Caribbean chikungunya cases top 170,000
By Lisa Schnirring Staff Writer From CIDRAP News The number of chikungunya cases in parts of the Caribbean continued to surge last week, pushing past 170,000 cases, with the first cases confirmed in El Salvador, west of the main outbreak…
Titanic explorer investigates the ‘Caribbean’s Deadly Underworld’
By Gerri Miller From Mother Nature Network Under the sea disasters, like volcanoes and landslides, can create habitats for all sorts of marine life, including colonies of shrimp, lionfish, and enormous mussels. A remote-controlled submersible explores the ocean depths in…
In Puerto Rico, cocaine gains access to U.S.
By Lizette Alvarez From New York Times SAN JUAN, P.R. — With its navigation lights off, the 35-foot speedboat raced north toward Puerto Rico one night this month, its two large engines at full throttle. Above, a Coast Guard helicopter…
In pursuit of the Caribbean’s hidden dangers
By Jeffrey Marlow From WIRED An octopus lingers near a bed of giant mussels discovered at a new methane seep in the Caribbean Sea. (Image: Ocean Exploration Trust) The world’s oceans are a source of wonderment, sustenance, and, at times,…
American Airlines crash landing could have been avoided – report
From Caribbean360 KINGSTON, Jamaica, Wednesday May 7, 2014, CMC – Five years after an American Airlines jet ran off the runway at the Norman Manley International Airport, the final report on the investigation into the incident has been released. In…
Shrimp ban agreed in Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea
By Analia Murias From FIS In order to protect the shrimp breeding and development periods, the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) established ban seasons and areas for catching all shrimp species in seawater and estuary…
Caribbean religious leaders inspire IMF Sunday schools
By Eric LeCompte From Caribbean360 WASHINGTON D.C., United States, IPS – Last Fall, I witnessed the Grenada Council of Churches insert themselves into negotiations between their government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) around the island’s debt restructuring and presumed…
ESPN to distribute 2016 Summer Olympics
The International Olympic Committee Awards Broadcast Rights To The 2016 Summer Olympics In The Caribbean To Canoc Broadcasting Inc. (CBI) ESPN named official television producer and distributor of RIO 2016 in the West Indies The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has…
Forget the beach: 10 death-defying Caribbean adventures [Cayman included]
By Cherese Weekes From Travel Pulse The islands of the Caribbean are not only paradises for beach bums and sunbathers, they are also ideal for world-class adventures. So if you think the only way to cool off from the sun’s…
SMILE!
SMILE! Diver taking pictures of life underwater gets photobombed by a grinning shark in the Bahamas By Julian Robinson From Daily Mail UK Shark swims into shot as photographer Jeffrey Haines takes snaps of diver Inquisitive lemon shark bares its teeth…
