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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — On Tuesday, the Special Operations Response Team (SORT), a new arm of the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service, made a multimillion-dollar drug bust in a gated community in Westmoorings, an upscale residential area in Trinidad’s capital, Port of Spain. Led by the no-nonsense new Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, officers recovered […]
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts — The levels of corruption, conflicts of interest, victimisation, nepotism and cronyism have become the hallmarks of the near four-year-old Team Unity coalition headed by St Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr Timothy Harris, former prime minister and current leader of the opposition, Dr Denzil Douglas, said on Wednesday. “The Team Unity […]
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By Alexander Britell
The green hills and turquoise seas of the Grenadines have long been one of the most romantic places in the hemisphere, an unspoiled archipelago of the sort that inspires novels and one-way tickets.
A big reason for the destination’s romance, though, has been its remoteness, having been served for decades by only a small regional airport.
Traditionally, there’s been one way to get there: by flying first to Barbados, then a small plane to Kingstown.
But the experience of reaching this place is about to change in a big way.
Bequia has long been one of the Caribbean’s best-kept secrets.
That changed at the beginning of last year when the country opened the new Argyle International Airport, able to facilitate large-body aircraft — but now the flights are finally coming.
American Airlines is set to launch its first-ever flights to St Vincent and the Grenadines later this month.
The new nonstop flights, which will launch Dec. 22, will operate year round on Saturdays out of Miami International Airport.
American is operating the flights on an Airbus A319 aircraft.
The Palm Island resort in the Grenadines.
The new service will open more travelers’ eyes to St Vincent and the Grenadines and its marvelous marriage of tiny, funky islands like Bequia and Union Island and luxury private-island resorts like Palm Island and Petit St Vincent.
More recently, the destination got a boost from the launch of the Pink Sands Club on the island of Canouan and its recent rebranding as the first-ever Mandarin Oriental resort in the Caribbean, the Mandarin Oriental, Canouan.
The Mandarin Oriental, Canouan.
Air Canada was the first major North American carrier to begin servicing St Vincent, but the launch of flights from the all-important U.S. market will be a big lift for the archipelago.
It could also help spur tourism development in “mainland” St Vincent, as much of the hotel and tourism development in recent decades has been in the islands of the Grenadines.
— CJ
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By the Caribbean Journal staff
After a slow period over the summer, Cancun International Airport is beginning to surge once again.
The carrier reported 1.991 million passengers in November, a 7.6 percent increase over the same month in 2017.
Cancun.
That was buoyed by 5.8 percent growth in international traffic, according to ASUR, which manages Cancun airport and a number of other airpots across Mexico, Colombia and Puerto Rico.
For the year, Cancun’s airport traffic is now up by 6.9 percent, with a total of just under 22.93 million passengers served so far in 2018.
That includes 4.3 percent growth in international traffic, according to the company.
— CJ
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