Posts in category Caribbean News

By ANNE-MARIE GARCIA Associated Press HAVANA — Cubans welcomed the news Wednesday that Pope Francis will visit in September, with many calling it a powerful …

I asked an older Cuban friend once, why she hated the Democratic party. She was losing her vision and couldn’t walk very well — her …

HAVANA, Cuba — On Sunday Cuba held its first local elections since a historic thaw in relations with the United States with an unusual wrinkle …

We say we are “Caribbean” like we’re really all one ubiquitous people connected by something other than location. We do have a common spirit linked …

KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Jamaican teenager has been detained in Suriname on suspicion of being a would-be militant hoping to join Islamic extremists. In a …

DAVID I. MUIR/FOR SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES The island of Jamaica had not been visited by a sitting US president since a 1982 trip by Ronald …

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEACHHOUSE.COM By EZEQUIEL ABIU LOPEZ SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A Dominican Republic resort long known as an exclusive Caribbean hideaway, where …

By OMAR MILLAN Associated Press SAN QUINTIN, Mexico — Workers at large, export-oriented farms in the Mexican border state of Baja California have led a …

When you grow up in the Caribbean, and probably in any black neighborhood in the world, political correctness is something you only hear about on …

ALEXANDRA HARRIS/FOR SOUTH FLORIDA TIMES The first Caribbean cooking show on PBS brings together two dynamic personalities determined to live life on their own terms. …