The recently-debuted Hilton at Resorts World Bimini has a new hotspot: a rooftop bar called Monkey Business.

The bar, which opens up onto the hotel’s rooftop infinity pool, offers 360-degree island views along with signature cocktails and poolside bites.

On the weekends, patrons can enjoy late-night cocktails and live DJ entertainment.

This summer’s slate will include a number of top DJs like Nick Cannon, who performed an exclusive DJ set at the bar last month.

— CJ Staff

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A new way to spend the summer in Jamaica

By Sarah Greaves-Gabbadon
CJ Travel Editor

Although the new school year has just started, it’s never too early for college students to start planning their summer internships.

And if you’re a second- or third-generation Jamaican student who wants to connect with your island heritage, there’s good news: Applications are now open for Grace Kennedy’s Jamaican Birthright program, which provides summer internships for young people living outside the island whose parents or grandparents are Jamaican citizens.

Open to U.S.-, U.K-. and Canada-based undergraduate and graduate students between 18 and 25-years-old, the program is designed to give four interns a well-rounded experience of Jamaican life while furthering their professional goals. Successful candidates will work for a month in a Grace Kennedy company relevant to their field of study, and participate in weekend excursions that will expose them to all aspects of the island’s unique lifestyle and vibrant culture.

Established in 1922, Grace Kennedy is one of Jamaica’s oldest corporations, with a network of 60 companies in the food processing, finance, banking and remittance industries. For more information and to apply for the birthright program, go to gracekennedy.com/birthright. Applications close on November 30.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — During a period of one week, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), working jointly with the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF), seized $60 million worth of drugs and arrested nine individuals for drug trafficking.

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This isn’t a hotel.

Everything here, every detail, every room, is a symbol.

St. Lucia’s Jade Mountain, the Caribbean’s most architecturally stunning hotel, the place famous for its three-walled rooms and its infinity pools that look out on the Pitons, isn’t really like any other hotel in the Caribbean.

The minute you depart the welcome shuttle, you feel like you’ve touched down on another planet. This is an otherworldly place, with design you simply won’t find elsewhere.

And then you realize why. Nick Troubetzkoy, who designed this wonder of a place, had a vision for transcendence, a celestial place of never-ending possibility. And while this all sounds hyperbolic, it isn’t — because when you arrive here you see that there is nothing that looks like this. Anywhere.

If you stop for a moment, if you step back, it becomes clear the theme is infinity — and it’s not just the pools.

In the rooms, it’s not that there’s a missing fourth wall, but the idea that your room never stops — that your room and that spectacular view are joined and ever-fusing. The exposed pilings on the “bridges” to the rooms hint at future construction — but what they’re really saying is that nothing here is finished — here, there is perpetual possibility.

It’s rare to find a hotel like this — a hotel that you begs you to understand it.

And then you realize again — this isn’t a hotel. You’re staying in a work of art.

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Celebrity Cruises has signed music superstar Demi Lovato to kick off its new Concert Series this winter season.

The concert will take place in St Maarten, and be available for four Caribbean itineraries: a 14-night Caribbean holiday on Celebrity Equinox, a 12-night Southern Caribbean holiday on Celebrity Eclipse, a 7-night Eastern Caribbean holiday on Celebrity Reflection and a 7-night Southern Caribbean holiday on Celebrity Summit.

All four ships will be in port for the concert, which takes place Dec. 28.

General admission tickets will be $100, with VIP tickets for $300.

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