TripAdvisor’s Best Beaches in the World (Cayman does not make list)
From Caribbean360 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday February 22, 2016 – The Caribbean has taken top honours in TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards 2016, with Grace Bay in the Turks and Caicos Islands copping the top spot, and the region bagging five out…
Garcia brothers reunite at Caribbean Series
From Y96 News “Have you had a chance to speak to your brother yet?” a reporter from Venezuela asked. Garcia sighed and then smiled. Garcia and his little brother, Jose Adolis Garcia, will share the field for the first time…
Raul Castro prepares Cuba for tough year despite US opening
By Michael Weissenstein Associated Press From The Olympian Havana – President Raul Castro warned Cubans on Tuesday to prepare for tough economic conditions in 2016 despite warmer relations with the United States. Castro said that while tourism is booming, low oil prices have damaged…
Shark kills Venezuela man being rescued by Dutch Coast Guard near Aruba in Caribbean
By Associated Press From Star Tribune ORANJESTAD, Aruba — One of seven Venezuelan men whose boat capsized near Aruba died after he was attacked by a shark while being rescued, the Dutch Caribbean Coast Guard said Monday. Two other men…
Venezuelan opposition sweeps parliamentary elections
From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s National Electoral Council (CNE) has released the preliminary but “irreversible” results of the country’s National Assembly elections. In the early hours of Monday morning, Tibisay Lucena, the president of the CNE, congratulated…
Guyanese call for peaceful resolution to border conflict
By Tangerine Clarke From Caribbean Life More that 300 Guyanese held a peaceful demonstration on Dag Hammarskjold Plaza outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, calling for a peaceful resolution to the fight for the South American country’s…
Border dispute worsens
By Bert Wilkinson from Caribbean Life Ever since U.S. oil giant Exxon Mobil reported a huge oil and gas find off Venezuela in early May, authorities in neighboring Venezuela have turned up the pressure on neighboring Guyana, laying claim to…
The Caribbean energy bloc led by Venezuela is holding a key meeting on energy in the region.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro arrived in the island nation, after flying directly from Qatar. In Jamaica, he’ll be meeting with Caribbean leader Saturday for a summit of the oil bloc PetroCaribe. “We are constructing a multicentric and multipolar world,” said…
Colombia seeks to ship coal via Caribbean ports after Venezuela border crisis
London (Platts)—from Platts McGraw Hill Financial The Colombian government is studying the possibility of permanently shipping coal from its Norte de Santander mines, usually shipped through Venezuela, via its Caribbean ports of Santa Marta and Barranquilla instead, the Colombian transport…
Cuban doctors fleeing “shortages and mistreatment” in Venezuela protest for US visas
From CARIBBEAN360 BOGOTA, Colombia, Monday August 24, 2015 — Deteriorating conditions in Venezuela are causing increasing numbers of Cuban medical personnel working there to immigrate to the United States under a special US programme launched in 2006 that expedites their…
