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The 2023 sargassum season started early at the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Around the end of March, staff launched the response …
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With its seaside villas, luxury resorts and yachting anchorages, Virgin Gorda is known for laidback luxury. But last August, the island’s residents started complaining about the foetid odour of their …
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Biofuel. Bricks. Paper. Beauty products. A carbon capture system. Many Caribbean entrepreneurs see an unprecedented economic opportunity in the sargassum that has regularly swamped the region since 2011. But despite …
Alongside surfing greats like Gabriel Medina and John John Florence, three young men from the Virgin Islands faced off against some of the world’s best surfers last month in Puerto …
From Thursday to Monday during this tourism season, travellers will be able to fly between Virgin Gorda and Puerto Rico aboard eight-seater planes operated by the Connecticut-based airline Tradewind Aviation. …
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Though July is in the heart of the summer season, the holiday spirit was alive and well in the Virgin Islands over the weekend. The annual Christmas in July event …
Residents of Puerto Rico in the midst of recovering from Hurricane Dorian faced another natural disaster this week. Early Tuesday morning, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network reported a 6.6-magnitude earthquake …
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From Nanny Cay to Virgin Gorda to Anegada to seemingly everywhere in between, this year’s “Christmas in July” was a virtual phalanx of Puerto Rican- flagged boats, with about 450 …
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As Virgin Islands residents took stock of hurricane devastation last year, they also heard reports trickling in from more than a dozen other countries and territories throughout the Caribbean that …
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Tourism problems, tourism solutions At a tourism stakeholder meeting hosted by the BVI Tourist Board on Tuesday morning, one attendee raised his hand and made an interesting point: Some of …
PUERTO RICO CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM — Dinelle Henley fears for her native Cane Garden Bay, one of the most iconic and pristine beaches of the Caribbean. Like much of the …
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