LAC (Latin America and the Caribbean) countries reportedly could have been twice richer. This is according to the findings of World Bank in Understanding the Income and Efficiency Gap in the Caribbean and Latin America. These countries considered being one of the fastest growing of the 2000s.
Hurricane experts at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) as well as with AccuWeather are closely monitoring a tropical system over the northern Leeward Islands that has potential to strengthen significantly and become Tropical Storm Hermine, the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic Hurricane Season, by this weekend. The system poses a threat to land, as well as a distinct possibility of striking the Florida Peninsula from the southwest as a hurricane, the first hurricane to make landfall in that area and from that direction since Katrina in 2005.
Hurricane Season 2016 is picking up steam, with Tropical Storm Gaston having formed in the Atlantic on Monday. Tropical Storms Fiona and Kay still linger in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (respectively), while three additional weather systems out at sea are all projected to strengthen to tropical cyclone status, and at least one expected to become the eigth named tropical storm in the Atlantic later this week.
The Zika virus is making Brazil's economy worse. The Zika virus has continuously made headlines in the past months. However, aside from the health risks it poses in Latin America, it also affects its economy.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his eagerness to act on the Syrian refugee crisis as well as extend its trade relationship with Latin America and the Caribbeans.
Years ago, Peruvian gastronomical culture has never always been the world's "next big thing." But one day, a man created a change. He revolutionized the culinary field in Peru which turned the world upside down. Today, Peru has become one of the world's leading culinary capitals. The man who is guilty of starting that change is none other than Chef Gaston Acurio.
New details have emerged in the case of Jessica Lewis Colker, the American tourist who was brutally murdered in the Caribbean island of Grenada over the weekend.
A woman and her husband's vacation in paradise quickly turned into a nightmare. Tourists enjoying a vacation on the Caribbean island of Grenada were shocked by very tragic news on Sunday.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recently issued a travel warning for 14 Latin American nations and Caribbean territories that have exposed to Zika virus, a mosquito-borne virus connected to the increasing rate of birth defects in Brazil. The alert was issued late Friday and it includes Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.
Demi Lovato and longtime boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama shared some major PDA while on vacation. Demi Lovato and longtime boyfriend Wilmer Valderrama shared some major PDA while on vacation.
According to the Panorama Laboral de América Latina y el Caribe 2014, the urban unemployment rate for the region may in 2015 go to as high as 6.3 percent.
Puerto Rico is facing an epidemic with the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya infecting over 10,000 people in the nation, according to a statement from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Thursday.
A new study finds that unless drastic steps are taken, most coral in the Caribbean could be gone Most coral reefs in the Caribbean Sea are likely to be gone in the next 20 years as a result of overfishing and pollution, a study by the International Council for the Conservation of Nature found.
The airline will now offer flights from the U.S. to the Caribbean Southwest Airlines on Tuesday flew into uncharted territory for the company, with its first-ever international flight, according to a story from USA Today.
Latin America and the Caribbean, it seems, are two of the most blood-soaked regions on the planet. Statistics indicate that 30 percent of the world's homicides occur in the Latin American and Caribbean region.
Get yourselves ready for another rum soaked pirate adventure in the Caribbean. Get yourselves ready for another rum soaked pirate adventure in the Caribbean.
