With the Venezuelan economy worsening and residents of Caracas unable to buy diapers or even toilet paper due to foreign-exchange shortages, how much longer will Venezuela be able to subsidize cheap oil for its political allies throughout the Caribbean and Central America.
NEW YORK — Anguilla, a British colony known for its high-end resorts and wealthy clientele, is sending out feelers for a new international airport aimed at attracting nonstop flights from the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
It’s been nearly four years since Oct. 10, 2010 — the day the Netherlands Antilles was officially dissolved, allowing the Dutch-speaking islands in the confederation to go their own separate ways.
WASHINGTON — One year after Nicolás Maduro’s election as president of Venezuela — in a voting process the opposition claims was rigged and illegal — the hand-picked successor to the late populist Hugo Chávez faces a country in chaos.
WASHINGTON — The leader of one of the Western Hemisphere’s tiniest nations came to the capital of its most powerful on Friday — sounding the alarm on climate change and urging U.S. investment in the Caribbean’s emerging “green economy.”
Officials in the U.S. Virgin Islands expect 2017, which will mark 100 years since the United States bought the territory from Denmark, to be a banner year for tourism.
When it comes to duty free shopping, no Caribbean destination holds more appeal than St. Maarten, a Dutch-speaking outpost of the Netherlands that shares the 37-square-mile island with French-speaking St. Martin.
St. Kitts-Nevis, the smallest sovereign state in the Americas in both area and population, has only 53,000 inhabitants and measures just 104 square miles — less than twice the size of the District of Columbia. Yet it’s at the forefront of a cruise ship and hotel building boom that shows no sign of slowing down.
Puerto Rico, deep in the throes of an economic and fiscal crisis, is losing ground to rival Caribbean tourism destinations while the island’s population continues to shrink — from just over 3.8 million in 2010 to under 3.7 million today.
On Dec. 30, with only two days left in 2013, Jamaica welcomed its two millionth air passenger to the island — the first time it has ever accomplished that in one year.
Four years after an earthquake killed 300,000 of its people and devastated its capital city, Haiti will outpace all its Caribbean neighbors in terms of economic growth.
Tourism authorities on French-speaking Guadeloupe want to make sure you don’t confuse their island with Mexico’s Isla Guadalupe, a volcanic Pacific biosphere reserve famous for its great white sharks.
The undisputed king of Caribbean tourism, the Dominican Republic consistently attracts more visitors to its shores than any other country in the region.
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