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A lot of alternatives in the Caribbean than risking poisoning in the Dominican Republic. Although prices might plummet.

I have been to a few islands in the Caribbean, they’re all the same.

I have been to a few islands in the Caribbean, they’re all the same.

I've been to many Islands in the Caribbean and I disagree. I have lived in Aruba, Antigua & Barbuda, and the Conch Republic. They all have relatively low crime and poverty rates, wonderful people, and excellent food and resources. I've also visited Puerto Rico many times, and while most of the the politicians may be liberal flakes, the Island, people, food, and culture are a national treasure. And while the Dominican Republic may be a turd world country, it shares the Island with Haiti, which is a fifth world sh!thouse.

Actually they are not. Generally the most expensive Caribbean islands like Grand Cayman and St Barts do not have the all inclusive hotels that attract the volume of tourists. Grand Cayman has a higher standard of living than the US. St Barts tend to be where the very rich go. It is an expensive island to visit.

The BVI’s have working poor, but most of them are from other islands in the Caribbean like Jamaica or Trinidad.
The BVI’s also have a huge offshore banking business like the Caymans.

In Grand Cayman, many of the people working at the resorts are young Canadians. When I was there the Cayman dollar was worth 2X what the Looney was. A young college student from Vancouver worked there from December through April. In that time she could make $40K Cayman = $80 Canadian. She also kept her money in one of the many Cayman banks. I doubt she was paying Canadian income tax on her earnings. Almost all the young people working in the resorts in the Caymans are from Canada, Australia and the UK. They were almost all white kids too.

The places that the big cruise ships go are not the places you want to visit in the Caribbean in general with few exceptions. Also, the all inclusive resorts tend to be in the cheaper wage(third world countries)like the Dominican Republic or Mexico. In the DR, those jobs at the resorts are hard to get. They pay their people crap. Unemployment there is high. The only hope for most of these young people is BASEBALL. They dream of being the next Pedro Martinez or Big Papi.