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South Florida’s wet, dreary weather is likely to continue into the weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center. The center is monitoring a system that is heading slowly toward the Gulf of Mexico with the potential to cause heavy rainfall here. It has been given a 40 percent chance of ...

Hurricanes Irma, Maria, and Jose may have struck parts of the Caribbean last year causing widespread devastation, but a new tourism campaign expected to launch by July has a strong message: the Caribbean won’t be washed away. The campaign will focus on which islands, hotels, resorts, and attractions are operational, ...

  By the Caribbean Journal staff There’s another real estate project coming to one of the Caribbean’s greatest beaches. Baraud Developments has announced the launch of the new Eleven Parc project, a collection of luxury townhomes on Seven Mile Beach in Grand Cayman. The new Cayman Islands’ newest boutique real ...

Last summer, Puerto Rican tourism officials were getting flooded with calls about “Despacito” (“Slowly”), the sexy megahit by Puerto Rican crooners Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee that made history as the most streamed song of all time. But nowadays they’re much more likely to get calls from people in the ...

Alan Gomez  |  USA TODAY KEY WEST – After Hurricane Irma tore through the Florida Keys, T.J. Reynolds was told he had to leave the house he was renting because of damage from the storm. He spent several months staying with friends in this island city as he looked for a ...

The RAF is 100 years old on 1 April 2018. The winged service has its own London museum in Colindale. If you’ve never visited before, this article is here to give you a jolly good prod up the fuselage. Here are 10 reasons to discover it. 1. Planes, dozens of ...

CLOSE USA TODAY first met Michelle Rebollo collecting water on a mountainside days after Maria. The small business owner struggles to pay bills since tourism has dwindled. She and her family now have power, but every day or two they have to manage outages. USA TODAY Michelle Rebollo cooks dinner ...

CLOSE USA TODAY first met Michelle Rebollo collecting water on a mountainside days after Maria. The small business owner struggles to pay bills since tourism has dwindled. She and her family now have power, but every day or two they have to manage outages. USA TODAY Michelle Rebollo cooks dinner ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: In the U.S. Virgin Islands, one of the areas hit hardest by hurricanes Irma and Maria was the national park on St. John. St. John is a small island with just 5,000 full-time residents. The national park is its greatest attraction. It covers more than half the ...

Palm Beach County has seen its tourism tax collections soar in the four months since hurricanes tore through the Florida Keys and the Caribbean. The September storms caused widespread damage in the middle Keys, Puerto Rico and other tropical vacation spots, leaving hoteliers with fewer rooms to rent out. As ...