Text: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Miles (kilometers) from shore in the open Caribbean Sea, cruise ships are dumping ground-up glass, rags and cardboard packaging. But vessels in other waters such as the Baltic and North seas are prohibited from throwing any solid waste overboard other than food scraps. The difference? Many countries with coastlines on the world's most fragile seas abide by a United Nations dumping ban that requires them to treat ship-generated garbage on land. Caribbean islands, however, have yet to adopt the ban, saying they...
Royal Caribbean offers deals on trips from L.A. to Mexico
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake TribuneUpdated: 06/17/2009 12:07:20 PM MDT Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas is sailing out of Los Angeles this year to the Mexican Riviera, with family...
The Caribbean's beautiful and romantic St. Lucia
The Examiner
The Examiner
The view from Calabash Cove on St. Lucia Named “one of five places to see in your lifetime” by Oprah Winfrey, the stunningly beautiful Eastern Caribbean island of St. Lucia is known for green-forested...
PUBLIC AFFAIRS: Whither the Caribbean Community?
The Gleaner
The Gleaner
The bickering now taking place in CARICOM and the CSME is symptomatic of a larger concern of whether the goal is simply a large common market, or a genuine community that demonstrates how small countries with a similar...




