The video below shows the Caribbean island of Barbados as you've never seen it before - using a drone . It was created by Above Barbados as part of Telegraph Travel's long-form feature, Barbados through the eyes of its cricketers.     … [Read more...]

InfoDev has released a report examining women's entrepreneurship in the Caribbean: Profiling Caribbean Women Entrepreneurs: Business Environment, Sectoral Constraints and Programming Lessons There is a paucity of information on women entrepreneurs in the Caribbean region. This InfoDev report seeks to redress this and seeks to develop an understanding of the main issues facing … [Read more...]

  View of Sandy Beach from the veranda of my apartment in Worthing, Barbados - taken on Saturday morning, July 12. 2014. It's the hurricane season, so a few storms around. But you can always find days like this one. At certain times of the year, the sea removes a lot of the sand and so reveals the rocks shown here. At other times, very few of these rocks … [Read more...]

For the second year in a row, Ambergris Caye takes top honors. The beautiful Belize island offers the perfect blend of modern development and laid-back tranquility. A mangrove swamp is the eye of this white beach island, the largest in Belize, and golf carts are the main form of transportation along the sandy roads. Reef divers drool over the Belize Barrier Reef and the Blue … [Read more...]

After a 12-year absence from the Winter Olympic games, the Jamaican bobsled team is making a catchy comeback. According to the Jamaican Tourist Board, this groovy reggae tune, titled "The Bobsled Song," syncs perfectly with the Olympic bobsled track's twists and turns. The song was written by Sidney Mills and Jon Notard, and features a bright 8-bit music video that … [Read more...]

In 2002, Janti was working as a environmental volunteer and assigned the task to come up with a way to clean the beaches of Union Island, in St Vincent and the Grenadines, which were littered with huge piles of conch shells. These conch shells had built up over the years by fishermen discarding the shells once they had removed the mollusk from inside. Janti collected the … [Read more...]

Across the Caribbean, food imports have become a budget-busting problem, prompting one of the world’s most fertile regions to reclaim its agricultural past. But instead of turning to big agribusinesses, officials are recruiting everyone they can to combat the cost of imports, which have roughly doubled in price over the past decade. In Jamaica, Haiti, the Bahamas and elsewhere, … [Read more...]