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September 3, 08 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Ten people were killed as Hanna lashed the north of Haiti Tuesday, the third deadly tropical storm to unleash its wrath on the impoverished Caribbean nation in under three weeks.
Haiti's third largest city, Gonaives, was under water, and official ...read full story
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September 3, 08 - KINGSTON, Jamaica: While Emergency Management and other government officials are monitoring two other storms, Hanna and Ike, mopping and clearing up operations after Tropical Storm Gustav are still in progress in Jamaica.
Reports from Kingston state that at least JA$3 billion in d ...read full story
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September 3, 08 - CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters): Venezuela's socialist President Hugo Chavez has won over some of the United States' closest allies in the Caribbean and Central America with oil credits and aid that match similar efforts by Washington.
Hundreds of millions of dollars in food a ...read full story
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September 3, 08 - GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands: Tropical Storm Hanna finally seemed to be gaining speed and moving north on Wednesday, giving the Turks and Caicos Islands, the southeastern Bahamas, as well as Haiti, hope of a much needed break from the rain and wind.
At 8:00 p.m. EDT, the c ...read full story
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September 2, 08 - HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba said on Monday more than 90,000 houses were damaged or destroyed when Hurricane Gustav tore through the western province of Pinar del Rio on Saturday with 150 mile per hour winds.
Officials and state media said 80 percent of the province, whi ...read full story
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September 2, 08 - MADRID, Spain (AFP): Pictures of Fidel Castro at the height of the Cuban revolution were published Monday in Spain in a new book by late Cuban photographer Alberto Korda, whose image of Che Guevara became a worldwide icon.
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September 2, 08 - ROAD TOWN, BVI: Pensioners and new mothers in the British Virgin Islands will be benefitting when the government increases social security benefits as from next year.
The increases in benefits, effective January 1, 2009, are based on recommendations emanating from the 9th Actuaria ...read full story
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September 2, 08 - ROAD TOWN, BVI: The British Virgin Islands is gearing up to accommodate more visitors to the territory and, to this end, a multi agency delegation from the territory visited the Dominican Republic where they also met with officials at the British, United States, and Dutch Embassies and the H ...read full story
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September 2, 08 - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS): There must be a major change in the way in which public service institutions function, if Barbados is to cope with the many and varied challenges emerging from the current global environment.
This assertion was made recently by Prime Minister David Tho ...read full story
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September 1, 08 - MIAMI, USA (Reuters): While powerful Hurricane Gustav bore down on the US Gulf Coast on Sunday, Tropical Storm Hanna swirled east of Florida, embedded in a complicated climatic environment that made it impossible to forecast its destination and likely strength.
The eighth tropical ...read full story
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September 1, 08 - HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba, although apparently spared a major disaster from Hurricane Gustav, began assessing damage on Sunday after the monstrous storm passed over rural areas of mostly minor economic importance, local experts said.
There was widespread destruction of homes, s ...read full story
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September 1, 08 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters):The lower house of parliament approved a formal policy declaration from Haiti's new prime minister on Friday, as lawmakers moved to end an impasse that began in April when the previous government was ousted over food price riots.
Haiti's Senate an ...read full story
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September 1, 08 - ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Jamaica Gleaner newspaper reported on Monday that Hugh Wildman, legal advisor to the previous Grenadian government led by Dr Keith Mitchell, was released from police custody on Sunday night.
The reported also stated that he is expected in Jamaica on ...read full story
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September 1, 08 - GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands: A hurricane warning remains in effect for the central and southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, meaning hurricane conditions are expected in the warning area within the next 24 hours.
Residents are urged to make immediate prep ...read full story
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August 31, 08 - ST JOHN’S, Antigua: The opposition Antigua Labour Party (ALP) has blasted the Baldwin Spencer administration for failing to make public the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) document negotiated with the European Union and more so to lay it before Parliament.
Because of th ...read full story
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August 31, 08 - PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands: Turks and Caicos Premier, Michael Misick, said that despite the downturn in the US economy, which brought massive job losses in the US, an anemic stock market, rising worldwide food and oil prices, and other setbacks, the TCI continues to increase its tou ...read full story
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August 31, 08 - KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): Tropical Storm Gustav regained hurricane strength as it churned toward Cuba Friday, leaving 78 people dead in its wake, as New Orleans began voluntary evacuations ahead of the storm's projected arrival next week.
Jamaica was rocked by the storm which ...read full story
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August 31, 08 - Increased traffic to the Caribbean Net News website means that we have to upgrade our server capacity and this changeover will be implemented on Saturday, August 30, 2008.
Readers may therefore notice some occasional disruption in the availability of our website over the weekend, ...read full story
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August 31, 08 - GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands: As Tropical Storm Hanna continues to move westward, the tropical storm warning remains in effect for the Turks and Caicos Islands and central and southeastern Bahamas.
At 8:00 p.m. EDT Sunday, the centre of Tropical Storm Hanna was located abo ...read full story
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August 28, 08 - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: In an address, that received a standing ovation from regional representatives, Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson spoke of the continuing importance of the news media as an integral part of finding innovative ways of achieving national objectives.
He was ...read full story
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August 28, 08 - BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, who two days ago called for a decisive action to be taken by regional leaders as regards the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) with the European Union, is nevertheless of the belief that there are benefits to be reaped from the trea ...read full story
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August 28, 08 - PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Although Jamaica and Belize are not in favour of the proposed political and economic union between Trinidad and Tobago and three OECS states, Patrick Manning, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, the proponent of the merger feels that he was not "blanked" by the ...read full story
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August 28, 08 - GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Two of Guyana's most notorious criminals were killed on Thursday following a confrontation with the police.
Rondel ‘Fineman’ Rawlins and Jermaine ‘Skinny’ Charles were gunned down at Kuru Kuru, a forested village located 30 miles outsid ...read full story
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August 28, 08 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The death toll from Tropical Storm Gustav climbed to 51 in Haiti, officials here said Thursday, two days after it slammed into the impoverished Caribbean nation at hurricane strength.
Civil defense officials here said another seven people were mis ...read full story
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August 27, 08 - GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Despite a few problems and setbacks, The Bahamas’ participation in the Caribbean Festival of the Arts (Carifesta) X in Georgetown, Guyana is a positive learning experience for the country, Minister of State for Culture Charles Maynard said.
The Bahamas is ...read full story
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August 27, 08 - WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): The United States accused Venezuela's socialist government on Wednesday of failing to fight back against drug gangs moving huge amounts of cocaine through the South American country.
Angered by what he says is Venezuela's refusal to work with Washingto ...read full story
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August 27, 08 - PARAMARIBO, Suriname: While the government is not opposing the idea of a political union among Caricom member states, Suriname is not ready to join such union, a government minister here told reporters Wednesday.
Seeking support for his initiative for a political union in the regi ...read full story
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August 27, 08 - HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuban creditors and suppliers said this week they were worried the import-dependent nation faced a new cash crunch after it notified at least two foreign governments that it could not meet debt payments.
Western diplomats, speaking on condition of anon ...read full story
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August 27, 08 - HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States Wednesday after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.
The US National Hurricane Center warned that Gustav could regain hurricane f ...read full story
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August 25, 08 - ST JOHN’S, Antigua: More than 70 "illegals" who live in Antigua and Barbuda have been arrested and placed behind bars following a joint operation in several areas across the country.
The move by the police, Defence Force and the Immigration Department followed repo ...read full story
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August 25, 08 - PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Labour unions in Trinidad and Tobago are gearing up for a nationwide shut down of the country on September 8.
Thousands of members comprising the various bodies are now protesting what they say are issues of rising crime uncontrollable food prices and incr ...read full story
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August 25, 08 - PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Demonstrators erected burning barricades in the streets of Haiti's southern city of Les Cayes on Monday to protest rising food prices in the impoverished Caribbean country.
Several hundred demonstrators joined the short-lived protest in the L ...read full story
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August 25, 08 - SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A day after dozens of federal authorities stormed into New Progressive Party Senator Jorge De Castro Font’s office, home and a gas station, confiscating computers, documents, trash bags, two brief cases and other items, the Commonwealth’s Senate Rules and Calend ...read full story
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August 25, 08 - NEW YORK, USA (Reuters): The US National Hurricane Center said Monday that Tropical Storm Gustav had formed in the central Caribbean, with strengthening of the storm expected to bring hurricane conditions to parts of the Dominican Republic and Haiti within 24 hours.
Gustav, packin ...read full story
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August 24, 08 - GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Antigua & Barbuda’s contingent to the tenth edition of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (CARIFESTA) gave a stunning and colourful presentation during the much anticipated parade of nations, held during the opening ceremony on Friday at the National Stadium at Prov ...read full story
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