We have just begun the Hurricane season for 2010 and predictions are grim. NOAA predicts an 85% chance of an above-average hurricane season this year, not good news when oil continues to be spewed out of the BP oil pipe in the Gulf of Mexico. View satellite images of the oil spill and their page [...]
(Gulf oil spill – updated July 16, 2010) A amazing video of projections on how the gulf oil spill will disperse from its original location. It turns out, if this projection is accurate, that this oil spill may have minimal or no affect on the Caribbean area, but you never know. A satellite image of [...]
Is it just me or does there seem to be a flurry of earthquakes over the past month or so? Here’s a real-time map of earthquakes around the world. Click the map to go to the website and then click on the Caribbean region to see and follow earthquakes there. Have you experienced an earthquake [...]
After 40 years, Costa Rica will allow competitors in cell phone coverage The Costa Rica Electricity Institue (ICE) has been the only government run provider for the last 40 years, but this will all change starting in February 2010. According to the Financial Times, the five leading Latin American and Caribbean cell phone providers are [...]
Haiti is recovering from a 7.0 Earthquake that hit Jan 12 just before 5pm A Tsunami warning was issued for parts of the Caribbean, but later dismissed. “I think it is really a catastrophe of major proportions,” Haiti Ambassador Raymond Joseph told CNN. Houses fell into a ravine and the full extent of the damage [...]
Latin America and the Caribbean lost 2.2 million jobs in 2009 amid the global economic crisis, according to a Business Week article. The unemployment rate is 8.4% and the total number of unemployed is 18.1 million. Does this mean there are no jobs available for us Caribbean job seekers? I don’t believe so. A review [...]
Hotel will open in Jacmel Haiti May 2010 According to Business Week, Comfort Inn has announced it will open it’s first Hotel in Haiti in more than a decade. It will be a small hotel, only 32 rooms, but there is also plans to build a 120 room Hotel at nearby Belle Rive. Here’s their [...]
Airtran now offers weekly service from Atlanta to Aruba and has said it will will be introducting flights from Orlando to Aruba on Jan 9. AP article
Hard Rock International will be opening an all-inclusive resort and casino in the Dominican Republic. The Hard Rock chain is well known for its music memorabilia collection and also runs hotels and casinos in Tampa and Hollywood. The new resort lies on 121 acres in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic (see map below). There will 1800 [...]
Canadian carrier Westjet started new seasonal non-stop flights to the Caribbean. Westjet now flies to: Barbados Mexico Cuba Bahamas Dominican Republic Jamaica St Maarten Turks and Caicos. They have a new non-stop flight to Turks and Caicos, leaving Toronto three times a week at 10am and arriving at 1:50pm. See all their destinations. I’ve flown [...]