By the Caribbean Journal staff

The biggest ship Carnival Cruise Line has ever constructed will have an equally robust name.

Carnival revealed the new name for its XL-class ship, slated to debut in 2020: Mardi Gras.

The ship, which will be the first-ever cruise ship in North America powered by liquefied natural gas, will be named after the first Carnival ship that entered service back in 1972.

It will be more than six times the size of that ship.

Mardi Gras is currently under construction at Meyer Turku in Finland.

“Our first ship Mardi Gras was a historic vessel, introducing a brand new style of cruising to the vacationing public. What better way to pay tribute to our company’s nearly 50-year history of creating wonderful vacation memories than by naming this groundbreaking vessel after our original and beloved ‘Fun Ship,’” said Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line. “The new Mardi Gras will follow the trailblazing lead of her predecessor, introducing features and technological innovations that have never been seen before on a cruise ship while setting a new standard for seagoing vacations.”

The ship will homeport at Port Canaveral in Florida, featuring a new terminal at the port.

A second ship of the company’s XL class will begin construction in 2020 and debut in 2022 in time for the company’s 50th anniversary.

— CJ

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By Caribbean News Now contributor DALLAS, USA — The former Dallas police officer who fatally shot a Saint Lucian man, Botham Jean, in his own apartment in September, was indicted on a murder charge on Friday. Amber Guyger, 30, was booked on Friday and quickly released on a $200,000 bond. A Dallas County grand jury […]

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By Ray Chickrie Caribbean News Now contributor ISTANBUL, Turkey — Guyana attended the 34th meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (COMCEC), which was held last week in Istanbul, Turkey. Representing Guyana at the meeting was its permanent ambassador to the United Nations, Michael Ten-Pow, who […]

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By the Caribbean Journal staff

As coral reefs continue to dwindle around the region, more and more initiatives are looking to plant new coral and save dying reefs.

But in order to plant the coral, it has to grow somewhere.

That’s the plan for a major new project in the Bahamas: the Coral Farm Education and Research Centre, a Grand Bahama operation whose manager, Coral Vita, is dedicated to growing coral reefs.

The project broke ground in East Grand Bahama this week.

Coral Vita uses technology that grows corals up to 50 times faster, while “strengthening their resiliency to climate change threats,” according to a statement.

The new center is “adding to what is already a very powerful brand in The Bahamas, as a country that is on the cutting edge of conservation in marine and life sciences,” says Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard.

“This project, to me, seems to be a natural option to that, along with the regeneration of the mangroves. These natural defenses, while may seem outlandish or scientific from the outset, will provide us with natural defenses and cost-effective defenses to protect what we have in our country,” Pintard says.

— CJ

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