Montserrat's capital Plymouth is a ghost town - it was abandoned after the eruptions In July 1995, Montserrat's Soufriere Hills volcano began to erupt on a massive scale. The effects were devastating.

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 ...

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 ...

Montserrat is the only place outside of Ireland and two provinces in Canada where St. Patrick's Day is a public holiday. On St. Patrick's Day in 1768, enslaved Africans on the island attempted a ...

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 ...

Jeff Bezos and Sanchez embarked on a journey to the small Caribbean nation of Montserrat on his $500 million ‘Koru’, a luxury sailing superyacht. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancée Lauren ...

In 1995, the Soufriere Hills Volcano on Montserrat erupted, destroying the island’s capital city of Plymouth and causing the capital to be declared an exclusion zone. Photos attest to the suddenness ...