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  • Campbell-Brown leads Caribbean contingent in Diamond League

    Three-time Olympic gold medallist and four-time World champion Veronica Campbell-Brown will lead about three dozen Caribbean athletes in the Adidas Grand Prix here next week. The Grand Prix, the third meet of the glitzy, multi-million dollar Diamond League, will be held May 25 at Icahn Stadium on Randall's Island here, reports CMC. It will feature dozens of international superstars, including ...

  • Danilo Medina meets with JCE officials

    Santo Domingo.- A Central Electoral Board (JCE) committee, led by its president Roberto Rosario Marquez, met yesterday with President Danilo Medina to talk about the financial and budgetary situation of the entity.After the meeting, Rosario Marquez said the encounter was requested by the JCE last week, and "answered promptly by President Medina, who received him and talked a lot."In ...

  • Sea turtle comeback in a corner of the Caribbean

    Flourishing turtle tourism is providing good livelihoods for people in formerly dead-end farming towns, with the Trinidad-based group Turtle Village Trust saying it brings in some $8.2 million annually. The inflow of visitors, both domestic and foreign, to Trinidad's northeast coast jumped from 6,500 in 2000 to over 60,000 in 2012. Officials with the U.S.-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say ...

  • New board to oversee Trinidads Caribbean Airlines

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -; Trinidad's finance minister has appointed a new interim board to oversee Caribbean Airlines after announcing that the state-owned company posted losses of more than $70 ...

  • Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo

    - Whether by accident or coincidence, recent days have seen a variety of Caribbean leaders and journalists question whether the region is failing to pursue leadership roles within international organisations – and thus losing its voice in global issues like trade, climate change, and peace and ...


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Catch Me If You Can [Blu-Ray]

Catch Me If You Can [Blu-Ray]

Steven Spielbergs Catch Me If You Can tells the you-wouldnt-believe-it-if-it-werent-true tale of one Frank W. Abagnale, Jr., who, at the age of 16, dropped out of high school, ran away from home, and took control of his life by developing into a masterful con artist and p ... ...

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  • Altos de Chavon to host first annual Spring Festival

    La Romana, DR.- Casa de Campo, the 7,000-acre luxury resort on the southeastern coast of the Dominican Republic, invites guests to enjoy the best of Dominican culture at Casa de Campo's first annual Spring Festival from May 23-26 at Altos de Chavon.The artist village was modeled after a 16th-century Mediterranean village, complete with an art gallery, an archeological museum with one of ...

  • Missing young man found unharmed in Santiago

    Santiago, DR.- Luis Felipe Baba Suarez, 15, who was missing since Wednesday, was found by police in a hotel room in La Rotonda hotel in Santiago.The teen was located at 5 pm by officers from the Criminal Investigation Police, after receiving a call from the hotel staff.According to the employees, the teen had checked in Thursday afternoon and fed only with chips, juice and soda.Police commander ...

  • Special Bonus for Viva Mobile Recharges on LlamaRepublicaDominicana.com

    LlamaRepublicaDominicana.com announces a promotion on top ups to Viva mobiles in Dominican Republic. Between May 16th - 23rd, a mixed bonus of free minutes and unlimited SMS applies to all mobile recharges to Viva Dominican ...

  • UNWTO Caribbean international tourist arrivals to hit 30 million by 2030

    International tourist arrivals to the Caribbean region are projected to reach 30 million by the year 2030, according to the Tourism Towards 2030 forecast from the UN World Tourism Organization. The Caribbean received a total of 21 million tourist arrivals in 2012. That was announced this week at the 55th Meeting of the UNWTO Commission for the Americas, which is being held in San Jose, Costa ...

  • Caribbean talks conservation on Branson’s island

    Buildings line the shore of Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands, Friday, May 17, 2013. Richard Branson, the adventuring CEO and founder of the Virgin Group of companies is co-hosting a two-day meeting at Necker Island, his home in the British Virgin Islands, where he has developed an ultra-exclusive eco-resort that showcases renewable energy technology, reintroduced flamingoes, imported ...

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