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Plundered and corrupted for 200 years, Haiti was doomed to end in anarchy | Kenan Malik
Successive foreign governments plunged it into unpayable debt and left its citizens in penury
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Charles III: Antigua and Barbuda plans vote on King's role as head of state
The country's PM says the poll will be held within three years, but Australia rules out a vote.
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Kick-starting the Caribbean's seaweed farming sector
Phil Cruver, former CEO of Catalina Sea Ranch, explains why he’s now focusing his attentions on producing food-grade seaweed in the Caribbean, using a unique, submersible system.
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Tens of thousands of people living in the Caribbean are on high alert as volcanoes come back to life after remaining dormant for decades
Residents of St. Vincent and the Grenadines have been told to remain alert a Caribbean volcano came back to life. La Soufrière is the highest point in St. Vincent and is located near the northern tip of the country but remained dormant for decades before beginning to spew ash on Tuesday this week, AP reported.
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The pandemic’s indirect hit on the Caribbean
The region has been spared the worst ravages of covid-19. That has not protected its economies
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Les drapeaux et hymnes soumis au vote des Martiniquais ont été dévoilés - Martinique la 1ère
Ça y est la Collectivité Térritoriale de Martinique a dévoilé ce lundi 8 avril 2019 les trois drapeaux et les trois hymnes retenus par les deux commissions de sélection. Les Martiniquais ont jusqu'au 15 avril 2019 pour formuler leur choix.
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God Is In Control
Today is the 1st anniversary of hurricane Irma, which tore through our islands in the BVI and literally crushed us.
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“They be pirates”: An old scourge is reappearing in the Caribbean
Boarded ships, terrorized fishermen and lawless coastlines. It’s a 21st-century version of an old menace.
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Caribbean Nations Agree To Consider Marijuana Legalization
The heads of Caribbean nations have agreed to “review marijuana’s current status with a view to reclassification,” noting “human and religious rights” issues stemming from criminalization as well as “the economic benefits to be derived” from legalization. The move, which was announced by The Caribbean Community (CARICOM), an organization of nations including Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica and others, comes after a committee formed by the group recommended replacing cannabis criminalization with legal regulation.
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Where Is The Border Between North and South America?
The Panamanian border with Colombia is the demarcation between North and South America. The boundaries between the continents of Earth are generally a matter of geographical convention. Several sli…
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Virgin islanders still in shelter after Irma
Six months after Hurricane Irma tore a path of destruction through the Caribbean, how are UK citizens faring?
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Barbuda fears land rights loss in bid to spread tourism from Antigua
As the tiny island destroyed by a hurricane tries to rebuild, the PM of neighboring Antigua aims to revoke centuries-old rights
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Long-lost art of a vanished civilization revealed by British archaeologists
Five centuries after it was largely obliterated by the Spanish conquistadors, the long-lost culture of a vanished civilisation is being rediscovered by British and local archaeologists. Before the Spanish conquest of the islands of the Caribbean, the region's major indigenous people was a culture known as the Tainos.
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Trump mistakenly calls Virgin Islands governor as its president
President Trump said during a speech Friday that he’d recently met with the President of the U.S. Virgin Islands, who is him.
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“Hysteria is starting to spread”: Puerto Rico is devastated in the wake of Hurricane Maria
No power, little access to water, dwindling food: the situation in Puerto Rico right now.
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Caribbean braced for major new hurricane
Hurricane Maria has strengthened to a major category 3 hurricane, US forecasters say, as it heads towards the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean. Maria is moving roughly along the same path as Irma, the hurricane that devastated the region this month. It is due to hit on Monday night local time.
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'For first time in 300 years, there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda'
An estimated 95% of Barbuda’s structures are damaged, and the entire island of around 1,800 people has been evacuated.
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Caribbean islands face long hard road to recover from Irma and Jose
From Cuba to Antigua, Caribbean islanders began counting the cost of Hurricane Irma after the brutal storm left a trail of death, destruction and chaos that could take the tourist-dependent region years to recover from. A Category 5 storm when it hit, Irma killed at least 24 people across the region - estimates range from 24 to 28 dead - devastated housing, power supplies and communications, leaving some small islands almost cut off from the world. European nations sent military reinforcements to keep order amid looting while the damage was expected to total billions of dollars.
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Hurricane Irma destroys ‘95%’ of French part of St. Martin—official
The French part of the Caribbean island St. Martin is “95 percent destroyed” after Hurricane Irma tore through the region, top local official Daniel Gibbs said late Wednesday. “It’s an enormous catastrophe. Ninety-five percent of the island is destroyed. I’m in shock. It’s frightening,” said Gibbs, a former French lawmaker, speaking on Radio Caribbean International.
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NZ tourist killed by jet blast at Caribbean beach airport
A New Zealand tourist has been killed by the blast from a jetliner taking off at a seaside airport in the Dutch Caribbean territory of Sint Maarten, officials say.
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