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www.reuters.com/article/... - A $250 million bond issue the U.S. Virgin Islands Public Finance Authority plans to bring to the municipal market next week is the latest sally in a Caribbean rum war with Puerto Rico over federal tax rebates.
The issue will finance a $165 million rum plant in St. Croix and related expenses for drinks giant Diageo PLC (DGE.L), which will shift production of its Captain Morgan Rum from Puerto Rico to the USVI after a contract with Puerto Rican rum producer Destileria Serralles runs out in 2012. more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - Hundreds of protesters called for Bermudian Premier Ewart Brown to step down on Tuesday and accused him of acting like a dictator in allowing four Guantanamo prisoners from China to settle on the mid-Atlantic island. Some 600 people gathered outside Parliament in the island's capital Hamilton, waving banners and chanting "Brown must go" as they marched to the Cabinet office. more...()
www.barbadosadvocate.com... - THE Barbados Women’s Volleyball team saved their best for last when they defeated the previously undefeated Jamaican team 3-2 in the thrilling finale of the FIVB Women’s Volleyball World Championship – 2nd Round NORCECA Group - D. more...()
www.caribbeannetnews.com... - Participants at the just-concluded 4th Caribbean-American Business Expo and Conference in Orlando, Florida are formulating an Action Plan after two days of intensive discussions on strategies to improve and expand trade and investment with the United States. The June 10-12 Forum, with the theme ”The Caribbean American Relationship in this Era of Change”, organized by Florida’s Caribbean Sun, with sponsorship from a wide range of Caribbean businesses, examined trade, investment, social and other issues against the backdrop of the current global recession.. more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - Cuban factories are closing down and production is being cut at other workplaces as the international financial crisis weighs on the import-dependent Caribbean island, the official media said on Sunday. A growing shortage of foreign exchange has forced the Communist-run country to drastically cut imports and local budgets, impose power quotas on state-run companies, restructure debt and put off payments to foreign suppliers. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - Bandits early yesterday morning shot a man in the neck; beat, terrorised and robbed eight others at a small grocery and barbershop on Mandela Avenue before escaping in a waiting car, having also grabbed two five-pound tins of Fern Leaf milk powder. more...()
www.dominionpaper.ca/web... - People were there from the USA, Canada, and all over the Caribbean - people of different religions and cultures. Veye Yo, his organization, organized a viewing as did his family at Notre Dame D'Haiti church in Miami, It was crowded for the two days as approximately 3000 people gathered. Catholic bishops from Haiti and United States were in attendance. People tearfully marched for hours in Little Haiti in front of Veve Yo headquarters where a stage was set to receive his body for the last time. more...()
www.royalgazette.com/sif... - He was able to meet CEOs of other Digicel markets in the Caribbean and South America, such as Panama, the Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and other countries, in addition to undergoing training and helping to launch the company in the likes of the British Virgin Islands. more...()
goal.com/en-us/news/114/... - After the 2-1 win over Trinidad and Tobago, it may seem like Mexico had a harder time during the game. Although the score was close, the margin could have been greater as Mexico missed several scoring chances.The team opened the scoring early in the first minute of the game, but several chances after that left goal scorer Guillermo Franco frustrated with the missed opportunities.
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www.nationalpost.com/new... - UNITED NATIONS -- The chief United Nations investigator on slavery signalled Wednesday that Haiti -- the only nation born of a slave revolt -- has entrenched child enslavement through its long-denounced "restavek" system.The finding by Gulnara Shahinian after she toured the Caribbean nation raises pressure on Canada and other major aid donors to the country to focus more on eliminating the blight. more...()
www.washingtonpost.com/w... - The Kennedy Center's Millennium stage rollicked with the rhythms of the Caribbean last week in a performance that kicked off Caribbean American Heritage Month. The pulsating sounds of the Positive Vibrations Youth Steel Orchestra -- with its rendition of Alicia Keyes's "No One," arranged by artistic director Malika Coletta -- brought the house down and the audience to their feet. In a one-hour concert, the orchestra played its interpretations of jazz, gospel and calypso to a capacity crowd. more...()
www.cdnn.info/news/trave... - With a steady rise in violent crime including an alarming increase in homicides, Trinidad and Tobago has overtaken Jamaica as the "murder capital of the Caribbean". While homicides increased two percent in Jamaica in 2008, murders were up a staggering 38 percent in Trinidad and Tobago. more...()
www.mtvernonlisbonsun.co... - Bobbi (Alger) Kruse of Lisbon is preparing again this year for what she says is the “hottest, hardest, most rewarding work” of her nursing career. This fall, she and a team of medical professionals will travel to Jamaica to care for children. This year, Deena McAndrew, also of Lisbon, will join Kruse. The team is gathering items for the trip — from donations of hair products to drink mixes.
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www.aroundtherings.com/a... - CONCACAS President Carlos Lopez believes softball’s Olympic status would help continue the positive momentum the sport has established to provide sporting opportunities both in his region and all across the world. Also the president of the Puerto Rico Softball Federation, Mr. Lopez believes that the profile of Olympic competition will further boost softball’s initiatives to provide coaching and equipment in areas where funds are short.
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www.tradingmarkets.com/.... - Caribbean Casino & Gaming Corporation (Pink Sheets:CGAQ) is pleased to announce that live betting cameras and software will be installed over table games in the next two weeks. A new contract is ready to be delivered, which includes patent rights for 51 countries, and 2,151 casinos. This contract will give CGAQ a multimillion dollar revenue stream that can generate income within the next 90 days. more...()
satellite.tmcnet.com/top... - KVH Industries, Inc, has taken operational responsibility of the mini-VSAT Broadband service network supporting North America and the Caribbean. These regions were previously managed under a revenue sharing agreement with SES AMERICOM. This arrangement has been terminated in favor of a leasing agreement with SES (News - Alert) AMERICOM for bandwidth on its AMC-21 and AMC-6 satellites. more...()
online.wsj.com/article/S... - Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. expects suspended port calls in Mexico amid the outbreak of the H1N1 flu virus to cut 2009 earnings by about 22 cents a share. Numerous cruise ships temporarily diverted from the country as the illness broke out. The virus "had a short, but highly disruptive impact to our operations," said Chairman and Chief Executive Richard Fain on Tuesday. He added, "Fortunately, our vessels are quickly returning to their original itineraries." more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - Climate change has contributed to a flattening of the complex, multi-layered architecture of Caribbean coral reefs, compromising their role as a nursery for fish stocks and a buffer against tropical storms, a study shows. The analysis of 500 surveys of 200 reefs, conducted between 1969 and 2008, showed the most complex types of reef had been virtually wiped out across the entire Caribbean. more...()
www.dominicagazette.com/... - Dominican Republic health officials reported a pregnant 17-year-old from Santo Domingo as the first victim of AH1N1 flu virus. The death comes as the World Health Organization said the DR now has 33 reported cases of the disease, the highest for any Caribbean country. Jamaica for its part reported three more cases Sunday, brining the total according to the Health Ministry’s surveillance and monitoring team to seven. more...()
guardian.co.tt/sports/ot... - The one-week tournament that was also used as a test event for next month’s Caribbean Games concluded at the UWI St Augustine on Saturday night. The “Calypso Spikers” won 25-16, 25-16, 25-11 to advance to the next round in Cuba from June 21-23 and will come up against Guatemala, Nicaragua and the host. more...()
www.caycompass.com/cgi-b... - A pregnant teenager who had tuberculosis is the first person in the Caribbean to die of swine flu, Dominican health officials said Friday. The 17–year–old was seven months pregnant and also had cardiovascular problems, according to a statement from the country’s health department. more...()
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/... - Caribbean governments have renewed policies in an insurance pool that triggers payouts of emergency cash to regional islands after devastating hurricanes or earthquakes.
Sixteen Caribbean nations and territories pool their risk through the program, slashing individual premiums by about 40 percent. Governments have purchased policy deductibles that would reimburse them for damage incurred during hurricanes or earthquakes over a 20-year period.
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www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/c... - After last week's first success of the season, Afro Caribbean were brought back down to earth thanks to an agonising one-run defeat to Dunchurch. Michael Penna bowled 7-37 to see off Dunchurch for 190 all out before his side fell just short on all out for 189 after Amir Ali had made 64 and Tony McCourtie 62 not out. more...()
stluciastar.com/content/... - A team of six, including two officials left the island Friday evening for the 2009 Eastern Caribbean Bodybuilding Championships taking place in Trinidad & Tobago from May 29-31. The team consists of two men and two women. Dale Leon will compete in the Men’s Light Heavyweight category while Orville James faces the opposition in the Men’s Middleweight category. more...()
www.bviplatinum.com/news... - Local Health officials are keeping a close tab on the Influenza A H1N1 and continue to urge residents to remain vigilant as more Caribbean countries report cases of the deadly disease. Additional cases of the new strain of Influenza A H1N1 have been identified in the Caribbean with two cases being confirmed in Jamaica, one case in the Bahamas and one in Bermuda. This adds to the three previous cases confirmed in Cuba and two in the Dominican Republic. more...()
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/worl... - The United States is facing pressure over its Cuba policy at the annual meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS), being held in Honduras. Most Latin American countries want the Caribbean island to return to the group, from which it was expelled in 1962, without preconditions. more...()
www.reuters.com/article/... - he World Bank on Tuesday approved a new four-year, $121 million lending strategy for Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country, that focuses on economic growth, jobs and reducing the impact from natural disasters.
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thehill.com/leading-the-... - The House ethics committee is reviewing a trip Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) and several other members took to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten last year. Ethics committee Staff Director Blake Chisam and Todd Ungerecht, counsel to the panel’s ranking member, have asked for information from a conservative group that has raised questions about a November 2008 conference at the St. Maarten Sonesta Maho Bay Resort & Casino. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - Austin Jack Warner, president of CONCACAF and vice president of FIFA yesterday said he was disappointed that Guyana’s goal project has not yet gotten off the ground but added that he was finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. more...()
www.dailymail.co.uk/tvsh... - Troubled Amy Winehouse may have cancelled her UK comeback gig, but the singer is still plugging away at her third album – and was even spotted touting her guitar across a sandy St Lucia beach. Dressed in her island uniform of hotpants and a bikini top, and displaying a collection of painful looking bruises on her legs, the singer scampered up and down the shore with her instrument and even paused to chat with some sunbathers. more...()
www.nydailynews.com/ny_l... - With the goal of sharing the unique and striking attributes of the Caribbean with potential visitors, "Caribbean Week in New York" is returning to the city. The event, which runs from June 8 through June 12 and is sponsored by the Caribbean Tourism Organization, is a source of great pride among Caribbean New Yorkers, as their homelands take center stage with private and public activities in the city more...()
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