SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico_An American Airlines jet made a safe emergency landing Monday in the Turks and Caicos Islands after the crew noticed an unusual smell inside the cabin, local authorities said.
The Boeing 737-800, carrying 109 people, was roughly halfway through its flight from Miami to the Caribbean island of St. Lucia when it landed [...]

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HAVANA _ Cuba is unsure it will attend the Central American and Caribbean Games in Puerto Rico, unhappy with visa restrictions and other regulations.
In a statement Friday published in the state-run newspaper Granma, officials of the Cuban Olympic Committee said none of the responses from Puerto Rican sports authorities and games officials had met their [...]

Royal Caribbean President and CEO Adam Goldstein said the decision to continue with scheduled stops in Labadee was an easy one. The site sustained no damage, and he said the Haitian government welcomed the ship. The country reaps a fixed cost per passenger, plus annual fees and the cash tourists spend on local goods at a marketplace where artisans and artists sell trinkets and crafts

TEMPE, Arizona: US Airways is raising baggage fees by $5 each way, per bag.
The higher fees are the same as those set in recent days by Delta, Continental, and United.
US Airways said on Friday it will charge $25 each way for the first bag, and $35 for a second bag. The increase takes effect for [...]

The story of Abdulmutallab, a staunch Muslim who was schooled in Britain and other places and the son of a wealthy Nigerian banker and politician, is not the kind of story Nigerians say their nation needs at this critical time.

Jamaica has increased security at its two main airports following a Christmas Day bombing attempt on a U.S. airliner.

Police in the Bahamas say a 13-year-old fatally stabbed an adult cousin after they argued over use of a computer

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CARIBBEAN: 9 killed in fire on Greek-owned cargo ship off Venezuela’s Caribbean coast; 5 injured
CARACAS, Venezuela _ A Venezuelan navy official says a fire on a Greek-owned cargo ship in the Caribbean has killed nine crew members and injured five.
Adm. Carlos Maximo Aniasi Turchio tells Venezuelan state television that six of the dead crew [...]

Haitian arts and culture is in full bloom in the ‘Little Haiti’ community of South Florida

The number of travelers to Cuba has also been boosted by the Obama administration’s decision to let Cuban-Americans with family on the island visit as often as they like.

No life lost as American Airlines Flight 331 skidded off the runway as it landed in heavy rain Tuesday night in Kingston, Jamaica, arriving from Washington’s Reagan National Airport by way of Miami.

The pilot of an American Airlines jetliner that overshot a runway in Jamaica is praising his crew for their quick thinking and professionalism.
Captain Brian Cole said Saturday that he’s “just so happy to be home” with his family for the Christmas holiday.
Flight 331 was landing in Kingston, Jamaica, late Tuesday in heavy rain on a [...]

Airline safety investigators from the United States are on their way to Jamaica to try and help find out why an American Airlines flight careened down a runway and stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea.
Jamaican officials say 44 people were injured during American Airlines Flight 331’s rough landing Tuesday.
Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation [...]

A Christmas miracle for passengers aboard an American Airlines jet in Kingston, Jamaica