The Mexican government began placing sargassum containment barriers along Mexico’s Caribbean coast last week, and officials reported Monday the sea fences are already stopping the seaweed from reaching beaches.

While the road to recovery has not happened overnight, the Department of Tourism is optimistic the revamped British Virgin Islands will look better than it ever has before.

The Puerto Rico Tourism Company is partnering with hotel operations platform Alice and Roca Marketing to bolster tourism on the island by enhancing communications between hotels and tourists.

Officials in Mexico said Tuesday that they discovered eight bodies in multiple locations across Cancun, a popular beach resort city — and magnet for American tourists — on the Yucatán Peninsula.

The number of reported cases of Zika, which was first detected in the Caribbean in 2015, peaked in the fall of 2016 and began to fall off by December of that year.

Having served as the first Chairman of St. Lucia's TEF from 2013 to 2016, Destang hailed its virtues, disclosing the Fund has generated more than $7 million and fueled more than 500 projects.