THE deal was this: to find a luxury one-week holiday on a golf course in Barbados during peak season when the cricket was on – for under €1,000.

JUST over a mile off the coast of Haiti lies the world’s largest hospital ship.

AN American Airlines flight carrying 154 people skidded across a Jamaican runway in heavy rain, bouncing across the tarmac and injuring more than 40 people before it stopped just short of the Caribbean Sea, officials and witnesses said.

Russia flew two strategic long-range bombers to Venezuela today in the first such flight since the Cold War.

INDIAN DREAMS, a Dublin based travel company specialising in travel to the subcontinent don’t just offer the normal package holidays.

Thousands of Haitians sought shelter in schools as the death toll from Tropical Storm Noel rose to 143 across the Caribbean.

Hurricane Felix rapidly strengthened into a dangerous Category 5 storm as it headed through the Caribbean Sea towards Central America, where forecasters said it could make landfall with “potentially catastrophic” effect.

HURRICANE Dean grew into a major storm with 200km/h winds yesterday after it smashed into the Caribbean islands, knocking out power and setting off landslides before heading toward the oil and gas rigs of the Gulf of Mexico.

A Dutch national who sexually assaulted a five-year old child has been given a two years prison sentence by Judge Desmond Hogan at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

A strong earthquake shook parts of Cuba, Jamaica and the Cayman Islands today. There were no immediate reports of damages or injuries.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 rattled Trinidad and northern Venezuela today, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

KILKENNY hurling legend DJ Carey will swap Croke Park’s lush sward for a charity walk through tropical Caribbean scenery.

Hurricane Emily regained dangerous Category 4 strength today, frightening storm-weary islanders in Jamaica and Cayman Islands after ravaging Grenada.

Hurricane Emily strengthened dangerously today after slamming into Grenada, where it blasted out windows and flooded two main hospitals and tore roofs from homes still damaged by last year’s storms. At least one man was killed.

Hollywood hunk Leonardo DiCaprio is planning to open an eco-hotel after buying an island off the Belize coast.

THE United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.

The United States is moving on several fronts toward a global tsunami warning system following the Asian catastrophe.

Tiger Woods – now only the world’s third-best golfer – and Swedish bride Elin Nordegren came ashore on a skiff today from a yacht where they spent their wedding night after a sunset ceremony at a luxury Barbados’ resort.

Hurricane Ivan left Grenada a wasteland of flattened houses, twisted metal and splintered wood as it bore down on Jamaica with deadly winds and monstrous waves, prompting the Jamaican government to order half a million people to flee their homes.

Hurricane Ivan grew into the deadliest of storms today, packing winds of 160mph as it headed straight for Jamaica and left a devastated Grenada with 20 dead.

The most powerful hurricane to hit the Caribbean in a decade killed at least 15 people and devastated Grenada, damaging 90% of homes in the ”spice isle” and destroying a 17th-century prison that left criminals on the loose.

Hurricane Ivan, with winds of more than 140 mph, was barrelling across the Caribbean toward more holiday isles tonight after devastating Grenada.

Two British women attempting to becoming the first mother-daughter team to row across the Atlantic Ocean were just hours away from the finish line tonight.

A Caribbean castaway on the brink of death after 26 days adrift has been rescued by a Royal Navy warship after a sharp-eyed sailor spotted his boat dead in the water.

SCIENTISTS said the first global survey of the health of the world’s coral reefs shows they are in serious decline, with overfishing worsening a crisis situation.

A charter plane carrying seven Italians and four Venezuelans has crashed into the Caribbean Sea, but all aboard were rescued by Venezuela's National Guard and a private boat.