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| Spain offers 200,000 a get-out-of-Cuba card |
| Enacted in December, the Law of Historic Memory has thousands of Cubans in Havana lining up for Spanish citizenship -- and a potential way off the island. HAVANA -- Marisabel, a warehouse clerk in her 40s, wants to leave Cuba and move to Spain. A tattered piece of paper -- her grandmother's Spanish birth certificate -- may allow her to do that. |
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| Bolt takes 400m victory in 2009 debut |
| KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) Usain Bolt opened his 2009 season here Saturday the same way he ran to sprint gold at the Beijing Olympics, slowing before the finish but crossing the line well ahead of his rivals. The Jamaican star, and world's fastest man, turned in a creditable 400m performance at the Camperdown Classic, winning his heat in 46.35 seconds to capture the three-heat final. |
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| Police probing report schoolgirl drugged, raped |
| A schoolgirl suspected to have been abducted and then raped was yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital awaiting treatment but was likely going to be transferred to another facility for further treatment. According to reports reaching this newspaper, the 15-year-old girl was on her way to school yesterday morning when she was picked up on the Grove Public Road by a mini bus with three men. |
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| Stricter passport rules kick in June 1 |
| If you're traveling outside the United States in 2009, here are two pieces of advice: Get or renew your passport now, and think twice before planning a car trip to Mexico or Canada in June. That's when we may see the biggest change ever for Western Hemisphere travel. Starting June 1 (unless Congress changes the deadline), Americans will need to show a passport, a passport card or other special document to return to the United States by land or sea from Mexico and Canada. |
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| Jamaica in charge against Guyana |
| Defending champion and current points leaders Jamaica were large and in charge against home team and bottom-of-the-table Guyana at the end of the first day of their sixth round clash in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) four-day competition at the Guyana National Stadium Providence, yesterday. |
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| Scrutiny of Stanford's bank spreads to Caribbean |
| MIAMI/BOSTON (Reuters) - Scrutiny of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford's investment bank expanded on Friday into the Caribbean, where regulators planned to quiz officials about his offshore banking unit. The Wall Street Journal separately reported that the FBI had joined the investigation, showing intensifying scrutiny over the case that has, along with Bernard Madoff's suspected $50 billion fraud, put regulators and investors on high alert. |
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| Yorke facing long ban |
| CAPTAIN Dwight Yorke will miss Trinidad and Tobago's next two World Cup qualifiers-against Honduras (March 28) and the United States (April 1)-and may be suspended for as many as four matches due to his actions at the end of Wednesday's game against El Salvador in San Salvador. |
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| 'Beenie Man a di biggest hypocrite' - Ninja Man |
| Beenie Man a di biggest hypocrite, laugh an skin teeth wid man like him an dem a fren wen him in front a dem, but chat a bag tings behine dem back, says Ninja Man. When mi a kill people mi nuh haffi have nuh hit song. Mi use on the spot lyrics an kill people, says Ninja Man who is responding to comments recently made by Beenie Man on CVMs On Stage entertainment programme with host Winford Williams. |
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| BAN BANANA! -Bunji defends double meaning in soca |
| That was the tongue in cheek response by Bunji Garlin (Ian Alvarez) yesterday to a Cipriani Labour College lecturer's definition of the popular soca hit as musical pornography during an interview on a Jamaican radio talk show on Wednesday. Bunji, who was speaking during Bmobile's Soca in B Square lunchtime concert performance in Woodford Square, Port of Spain, told the audience that whenever a song was banned it immediately became a bigger hit than it was before. |
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| Premier League footballer charged with assaulting a woman |
| Marlon King, the Wigan Athletic striker, has been charged with offences against a 20-year-old woman in a London nightclub in December. The 28-year-old, who is currently on loan at Middlesbrough, has been released on bail to appear at City of Westminster magistrates court on February 25 on charges of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and sexual assault by touching. |
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| England not helped by pitch as they plan West Indies fightback |
| Beach cricket between countries has so far been played by creaking veterans, but England will contest their own version on Friday, at some peril to bowlers and fielders, when they take on the West Indies in the second Test at a ground built entirely on sand. |
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| Suspect held in `98 slaying of German in Calif. |
| LOS ANGELES -- A murder suspect living under a false identity in Jamaica has been arrested in the 1998 slaying of a German tourist at a Southern California seaside hotel, the FBI said Thursday. |
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| Disappointing loss to St. Lucia, but this tour is what we needed |
| It was definitely disappointing to lose to St. Lucia. We changed the team around Delyone (Borden) and Sluggo (Dwayne Leverock), probably our two top spinners, didn't play and St. Lucia got 240. We had them in trouble at 140 for six but we had a couple of bad overs and dropped a few catches. One of their guys was dropped three times and went on to make 50. |
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| Jamaican musher prepares for Yukon Quest |
| WHITEHORSE, Yukon Newton Marshall thought he was in trouble upon receiving a call that began the Jamaican's odyssey as a dog musher. In 2005, Marshall was working as a horseback-riding guide for Chukka Caribbean Adventures when a phone call unwittingly changed his life. |
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| Jamaicans want to ban lewd soca music from Trinidad |
| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaicans, angered over the country's Broadcasting Commission banning reggae dancehall songs containing sexually explicit lyrics, have called on the Commission to also ban soca music from Trinidad and Tobago. |
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| Nigeria 0 - 0 Jamaica .. Barnes almost nets shock |
| John Barnes' Jamaica came close to recording an upset over Nigeria but were left to rue missed chances by Middlesbrough's Marlon King and former Sheffield United striker Luton Shelton at Millwall's New Den. |
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| Official: Dominican Republic flooding kills 6 |
| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Heavy downpours and strong surf have swamped northern coastal areas of the Dominican Republic, isolating 34 settlements and killing six people, including a British tourist, an official said Tuesday. |
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| Gaddafi wants Caribbean in Africa |
| Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has said he would like a United States of Africa to include "Caribbean islands with African populations". Col Gaddafi, speaking in Tripoli as the African Union's (AU) new chairman, said this could include Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. |
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| Bill would drop travel restrictions to Cuba |
| The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 4 would allow American citizens unrestricted travel to Cuba for the first time since 1963. The bill by Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., and eight co-sponsors would also lift limits on travel by Cuban exiles living in the United States. The president would not be able to regulate travel to the island unless an armed conflict or armed danger arises. |
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| Backyard gardens catch on in Caribbean |
| The Caribbean Community is calling on citizens to help reduce dependence on imports by planting their own food. Backyard gardens aren't just thriving in South Florida. They are also flourishing in the Caribbean. Jamaica, Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda have all launched campaigns to get citizens to grow more. |
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| Greensleeves wants a bleeping compromise |
| Greensleeves reggae label wants government to allow songs with daggering and bleeps for late night broadcast but concedes that, at times, local radio goes too far. At the same time, it does not expect the ban to hurt these songs popularity. |
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| NAS & MARLEY COLLABORATIVE ALBUM IN THE WORKS |
| Hip-hop icon NAS is teaming up with reggae star DAMIAN 'JUNIOR GONG' MARLEY to release a new album.The I Can hitmaker reveals he has been busy in the studio with Bob Marley's son to produce a disc paying tribute to their cultural roots. |
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| Hilco venture licenses Bob Marley |
| Bob Marley's family and Hilco Consumer Capital, a private equity firm that invests in retail brands, are preparing a major push to license the late reggae legend's likeness, trademarks and themes for apparel, food and even video games, the Wall Street Journal said. |
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| Chris Brown Arrested After Alleged Rihanna Assault |
Grammy day was supposed to be a glittery affair for R&B's reigning It couple, Chris Brown and Rihanna. But things went horribly amiss.
About the time Brown was scheduled to be singing "Forever" onstage at Los Angeles' Staples Center, he was instead detained by police, being questioned for allegedly roughing up Rihanna. |
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| Dancehall music can empower the young |
| Brown, the pianist for Ruth Graham and Friends Ministries, a group which tours the world, using music to win souls for Christ, uses genres of music in his work and he does not advocate banning dancehall. He wants it, instead, to be used to "empower young people". |
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| 3 shot dead in drive-by |
| Three men were killed in Carenage last night, as gang violence continued to take its toll on the country. According to police reports, residents of Frisco Junction reported hearing gunshots just around 7 p.m |
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| The Mystifying Life and Many Deaths of Cuba's Talisman |
| On the front page of Cuba's state newspaper Granma last week, the lone star on the Cuban flag had mysteriously faded away in an old black-and-white photograph announcing a celebration of patriot Jos? Mart?. Copies quickly sold out as rumors flew across the island. What did it mean? Was it a portent? Had the inevitable finally happened? |
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| Accused arsonist to know his fate on Monday |
| Orson Henderson who is accused of arson will have until Monday to know his fate. At that time, presiding High Court judge, Justice Francis Belle, is expected to give an evidence summation of the matter, followed by a verdict by the jury. |
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