caribbean nationals without a US Visa. The new flight will fly to Tortola via Santo...
View ArticleCuba ignites possibility of greater multi-island tourism
Known for its vintage cars, colonial architecture and friendly people, Cuba continues its reign as one of the top tourist destinations within the Caribbean. In fact, the opening of the Cuban market for...
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