The children of Afro-Caribbean and Indian immigrants have completely closed the earnings gap with whites, in both professional and blue-collar work.

ECONOMIST: Race discrimination

It was not the miles of palm-fringed, white sand or the ludicrously blue sea that stunned me the Caribbean is littered with beaches fit for postcards it was the fact that there was virtually no development in any direction and hardly a soul in sight.

BBC: Colombia��s virtually vacant paradise