Not the Best Start By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Allianz, the international medical insurance company my daughter works for, decided to send her for a week to the Dominican Republic (DR) to check out hospitals across the island, so I decided to tag along to keep her company and to get to know the country firsthand. As it turned
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS Roma Bistrot is a small, unassuming boutique eatery situated off the Río de Janeiro Plaza in Mexico City’s fashionable Colonia Roma. Opened last October, its objective is to offer quality French cuisine with a Caribbean twist, and, for the most part, it accomplishes that goal, although there are a couple of dishes on the menu that seem
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By RICH GRANT The U.S. Virgin Island of St. John is only three by five miles – the size of Manhattan – but for such a small place, it is ringed with some of the most famous beaches on the planet. A full 60 percent of this green, mountainous paradise is protected from development as part of the Virgin Islands
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By RICH GRANT Everyone knows George Washington was first in war and first in peace … but first in picking Caribbean vacations? George only left the continental U.S. once in his lifetime, and that was to sail to the Caribbean island of Barbados. The then-19-year-old George went with his ailing half-brother Lawrence in the hopes that the warm winter
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During the “Golden Age of Piracy,” the greatest conglomeration of pirates the world has ever known assembled at Nassau and created an actual Pirate Republic that terrorized the Americas and even challenged the European powers of Britain, France and Spain
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS After more than four years in Mexico, Jamaican Ambassador Sandra Anita Grant Griffiths will be returning home to Kingston at the end of this month. But before she left, Algerian Ambassador Rabah Hadid and his wife Farida Hadid, in cooperation with the heads of mission of the entire diplomatic corps accredited in Mexico, offered a lavish sit-down
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