Destinations of the week
Six Best Cruises From Galveston for 2020 By Tanner Callais From CRUZELY The Port of Galveston in Texas has quickly grown from a niche port with a few cruises just a decade or two ago to offering some of the best cruises…
Cayman Islands considers gambling ban
By Jean Carter From USA Online Casino The Cayman Islands, which has long had a ban on gambling, is poised to consider a revision of the gaming law that has been one of the most punitive in the Caribbean. The…
Disruptive weather to hinder cleanup efforts across Caribbean this week
By Faith Eherts From AccuWeather An unsettled weather pattern will continue to plague the Caribbean for several days, threatening hurricane-ravaged areas with flooding rainfall and gusty winds. “A broad area of low pressure will continue to produce heavy showers and…
A surprising factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been how long their eggs took to hatch
By Kevin Loria From Business Insider Approximately 66 million years ago, a massive asteroid or comet smashed into the Earth near what we now think of as the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. On the other side of the world, in…
Cayman Islands now under Tropical Storm Watch. Six die in Dominican Republic due to flooding
From Soualiga Newsday 01 Aug 2016 SINT MAARTEN/CAYMAN ISLANDS – The Cayman Islands National Weather Service has issued a tropical storm watch as of 6.00pm on Monday. The tropical wave is becoming more organized as it moves westward. The system…
Tropical Storm likely to form in Caribbean
By: Bob Henson , 2:00 PM GMT on August 01, 2016 From Weather Underground Figure 1. Enhanced infrared image of Invest 97L as of 1245Z (8:45 am EDT) Monday, August 1, 2016. Image credit: CIRA/RAMMB/CSU. The tropical wave in the…