Hurricane Sandy's Caribbean trip — devastation in Haiti and Cuba

As the world concentrates on the latest devastation in the US, Sandy has already done some serious damage to other countries, including Haiti and Cuba. Sandy took the lives of 54 people in Haiti and 11 in Cuba.

While in the Caribbean area, Hurricane Sandy also killed two people in the Bahamas, two in the Dominican Republic, one in Jamaica and one in Puerto Rico. 

Total death toll in the Caribbean is 71, with tens of thousands made homeless and little money available to rebuild.

Haiti is taking it especially hard. Just as they try to recover from one natural disaster, along comes another. With 54 people dead and and more than 200,000 homeless, Port au Prince is reeling from Sandy's devastating touch... read more and watch videos.

Blood-sucking parasite named Marley in homage to Reggae singer

Researchers from Arkansas State University have discovered a parasitic crustacean which infects fish in the coral reefs of the eastern Caribbean. They named it after Bob.

The discovery was made by Paul Sikkel, who is assistant professor of marine ecology at Arkansas State University and is a field marine biologist.

Together with his colleagues, he has been studying the ecological effects of commercial fishing and the degradation of coral reefs. They had previously observed the parasite throughout the region, but had assumed that it had already been characterized and classified.

On further investigation, they discovered that the parasite was, in fact, new to them... read more, mon.