There’s a stretch of sand in St. Barts where the afternoons feel slower than the rest of the island. The water at Flamands Beach stays wide and bright blue all day, the waves roll in softly enough for long swims, and the beach never gets crowded in the way people expect from St. Barts. You […]
Enterprise Holdings, the world’s largest car rental company, is expanding in the Caribbean. The company’s Enterprise-Rent-A-Car brand officially began operating in Curacao this week, with operations now underway at the Hato Airport outside Willemstad. “There’s tremendous growth potential for both corporate and leisure car rental in Latin America,” said Peter A. Smith, vice president of […]
“Dangerous” Hurricane Matthew began bearing down on Haiti as “life-threatening” rain, wind and storm surges started to spread over portions of the country, according to the National Hurricane Center. The storm remained a category four, with maximum sustained winds at 145 mph The storm is the strongest to make landfall in Haiti in more than […]
Hurricane Matthew continued to move northward Monday as hurricane warnings and watches remained in effect across the northern Caribbean and the Atlantic. While the storm turned toward the north (from a northwest trajectory) on Sunday night, it retained much of its Category 4 strength. Hurricane warnings remained in effect for Jamaica, Haiti and the Cuban provinces of […]
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