The sign on the side of the road got me. It was black, and hand-painted. “Bar on the Beach.” That’s not a sign I can easily refuse. And, unsurprisingly, I was quickly rewarded, here on one of the most intriguingly-named beaches in the Caribbean. For starters, it’s cool here. No, the mercury reads somewhere […]
Above: migrants at sea (Photo: UNHRC/A Di Loreto) By the Caribbean Journal staff The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is expressing concern at the recent incident in which a boat of migrants from Haiti capsized in the Bahamas. That incident led to the deaths of at least 30 people. It was the latest in […]
Above: Haiti’s police band at the ceremony (All photos: OP Haiti) By the Caribbean Journal staff Haiti paused Saturday to remember the greatest tragedy in the country’s history — a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that took the lives of nearly 320,000 Haitians on Jan. 12, 2010. On Saturday, three years later, memorials were led by a ceremony […]
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