On 24 April 1494 explorer Christoper Columbus, on his second trip to the “New World,” arrived at the southern end of a large crescent shaped island in the central Caribbean. “Juana” was the name Columbus gave to the island he discovered during his first voyage in 1492. The Taino, an indigenous seafaring people of the Caribbean, called the island “Cubao,” their word for “where fertile land is abundant.” Continue Reading