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  • Indian Caribbean Museum in Nat Geo list of 500 sacred places

    The Indian Caribbean Museum, described as "a national treasure, a window to the past, and an opportunity to see history come alive", has been cited by a National Geographic publication that showcases 500 of the world's most powerful and spiritual places and guides travellers who wish to visit them. "This is a fitting recognition in just seven years of our existence, especially as we celebrate ...

  • Haitian refugee pleads for help after her daughter is allegedly kidnapped

    Marie Yvena Senatus-Prince, a 45-year-old refugee from Haiti, has made a plea to Canadian authorities to help locate her 22-year-old daughter, who she says was kidnapped in ...

  • Coffee Leaf Rust Plant Disease Threatens Central American Crops

    Zoom in on the Indian Ocean for our Geo Quiz. We’re looking for an island nation. Its neighbors to the southwest are the Maldives. The island we’re in search of offers an interesting example of how plants changed the world. Back when it was under Dutch control, there were valuable cinnamon plantations across the island we want you to name. In the 19th century the economy shifted ...

  • Dominican Republic Latin American leader in Asia trade

    Miami.-The Dominican Republic is among Latin America's fastest growing trade partners of China and South Korea, according to an analysis by online publication Latinvex based on figures from the International Monetary Fund and the Korean government. Dominican Republic exports to China last year grew 40.8 percent to $411 million. That was the fifth-highest increase in Latin America. Total ...

  • The Caribbean can expect as many as 11 Atlantic hurricanes

    College Park, Md.- The Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and other tropical storm-prone areas had better get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast Thursday, AP reports. NOAA said there'll be 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes. It ...


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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [DVD]

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas [DVD]

About midway through Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Raoul Duke, the alter-ego of gonzo journalist and cult icon Hunter S. Thompson, is standing in the middle of a Las Vegas casino, completely blitzed out of his mind on any number of drugs, and in the voice-over narration, we hear him asking himself what he is doing there. He is supposed to be there covering a cross-country motorcycle race ... ...

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  • The UN nixes Xstrata Nickel’s Dominican Republic mine project

    Santo Domingo.- The United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) on Thursday rejected the planned mine at Loma Miranda (central) by the Canadian company Xstrata Nickel Falcondo. "The deficiency in the environmental impact study concludes that the project doesn't meet the country's environmental and social requirements," said UNDP local representative Velerie Julliand. The ...

  • Noaa predicts wildly active hurricane season out of Atlantic and Caribbean

    Americans were warned on Thursday to brace for an extremely active hurricane season - less than a year after the devastation of Sandy, which hit the east coast in October 2012 - with 13 to 20 named storms, including seven to ...

  • Maersk to Hike Rates in Asia-Caribbean Trade

    From Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Colombia and Puerto Rico, the hike will be $980 per 20-foot container and $1,400 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube ...

  • The Caribbean Treasure islands in trouble

    LAST month McKeeva Bush, the ousted premier of the Cayman Islands, appeared in court to contest a string of charges, some stemming from alleged use of his government credit card in American casinos. His next date with the judge is in June. But in a general election on May 22nd voters delivered their own verdict: with most votes counted, it seemed they had re-elected Mr Bush to the West Bay seat ...

  • EXCLUSIVE As renewed Haiti cholera crisis looms UN blamed for inadequate effort

    As the annual rainy season gathers over Haiti, bringing the risk of a renewed cholera epidemic that first struck in October 2011, growing numbers of health care professionals and relief workers are openly critical of the United Nations -- which many believe brought the deadly disease to Haiti in the first place. "The situation is worse than it was two years ago, " says Duncan ...

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