By Frank Martin Sargassum is a marine alga that inhabits the world's temperate and tropical oceans in shallow waters and coral reefs. It is also an increasingly feared enemy by the tourism industry in the Caribbean and especially on some Mexican beaches. It may seem harmless at first glance. But it will suffice to mention a feared phenomenon linked to its increase in the seas to fear it: climate change with its ally global warming. One scientific discovery that seems irrefutable is that abnormally warming of world’s seas are causing currents that are carrying more and more sargassum into the Caribbean including waters near the Mexican coast. These high temperatures have been getting worse for almost a century and a half. Something that makes the phenomenon visible is the increasingly concentration of sargassum. Since 2015, the year in which climate change became very evident due to the temperature in the Caribbean [...]

By Frank Martin As always, the new year is going fast, but the first quarter of 2023, at the end, has shown something crucial. That is that the recovery after the global pandemic is also going smoothly. The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), one of the most important entities in this world economic branch, has just announced that prospects for the recovery process have been extended from January to March. Nicola Madden-Greig, who chairs the CHTA, further published that "the Caribbean region as a whole is proving to be the fastest recovering sector globally, ahead of the Asian, US and European markets." For Madden-Creig , Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda are three tourist destinations in the Eastern Caribbean that are regionally leading the restoration of the leisure industry to the levels it had before the pandemic. Those islands have had the additional achievement of being the most resilient in this part [...]