It's called barter. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said Central American and Caribbean states could pay for oil with services or products like bananas and sugar.

Royal Caribbean and Tui Cruises join forces to bring cruising to the growing German market. The cruise line will be custom-tailored to German tastes, and encompass food, entertainment and amenities. German will be the language used onboard as well.

There are always lots of new restaurants opening on St. Maarten / St. Martin (We are the restaurant Capital of the Caribbean after all) but it’s only when something really special opens that we choose to let all of you know and this one is an absolute winner in all categories. Food, Price, Atmosphere, Attitude. It’s got it all.

Have you already tried Caribbean food? I had definitely not until I visited Eaton Restaurant. Well, what can I say: Was great! All kinds of fish, combined with exotic fruits. Extraordinary! Have to go there for yourself.

The forces of nature are giving Nicaragua no respite. After the hurricane that devastated the country’s northeastern Caribbean coast in September, weeks of torrential rains have claimed lives and caused economic damages, and now the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is warning of famine.

The British African Caribbean community are residents of the United Kingdom who are of West Indian background, and whose ancestors were indigenous to Africa.As immigration to the United Kingdom from Africa increased in the 1990s, the term has been used to include UK residents solely of African origin, or as a term to define all Black British residents, though this is usually denoted by "African and Caribbean". The most common and traditional use of the term Afro-Caribbean community is in reference to groups of residents continuing aspects of Caribbean culture, customs and traditions in the United Kingdom.The largest proportion of the African-Caribbean population in the UK are of Jamaican origin; others trace origins to nations such as Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Grenada, Montserrat, Dominica, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Guyana, which though located on the South American mainland, has close cultural ties to the Caribbean, and was historically considered to be part of the British West Indies, and Belize (formerly British Honduras), in Central America, which culturally is more akin to the English-speaking Caribbean than to Latin America, due to its colonial and still-extant economic ties to the UK.African-Caribbean communities exist throughout the United Kingdom, though by far the largest concentrations are in London, Birmingham and the broader West Midlands conurbation. Significant communities also exist in other population centres, notably Manchester, Nottingham, Coventry, Luton, Leicester, Bristol, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Cardiff. In these cities the community is traditionally associated with a particular area, such as Chapeltown in Leeds or St. Pauls in Bristol.