Boost for craft traders

Boost for craft traders

Jamaica’s licensed craft traders will benefit from a grant to help them prepare for the winter tourist season which gets underway on December 15. The special Winter Tourist Season Capacity Building Support Programme will be spearheaded by the Tourism Enhancement Fund...
Margaritaville takes to the seas

Margaritaville takes to the seas

Margaritaville will launch a cruise brand next year, via a rebranding of the former Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line.  Like Bahamas Paradise, Margaritaville at Sea will offer two-day cruises from the Port of Palm Beach in Florida to Grand Bahama Island. It will...
Cayman’s cruise rules

Cayman’s cruise rules

The Cayman Islands has outlined a list of rules that must be in place when it welcomes back cruise ships later this month.  Grand Cayman must be the first port of call, there must be no more than 1,600 passengers — 60 per cent capacity — and all guests and crew...
ROSE HALL CIGAR CLUB – more than smokes

ROSE HALL CIGAR CLUB – more than smokes

Those who know a thing or two about Cuban cigars will tell you there’s an art to indulging. It starts with choosing the perfect smoke, a process that uses all five of your senses. It ends with allowing the cigar to “die with dignity”. No crushed pulp in an ashtray for...
Cruise back at all Jamaica’s major ports

Cruise back at all Jamaica’s major ports

When the Montego Bay Cruise Port welcomes the Carnival Glory, on December 1, its first cruise ship since the re-opening of the local cruise industry, it will also mark the return of operations to all the island’s major cruise ports. The conquest-class cruise ship is...