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The winter season was once the time of the year when travelers would flock to the Caribbean to escape the cold-but that's not the case anymore,

The updated warning was published on Jan. 17, but the department noted there were no updates or modifications to risk factors travelers may face on the island. "Violent crime is a risk throughout Jamaica. The homicide rate reported by the Government of Jamaica is among the highest in the Western Hemisphere," the State Department wrote in its advisory, but added "Tourist areas generally see lower rates of violent crime than other parts of the country."

Go these days to any independent bookshop or art gallery or zine fair, and you may find yourself asking: where are the humans? Title after title is devoted to clay and stone, trees and flowers, the riverine and the botanical, gardens and allotments. They share a vocabulary: care, tending, grounding, rootedness, nourishment, regeneration. Nature, however battered, is held up as an antidote to morbid modernity, its alienations, its amnesia.

When temperatures dip and daylight feels scarce, the promise of sunshine becomes hard to resist-especially when it doesn't come with a sky-high price tag. To identify the cheapest warm-weather destinations to visit this season, we partnered with the team at , which analyzed flight searches made between Sept. 1 and Dec. 4, 2025, for travel dates spanning Dec. 21, 2025, through Feb. 28, 2026, departing from U.S. airports. Airfare prices reflect round-trip, economy itineraries, while hotel rates are nightly averages based on standard, double-occupancy rooms. All prices are averages, subject to change.

Tropical Storm Melissa lumbered through the Caribbean Sea on Thursday, bringing a risk of dangerous landslides and life-threatening flooding to Jamaica and southern Hispaniola. Officials urged residents of flood-prone areas to seek higher ground. The storm was blamed for downing a large tree that killed an elderly man in the coastal town of Marigot in southern Haiti, while five other people were injured in flooding in the central Artibonite area, according to the Civil Protection Agency.

"Port Royal's recent designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site is significant, validating the relevance of its history to Jamaica and the world," said Michelle and Suzanne Rousseau.

Annie Palmer, the White Witch of Rose Hall, is remembered as a sadistic 19th-century enslaver who terrorised enslaved people before her own death at the hands of her lover.

The deported group included individuals described as 'so uniquely barbaric that their home countries refused to take them back,' an assertion the Jamaican government strongly refutes.

Police from the 103rd Precinct are searching for three teenagers involved in a shooting incident near the LIRR train station on July 7.