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M.A. Dworkin Puerto Rico - The former Puerto Rico Naval Station, Roosevelt Roads, after being shuttered by the Navy in 2004, is back in...

M.A. Dworkin Santo Domingo - Amazon Air has begun operating dedicated cargo flights from Miami, Florida to the Dominican Republic (DR),...

M.A. Dworkin San Juan, P.R. - The U.S. has ordered 10 F-35 Fighter Jets to be deployed to Puerto Rico, arriving next week, as the Trump Administration steps up its war on drug cartels. The planes are being sent to an airfield to conduct operations against designated narco-terrorist organizations, bolstering an already strong U.S. military presence in the Southern Caribbean. The development comes just days after President Trump revealed the U.S. military had killed 11 p

M.A. Dworkin Havana, Cuba - Cuba is one of 19 countries listed in President Trump’s latest travel ban. U.S. citizens were already...

M.A. Dworkin Caribbean Sea - Over the last decade, China and Russia have focused on the Caribbean Basin. Beijing has invested billions in trade and infrastructure deals, while also establishing a spy base in Cuba. Moscow has taken a more threatening approach, with joint weapons sales, training, and joint military exercises. In recent days, the US Navy has deployed warships to the Caribbean near Central and South America for counter-narcotics operations. The force includ

St. Croix Times Staff Havana, Cuba - The U.S. has revoked visas and imposed restrictions on former Pan American Health Organization...

A.J. Pike Hollywood - After decades of wild rumors and greatly exaggerated tales, Rock Legend Alice Cooper has finally set the record straight on rock ‘n’ roll’s most enduring myth: The truth about the infamous “Chicken Incident” is actually wilder and more incredible than the legend that has built up around it for all these years. The 77 year-old Shock Rock pioneer finally spilled the tea on what really happened that night at Toronto’s Peace Festival in 1969. The rev

A.J. Pike Hollywood - There have been few greater unfulfilled romances on the silver screen than the Whitney Houston-Kevin Costner connection in The Bodyguard. If you didn’t shed a few tears by the time the movie ends, you probably need to check and see if your heart is still in its rightful place. Any devoted fan of these two legends could easily feel the reality of their body language, and read between the lines of the script to know there was something else goi

St. Croix Times Staff Kingston, Jamaica - “Jamaica will not waiver in its pursuit of reparations for slavery,” Minister of Culture,...

A.J. Pike The Blue Waters of the Caribbean - Five Eastern Caribbean nations: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and...

John F. McKeon (Photo:Flag of Spanish Puerto Rico) Puerto Rico is a “country” within a country, with its own traditions, culture and...

John F. McKeon To an observant historian the most commonplace objects can be the key to an intriguing history. One such object is a forged iron manhole cover I came across on Company Street in downtown Christiansted. I spied this prominent hunk of iron slab laid flat near the gutter on a ramble in Christiansted that took me along East Street and down Company Street. While pausing at the corner for a passing car, I spotted this unusual piece of history that had survived