Cricket at Caribbean? Book now!
Byline: Vishwas Gautam It is time to plan for the biggest festival of 'em all World Cup Cricket 2007. But if you are planning to visit the Caribbean islands and have a first-hand dekko at the matches, follow this advice: Plan your itinerary in advance....

Leggy lizards adapt fast.
Sometimes, evolutionary selection can happen within a single generation of a species, research now shows. In response to a new predator, lizards on several Caribbean islands underwent selection first for long legs and then for short legs. When the brown anolis lizard (Anolis sagrei) lives free of...

The Dominican Republic at a glance.
The Dominican Republic is the second-largest nation in area and population in the Caribbean islands. The country suffers from marked income inequality, and macroeconomic adjustments in recent decades actually reduced spending for education and health (PAHO 2001). The service sector has overtaken agricultural exports as the primary Dominican industries,...

Domino moves.
[NY] Women reminisced. Couples danced the salsa. Men sat hunched over small white tables in a game of dominoes, a cultural pastime of the Caribbean Islands. Transported to the streets of New York, dominoes serve as the theme of Gabri Christa's Dominata (below), performed at Dance Theater Workshop last...

Caribbean extinctions: climate change probably wasn't the culprit.
Remains of extinct sloths unearthed in Cuba and Haiti indicate that the creatures persisted in Caribbean enclaves until about 4,200 years ago. Such a recent demise practically absolves post-ice age global warming as the cause of die-offs among these mammals and could undermine climate change as the trigger for...

"Too oft allur'd by Ethiopic charms"? Sex, slaves and society in John Singleton's A General Description of the West-Indian Islands (1767).
In 1767, the Barbados firm of George Esmand and William Walker printed for its author, John Singleton, A General Description of the West-Indian Islands, As far as relates to the British, Dutch and Danish Governments, from Barbados to Saint Croix. (1) This was, as the title page noted, "Attempted...

Academic achievement among Caribbean immigrant adolescents: the impact of generational status on academic self-concept.
Caribbean American immigrant students, who represent one of the largest subgroups in the Black population in the United States, exhibit low achievement scores and high dropout rates, which are both correlated with lifelong negative employment and psychosocial outcomes. To understand how immigrant status may impact academic achievement in this...

Get Hot When It's Cold: The Orbitz Insider Picks This Year's Top Caribbean Getaways.
Orbitz Sale Saves Travelers $150 or More on Vacation Packages 'Orbitz Travel Mom' Picks Top Family-Friendly Islands CHICAGO, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Strip off the winter jacket, throw down the snow shovel and head south for the winter. Travelers seeking a respite from the icy...

Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo.
Creole Religions of the Caribbean: An Introduction from Vodou and Santeria to Obeah and Espiritismo. By Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Religion, Race, and Ethnicity Series. New York: New York University Press, 2003. x + 262 pp. $19.00 paper. Creole Religions of the Caribbean is a...

Crossing the boundaries of the "Burn": Canadian multiculturalism and Caribbean hybridity in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring.
Nalo Hopkinson's Brown Girl in the Ring (1998) is set in a near-future Toronto where the affluent businesses, residents, and authorities have withdrawn to the suburbs. Those citizens who are too poor to leave the inner city have to fend for themselves in an environment wracked by urban decay...