MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Montserrat, here we come! That's the word from Windstar Cruises, which says it'll begin offering Caribbean sailings that stop at the volcano-scarred island later this year. The ...

For first-time visitors to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, some of the local vocabulary evokes Geology 101. Words like “pyroclastic flow,” “seismic” and “dome collapse” pop up often in ...

The Caribbean region includes several destinations whose names are highly familiar to North American travelers. There are also several islands whose warm temperatures and blue waters stimulate the ...

There is only one place outside of Ireland that celebrates St. Patrick’s Day as a national public holiday: the island of Montserrat. The small pear-shaped island is about 40 square miles and is ...

I’m standing in the hardwood lookout pavilion on Jack Boy Hill, in the midst of terraced gardens and a herd of wandering goats, admiring the view of the Soufriere Hills Volcano. Trying to, anyway. On ...

A cobble beach on the island of Montserrat, also known as the Emerald Isle of the Caribbean. t.m. urban Shutterstock Almost 25 years after the tiny island of Montserrat suffered devastation from the ...

LITTLE BAY, Montserrat — It was called Operation Exodus -- a plan to abandon this British Caribbean island en masse in case the erupting Soufriere Hills volcano made life unlivable. The volcano came ...

While St. Patrick's Day was once a one-day only event in Montserrat, the celebration of all things Irish has now spanned to an all-encompassing week-long affair. Indeed, it is the only country in the ...

A volcano on Montserrat shot ash some nine miles (15 kilometers) into the sky Thursday, one of its most dramatic events since a devastating 1997 eruption that drove away half the Caribbean island's ...