Caribbean Travel

Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Cancun beaches with tons of sand extracted from the Caribbean. Nonprofit groups said the ruling will make it hard or impossible for them to defend environmental causes in court. "This means that only people with money, and a lot of it, will have access to environmental justice," said Gustavo Alanis of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law. The activist group Sky, Land and Sea said a judge in Cancun denied their request for an injunction against the ... Read Full Story

Environmentalists expressed outrage Thursday after a Mexican judge upheld a requirement that they post a $1.1 million bond to pursue a suit against a project to rebuild Cancun beaches with tons of sand extracted from the Caribbean. Nonprofit groups said the ruling will make it hard or impossible for them to defend environmental causes in court. "This means that only people with money, and a lot of it, will have access to environmental justice," said Gustavo Alanis of the Mexican Center for Environmental Law. The activist group Sky, Land and Sea said a judge in Cancun denied their request for an injunction against the ... Read Full Story

The Caribbean has long been considered a luxury honeymoon paradise due to its endless sandy beaches and perfect tropical climate. The remote atmosphere of many of the island?s more luxurious resorts has also helped to attract celebrities for decades, who enjoy the time spent relaxing without any distractions from lurking paparazzi or screaming fans. Here are a few resorts in which some of Hollywood?s A-list have recently chosen to take their luxury Caribbean honeymoons. Jade Mountain Resort ? St Lucia Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett recently returned from a nine-day honeymoon holiday at the Jade Mountain Resort in St Lucia. The 5* resort is ... Read Full Story

Hand-picked by computer, CANCÚN is, if nothing else, proof of Mexico's remarkable ability to get things done in a hurry if the political will is there. A fishing village of 120 people as recently as 1970, it's now a city with a resident population of half a million and receives almost two million visitors a year. To some extent the computer selected its location well. Cancún is marginally closer to Miami than it is to Mexico City, and if you come on an all-inclusive package tour the place has a lot to offer: striking modern hotels on white-sand beaches; high-class entertainment including parachuting, jet-skiing, ... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Oct. 19, 2009-- California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (CPK) (NASDAQ: CPKI), home of the Original BBQ Chicken Pizza and other innovative hearth-baked pizzas, made-to-order pastas, creative salads, appetizers, soups, sandwiches and desserts, announced today the opening of its seventh location in Mexico. The new restaurant, another opened by CPK franchise partner Grupo Calpik, S.A.P.I. de C.V., is the first to open in Cancun, Quintana Roo. The new 6,500 square-foot restaurant seats approximately 250 people and is located inside the new wing of Malecon Americas, home to over 230 retail stores, high-rise condominiums, a premier business hotel and corporate center. The new ... Read Full Story