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Our favourite hotels on the tiny, idyllic Caribbean island of Grenada
It can be hard knowing where to start in Grenada. Sipping cocktails under swaying palms? Dining on jumbo seafood to a soundtrack of steel pan drums? Eating some of the world’s finest chocolate at its source? Though small in size — just 133 square...
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Tobago’s Jolé St. John is CTO 2025 Regional Tourism Youth Congress Winner [Cayman’s Aylani Morris Seymour 3rd]
Source: Caribbean Tourism Organization Jolé St. John of Tobago (center) with Jamaica’s Caleader Lewison (left) and Aylani Morris Seymour from the Cayman Islands in Barbados onThursday BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (October 4, 2025) – Sixteen-year-old Jolé...

Jamaican takes second place at 2025 CTO Regional Tourism Youth Congress
Jolé St John of Tobago (center) with Jamaica’s Caleader Lewison (left) and Aylani Morris Seymour from the Cayman Islands in Barbados. (Photo: CMC) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) — Caleader Lewison, the 16-year-old junior minister of tourism for...

Tobago’s Jolé St. John is CTO 2025 Regional Tourism Youth Congress Winner
Regional Tourism Youth Congress participants with (l-r) Charles Fernandez, Minister of Tourism of Antigua and Barbuda; Dona Regis-Prosper, CTO Secretary-General; Councillor Tashia Burris, Secretary of Tourism, Tobago; Ian Gooding-Edghill, CTO...

Caribbean tourism shows resilience amid mixed markets
Bridgetown, Barbados: Caribbean tourism recorded 18.5 million arrivals in the first half of 2025, up nearly two per cent on last year and six per cent above pre-pandemic levels, according to new data presented at the CTO’s State of the Tourism...

Huggins awards 2 new G A Menezes Scholarship recipients
On Wednesday, 1 October 2025, the G A Menezes Scholarship programme welcomed 2 new students. At a ceremony held at Huggins’ Administrative Offices, Omari Cyrus and Mikhail Fraser were each awarded a 2-year scholarship to pursue Associate Degrees...

Kuoni Launch New Range of Cruise & Stay Holidays With Non-Cruisers in Mind
Kuoni are redefining the cruise experience by combining the freedom of the seas with its deep land-based expertise with the launch of a new range of Cruise & Stay holidays. The 25 ‘not-off-the-shelf’ itineraries blend land and sea adventures...
COMMENTARY: My friend Grenadian revolutionary Lt. Col.Liam James, a personal memoir of the Grenada Revolution, Dominica & the Douglas brothers
Lieutenant Liam James Grenada Revolutionary ArmyIntroduction I was saddened to read in recent news that Lieutenant Colonel Liam James, a leader of the 1979 Grenada Revolution, was ill. I had met Liam James three times: once in Havana, Cuba in...

More Americans are CBI-approved citizens of Grenada
by Linda Straker In first quarter of 2025, 1% of 632 new CBI-approved citizens were US nationals In second quarter of 2025, 12% of 402 new CBI-approved citizens were US nationals IMA team will be embarking on tour of West Africa in October 2025...

Diwali in Times Square celebrates 10th anniversary
Features Newsday 36 Minutes Ago Dr Devicka Persaud, left, Karen Gopee and Terry Gajraj at a past Diwali at Times Square event. - BAVINA SOOKDEO The TT-born judge has become a key figure in Diwali at Times Square, one of the largest South Asian...

Global immigration news round up
This week, the Global Immigration team at Smith Stone Walters would like to highlight the following recent updates from Denmark, Hong Kong, Namibia, Portugal and Qatar. Denmark: No residence permits for nurse authorisations On 7 October 2025, the...

Bask in an endless summer with HELLO!'s latest travel special
The kids are back at school, the hordes have cleared off the beaches, and flights are suddenly half the price. That's right, folks, it's shoulder season – that sweet spot when the sun's still warm but the crowds have vanished. September and...

Grenada and Andorra establish diplomatic relations
The Permanent Mission of Grenada to the United Nations announces that the Government of Grenada has established diplomatic relations with the Government of the Principality of Andorra. The Principality of Andorra is a small, landlocked country in...

Grenada launches lambie-lobster festival on Carriacou
The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural Lambie and Lobster Festival, set to take place in January 2026 on the Sister Isles of Carriacou and Petite Martinique. The festival will spotlight the seafood and...

Grenada Tourism Authority launches Lambie and Lobster Festival on the Sister Isles
The Grenada Tourism Authority (GTA) has officially launched the inaugural Lambie and Lobster Festival, scheduled for January 2026 on the Sister Isles of Carriacou and Petite Martinique. - Advertisement - The festival aims to celebrate the seafood...

Grenada at 70th meeting of Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group
Grenada’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Honourable Joseph Andall participated in the 70th Meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) in New York City on Sunday, 21 September 2025, on the sidelines of the 80th Session of the United...

Grenada’s High Commissioner presents Letter of Introduction to Prime Minister of Canada
Grenada’s High Commissioner to Canada His Excellency Sylvester Quarless officially presented letters of introduction to the Rt Hon. Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, from Prime Minister Hon. Dickon Mitchell on Wednesday, 17 September 2025, at...

The revolutionary meaning of Grenada’s ‘Jab Jab’ and why more Black Americans should travel to Spicemas
It’s a sight that will stop you dead in your tracks. Brown bodies covered in black oil from head to toe. Shining like onyx stones in the sun. Helmets adorned with horns curved upward, sometimes accompanied by red, bloodied mouths, never far from a...

The Diocese of The Windward Islands
The Thirty-Ninth triennial Synod of the (Anglican) Diocese of the Windward Islands is scheduled for Monday 6th to Wednesday 8th October, 2025 with Sunday 5th and Thursday 9th being travelling days. The concelebrated Holy Eucharist to mark the...

Grenadian-born author’s Tyree and the Not-So-Green Monkeys
Grenadian-born author Gillian Joseph is proud to announce the release of her debut children’s book, “Tyree and the Not-So-Green Monkeys,” available worldwide on 7 October 2025. Written for children ages 2 to 5 and beautifully illustrated by Prabir...