Venezuela raid turns travellers’ Caribbean getaways into ordeals

NEW YORK – Ms Susannah Ray, a teacher at a New York City high school, was supposed to be in class on the morning of Jan 5, welcoming her photography students back on the first day of the winter quarter. Her daughter Bettina, 14, should have been at her own high school to start the second semester of her freshman year.

Instead, they waited in Barbados, taking turns on a single laptop to teach and attend their classes after the US military operation on Jan 3 to

capture Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro

caused widespread flight cancellations in the Caribbean. JetBlue rebooked them, along with Ms Ray’s husband, on a flight that departs on Jan 11, eight days after they were originally scheduled to return to New York.