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Colombia seeks eco-tourism boost

By Henry Mance Residents of the town of La Macarena frequently toss a phrase into conversation: "Cuando estaba la guerrilla..." - "When the guerrillas were here..." It is an understated way of describing the region's past troubles. Between 1998 and
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Offshore centres hit back

Offshore jurisdictions in the Caribbean have hit back at what they called a 'witch hunt' against them, even as they sought to be removed from an international list of non-compliant tax havens. Financial centres in the region and elsewhere have been
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Caricom pays tribute to Caribbbean literary icons

Trevor Rhone. GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Caribbean Community (Caricom) governments have paid tribute to three internationally renowned literary figures who died earlier this month. In a statement, the Guyana-based Caricom Secretariat said the region had l
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Cherine Anderson Charts on Billboard!!!

Cherine performing in Los Angeles, CA 09/23/2009 Cherine Anderson may be the first Jamaican female artist in recent times to hit not one but five Billboard charts simultaneously. The feat brings about another first in Anderson’s short career, as sh
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Raul Castro pushes Cubans to rethink socialism

By Marc Frank HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters) -- Cubans began taking a hard look this week at entrenched customs like food rationing, pilfering on the job, cradle-to-grave subsidies and black market trading in a national debate called by President Raul Castr
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Getting US attention

By Sir Ronald Sanders Business analyst and former Caribbean diplomat During this month, I was invited to deliver a lecture to 85 high-ranking military officers from Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, Asia and the Middle-East on the subje
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Bahamas outlook clouds for Haitians

Thousands of Haitians see the Bahamas as a land of promise. By Nick Davis - BBC News, The Bahamas Row after row of taxis are lined up along the street, their drivers milling about as tourists stream off the latest cruise ship to have docked in Nass
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Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary poi
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St Vincent ponders change to republic

Ralph Gonsalves wants a 'home-grown' constitution Guyana, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago among Commonwealth Caribbean nations have done it. Now St Vincent and the Grenadines is being asked to follow suit and ditch Queen Elizabeth of Britain as th
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Caribbean improves business climate

Two reports this week cast a light on the climate for doing business in the Caribbean and the evidence suggests an improving picture. Both the World Bank and the World Economic Forum both issued their assessments of how countries around the world ar
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UWI campus planned for Grenada

Grenada government is aiming to have a University of the West Indies (UWI) campus on the island within another three years. That was one of the plans outlined for education by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas in an address to the nation last night. He
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Caribbean region aims for broadband revolution

A 2009 World Bank report has said that access to affordable high-speed Internet and mobile phone service is key to economic growth and job creation in developing countries. And the Bank has offered to help the Caribbean improve information and tele
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Gramps Morgan's Star Still Shining

Gramps Morgan performing in Charlotte N.C. GBurkeImages Photo Reggae’s fastest rising star Gramps Morgan has just achieved a rare enviable feat of moving over 12,000 units of his blazing hot debut album “2 Sides of My Heart Vol. 1” on the Dada Son E

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