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Brian Lara seeks selection in Trinidad golf team
West Indies cricketing great Brian Lara is to compete for a place in Trinidad and Tobago's national team for the upcoming Caribbean Amateur Golf Championship (CAGC) in Puerto Rico. Lara is down to participate in the two-day TATIL Open Invitational, one of the mandatory events to be eligible for national selection. The TATIL Open Invitational is organised by the Trinidad and Tobago Golf ...
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Cuba Land Of The $250000 Family Sedan
hide captionCubans peer into the windows of a car dealer in Havana on Jan. 3. Cubans were astonished by a $250,000 Peugeot family sedan and other prices when the government lifted its 50-year restrictions on new and used car ...
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In Dominican Republic a T-shirt factory sets the highest bar for workers’ rights
Elvira Juan Chale sews t-shirts at Altagracia Apparel, where workers earn three times the Dominican Republic's minimum wage. Now, Altagracia workers are inspiring other textile employees here to demand higher wages and better working conditions from their own companies. (Jacob ...
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Plea deal with Dominican Republic’s most famous inmate ‘pity and shame’
Santo Domingo.- The attorney for Dominican Republic's most famous inmate on Friday called the prosecution's behaviour regarding his client's plea bargaining agreement with authorities a "pity and a shame" and announced a lawsuit against Justice minister Francisco Domnguez. Felix Portes, lawyer for money laundering convict Sobeida Flix, was referring to Dominguez's ...
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Cuba Proves There Is an Alternative to IMF Diplomat Says
Lisbon, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) Cuba proved that to achieve an alternative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is possible, whose European and Latin American countries are currently suffering the consequences, Cuban ambassador to Portugal, Johana Tablada, said. Interviewed by Portuguese newspaper Avante, the diplomat recalled that in the 90s the alternative to surrender was the ...
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Top 10 Caribbean beach resorts
Beat the winter blues and escape the chill for the warm, sunny beaches of the Caribbean. These 10 Caribbean resorts on the beach are the perfect places to enjoy the hot climate and luxury accommodations and stunning pools, while still having immediate access to some of the most pristine beaches in the Caribbean. ...
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Haiti earthquake where is US aid money going Get the data
Bill Clinton, the former US president turned philanthropist, tours a coffee processing plant in Port-au-Prince with an agricultural investment delegation, in March 2013. Photograph: Thony ...
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Dominican Republic’s opposition party internal crisis festers
Santo Domingo.- Dominican Republic's major opposition party (PRD) Thursday failed in yet another attempt to surmount its crisis that has kept it divided for three years. Two negotiating commissions representing PRD president Miguel Vargas, and former president Hiplito Meja and Luis Abinader failed to agree on an agenda proposed after a meeting on Tuesday. The debated points were disclosed ...
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Petrotrin fined $3 million over Trinidad oil spills
The Environmental Management Authority has fined Petroleum Co. of Trinidad and Tobago Ltd. $20 million Trinidadian ($3.1 million) over 11 oil spills, Caribbean360 reported. The spills have affected the environment and residents in the south of Trinidad and Tobago. The oil company was accused of not complying with health and air-monitoring requirements, among other ...
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Caribbean Oil-Tanker Rates Surge as Libya Seen Disrupting Trade
The cost of hauling Caribbean oil to the U.S. surged to a five-year high amid speculation the region's vessel supply is being diminished by months of delays to Libyan crude exports that are altering trade flows. Aframaxes hauling 70,000 metric-ton cargoes on the route earned $83,205 a day yesterday, the most since December 2008, according to ...
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Goolets Comparison Croatia Cruises Win Showdown Against Caribbean Cruises
Ljubljana, Slovenia (PRWEB) January 10, 2014 Goolets Company (an expert on the subject of cruises) made a bold comparison between Cruises in Croatia and Cruises in the Caribbean. Croatia won in the showdown and the company predicts it will become one of the trendiest destinations in the World in the near future. How did Croatia beat the Caribbean? Learn from this fun ...
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Fidel Castro 87 makes rare public appearance | Video
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made a surprise appearance on Wednesday evening at the opening of a Havana cultural center sponsored by one of his favorite Cuban ...
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Fidel Castro reappears in public
Please support our site by enabling javascript to view ads. Havana, Jan 9 (EFE).- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro reappeared in public for the inauguration of an art studio in Havana that coincided with the 55th anniversary of his triumphal entry into the capital, official media said Thursday. The 87-year-old Fidel, whose last public appearance had been in April 2013, on Wednesday night ...
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Puerto Rico sees jump in early revenue collections
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Puerto Rico's treasury secretary says preliminary revenues collected by the U.S. territory in the past six months are $80 million above initial estimates.Melba Acosta also said Thursday in a statement that the $913 million in preliminary revenue collections for December is the highest total ever for that month.She credited most of the jump to increases in a ...
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Haiti builds stronger after quake gaps remain
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AU -PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- On a steep hillside on the edge of Haiti's capital, Pacha Jeudy slaps soupy cement onto jagged cinderblocks and stacks them into a wobbly wall. The home looks likely to collapse in a big earthquake, just as his neighbors' houses did in the January 2010 temblor.????Less than a mile down the hill, construction workers are adding two floors to a three-story ... -
Canada’s aid in Haiti is flawed group
MONTREAL -- An alliance of Quebec human rights groups raised an alarm Thursday as it released a study that questions the efficacy and ethics of Canada's efforts to help Haiti rebuild four years after that country's devastating earthquake.The study, commissioned by Concertation pour Haiti, an alliance of Quebec groups that works to promote human rights in Haiti, suggests the Canadian ...
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RARE CASTRO OUTINGCubas Fidel makes first appearance in 9 months
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro made his first public appearance in nine months, attending the opening of an art studio in the Cuban capital. Official government newspapers and websites on Thursday carried a photo showing a seated, gray-haired Castro from behind, pointing at a work of art while artist Alexis Leyva leaned in to talk to him at the Wednesday night event. Other photos showed ...
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Quake off Cuba shudders folks from Keys to Orlando
A rare but moderate earthquake off the Cuban coast shook buildings and rattled residents from the Keys to Orlando on Thursday afternoon.The 5.1 magnitude quake occurred just before 4 p.m. in the ocean about 24 miles north of the Cuban city of Corralillo, more than 100 miles east of Havana. "It was frightening," said Sheila Cullen, who was working on the third floor ...
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Tourism Minister Bermudas casinos will operate within hotels
Casinos will operate within existing or new hotels rather than as stand alone facilities in order to "enhance our tourism infrastructure", according to Tourism Minister Shawn Crockwell. And training programs will be provided to give Bermudians "a jump start" on careers in the gaming industry once legislation is passed legalising gambling. At a press conference this ...
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Earthquake off Cuba coast felt in Key West
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck just off the coast of Cuba, 14 miles north of Corralillo, at 3:57 p.m. Thursday. The tremor could be felt as far as the lower Keys. NBC 6 Meteorologist John Morales has the ...
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U.S. Cuba re-evaluate migration accords
HAVANA -- Officials from the United States and Cuba met on Thursday in Havana to discuss longstanding migration accords in the latest sign of a new collaborative spirit between the Cold War ...
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The art of Fidel Castros public night out
In this frame grab of video released by Cubavision, Cuba's former President Fidel Castro attends the inauguration of the cultural center, Studio Kcho Romerillo, Laboratory for Art, in Havana, Cuba, late Wednesday, Jan. 8, ...
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St. Lucia to Get Support for Suriname for Heavy Rains Victims
Castries, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Saint Lucia announced today that Suriname will send economic assistance to face the effects of heavy rain that hit the country at the end of the year, killing six people and leaving heavy damages. In a diplomatic note, the Foreign Ministry of Suriname said that it will donate money to this island trough the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, to be ...
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Cuba Afro American Scientific Social and Cultural Workshop
Matanzas, Cuba, Jan 9 (Prensa Latina) The sessions of the 18th Afro American Scientific Social and Cultural Workshop continued here Thursday, with a roundtable on the experiences of the community projects. Five speakers were in charge of the roundtable, in a day that included the presentation of a book called "Yerberos en La Habana" (Weed Growers in Havana) and visits to interesting ...
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Building practices improve in Haiti after 2010 quake but some projects still fall short
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AU -PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- On a steep hillside on the edge of Haiti's capital, Pacha Jeudy slaps soupy cement onto jagged cinderblocks and stacks them into a wobbly wall. The home looks likely to collapse in a big earthquake, just as his neighbors' houses did in the January 2010 temblor. Less than a mile down the hill, construction workers are adding two floors to a three-story ...
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Caribbean set to ban the discharge of all non-food waste anywhere in its waters
Every single year, around 50,000 cruise ships alone, carrying a total of 14.5 million passengers, call at various ports in the Caribbean. With them comes sewerage, solid waste, leftover food, oily bilge water, and ‘grey water’ (the waste water from showering, bathing, washing up etc). Years ago, all of this waste would have been dumped into the crystal oceans of the world by cruise lines and other shipping companies, but the Wider Caribbean region has taken steps to prevent the further destruction of their environments.
Right now, at any given time, there are hundreds of cruise ships, tankers, bulk carriers, fishing vessels and pleasure craft frequenting the waters of the Wider Caribbean, a huge area of ocean of around 3.3 million square kilometers. The Wider Caribbean is home to 28 nations, either island nations or countries with a coastline on the Caribbean. Read more