Netherlands Antilles and Aruba The Netherlands Antilles and Aruba consists of six islands in two widely separated groups located in the Caribbean Sea. All six islands are well-known to North Americans and Europeans as tourist destinations. Although...

The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles are divided geographically into two groups: the Leeward Islands (Benedenwindse Eilanden) and the Windward Islands (Bovenwindse Eilanden). The Windward group, off the north coast of South America, comprises...

The Netherlands Antilles (Dutch: Nederlandse Antillen (help·info)), previously known as the Netherlands West Indies or Dutch Antilles/West Indies, is part of the Lesser Antilles and consists of two groups of islands in the Caribbean Sea: Curaçao...

Highlights and Key Issues * An H1 drop in US tourist arrivals, felt across the Caribbean, confirms the outlook for only modest growth this year, with political worries preventing any upturn in 2008. Curacao's aim of emulating Aruba's postsecession tourism growth was promoted...

The Netherlands Antilles consists of a group of five islands in the Caribbean Sea. Two, Curacao and Bonaire, are situated near the coast of Venezuela, and the other three, St. Maarten, St. Eustatius, and Saba, are situated near the United States Virgin Islands....

Tainted peanut butter that caused salmonella in 41 of the 50 U.S. states also was sold in more than 60 other countries on three other continents and islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the manufacturer says.It was sold in Iraq, Iceland, India. American Virgin...

World record holder Asafa Powell won the 100 meters Tuesday with the fastest sprint in the world this year.Powell led from start to finish to clock 9.97 seconds in his season-opening return from a bout with knee tendinitis at the Artur Takac Memorial meet.Churandy Martina,...