SAN JUAN, P.R. (AP) -- Arrow, a soca musician who won global fame with his 1983 hit ''Hot Hot Hot,'' died on Wednesday at his home on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. He was 60. The cause was complications of brain cancer, said his brother, Justin Cassell, a singer-songwriter who often collaborated with him. Arrow, whose real name was Alphonsus...
''STILL home, still nice'' is no catchy tourism slogan, but for the people of Montserrat, who have faced a trifecta of natural disasters in the past 16 years, it has become a sobering maxim to live by. Hurricane Hugo came first, hitting the island, a British overseas territory in the West Indies, with fury in 1989. Then, the Soufriere Hills Volcano...

Europe's oldest boys' choir and one of its finest, based here in a monastery atop steep limestone cliffs 25 miles northwest of Barcelona, is struggling to survive, a victim of its own traditions. For centuries, parents brought their 9- to 14-year-old boys to the choir and its music school, known as the Escolania of Montserrat, then part company for...
Montserrat er en frodig, bjergrig ø i det Caribiske Hav. Øen er 102 km² og har 4.488 indbyggere. Den er en del af Leeward Øerne og en del af økæden kaldet De små antiller. Montserrat blev navngivet af Christopher Columbus på hans anden rejse til den nye verden i 1493, efter Monserratbjerget som ligger i Catalonien.
Montserrat er et britisk oversøisk territorium. Øens hovedstad Plymouth blev ødelagt og to tredjedele af befolkningen flygtede grundet Soufriere Hills vulkanens udbrud der begyndte 18. juli, 1995.