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U.S. Airlines Add COVID-19 Testing to Popular Caribbean Destinations

CANCUN — U.S. airlines are adding flights, and in some cases COVID-19 testing programs, for travel to Mexico and the Caribbean, a region central to carriers’ strategies to tap into…

VI Free Press November 25, 2020

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Cruise Ship Magazine Picks St. Thomas As No. 1 Caribbean Port of Call

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — St. Thomas has been named the top cruise destination in the Caribbean for the second year in a row. The award was determined by readers of Porthole…

VI Free Press November 24, 2020

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Columbian Man Arrested In Aruba Charged With Murder Of Transgender Sex Worker In Australia

ORANJESTAD — A 21-year-old Colombian man has been extradited from the Netherlands Antilles to Sydney and charged with the murder of an Australian woman. The body of 69-year-old Kimberley McRae…

VI Free Press November 24, 2020

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‘Minor’ Earthquake Shakes Tortola and Sandy Ground Village In Anguilla Sunday

ROAD TOWN, Tortola — A minor earthquake occurred Sunday afternoon northeast of the British Virgin Islands. No injuries were reported. The 3.6 magnitude struck about 63 miles northeast of Tortola…

VI Free Press November 23, 2020

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Tropical Disturbance Appears Northeast Of The Caribbean: NHC

MIAMI — With a just a little more than a week left in hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is once again monitoring an area of low pressure that has…

VI Free Press November 22, 2020

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Saharan Dust Still A Problem In The Caribbean Even As Hurricane Season On The Wane

NASSAU — An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of storm clouds rising over Andros Island, one of the Bahama Islands. Even though the spacecraft was…

VI Free Press November 22, 2020

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Caribbean Nations Explore New Ideas, Directions To Recover From Pandemic

MIAMI — Caribbean experts assessed the coronavirus’s impact on the region in a webinar on Thursday hosted by the University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas. Owing…

VI Free Press November 21, 2020

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Banana Growers On Guadeloupe, Martinique Poisoned By A Carcinogenic Pesticide

BASSE-TERRE — The results of a French parliamentary commission of inquiry into the use of the carcinogenic pesticide chlordecone in the Guadeloupe and Martinique show that the government “consistently failed”…

VI Free Press November 21, 2020

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The United States And The Caribbean: Time To Seize The Moment By David Jessop

It is easy to share the excitement felt across the Caribbean at President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory in the U.S. polls. However, a calmer voice within suggests that while the outcome…

David Jessop November 18, 2020

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Is $50.95 Too Much To Pay For 7 Pounds of Oxtail From The Local Supermarket?

Somebody asked on social media today if $51.00 is too much to pay for about seven pounds of oxtail? Well, it depends where you are buying the oxtails from and…

VI Free Press November 18, 2020