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Most travel disasters don't start on the road--they start before you leave home. Most travel disasters don't start on the road—they start before you leave home. You've checked your packing list twice. Your passport is valid. You've booked what looks like a great flight deal. Everything seems perfect on paper. Then you arrive at the airport only to discover your passport doesn't meet the six-month validity rule for your destination. Or you're scrambling to figure out why you n

The images coming out of Jamaica and eastern Cuba this month tell a devastating story. Hurricane Melissa, a catastrophic Category 5 storm with 185 mph winds, slammed into southwestern Jamaica on October 28th, 2025, as the strongest hurricane to hit the island since Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. It then struck eastern Cuba as a Category 3 on October 29th. The numbers are staggering: 102 deaths across the Caribbean, over 5 million people affected, 120,000 households in Jamaica ne