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On Jamaican growth By Dennis ChungCJ Contributor The World Economic Forum has just published the 2016/17 Global Competitiveness Report (GCR), and it shows that Jamaica has improved its ranking from 86 of 140 countries to 75 of 138 countries. This is an improvement of some seven per cent on the ranking when the number…
Views don’t get much better than this one at the Frangipani Beach Resort in Anguilla, a 19-room luxe boutique that’s one of the island’s top hotels. All photos by Thierry Dehove. It’s a one-bedroom suite with superb ocean vistas of Meads Bay from a spacious balcony — but it gets even better on the inside….
One of the southern Caribbean’s top nightlife destinations has another great offering: Koraal. The island’s newest hotspot is a rooftop bar with an infinity pool that’s quickly become a must-visit for craft cocktails, tapas and people-watching. The bar, which is located in the Coral Estate development, is set on the roof of the Karakter…
Tourism in Belize continues to boom, according to the destination’s latest arrival data. For the first nine months of 2016, Belize reported 293,622 stayover arrivals, a 16.4 percent increase over the same period in 2015 — making it one of the Caribbean’s fastest-growing tourism destinations. The Cayo Espanto private-island resort in Belize. The country has…
The Turquoize adults-only experience at the Hyatt Ziva resort in Cancun has another new amenity: butler service. The all-inclusive property has added specially-trained “Turquoize butlers” to “cater to guests’ almost every whim,” according to the resort. The company said the new butlers had “honed their skills through extensive training in order to offer the…