Related News ItemsCaribbean losing U.K. visitors, Cuba's numbers climbingFri, 03 Feb 2012 21:03:40 -0800
The English-speaking Caribbean is moaning about the loss of 300,000 visitors from the United Kingdom in its lifeline tourism sector last year. At the same time this is happening, communist-ruled Cuba'
Read More... The Oil Off Cuba: Washington and Havana Dance at Arms Length Over Spill PreventionFri, 27 Jan 2012 10:20:00 -0800
On Christmas Eve, a massive, Chinese-made maritime oil rig, the Scarabeo 9, arrived at Trinidad and Tobago for inspection. The Spanish oil company Repsol YPF, which keeps regional headquarters in Trinidad, ferried it to the Caribbean to perform deep-ocean drilling off Cuba -- whose communist government believes as much as 20 billion barrels of crude may lie near the island's northwest coast. But ...
Read More... Follow the money: Brazilian president travels to Cuba and HaitiTue, 31 Jan 2012 05:41:35 -0800
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, who arrived in Cuba Monday, plans to meet with President Raul Castro today in a trip touted as a trade booster for both countries.
Read More... Catholicism still dominant in Caribbean, but its influence wanesMon, 06 Feb 2012 09:05:03 -0800
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (CNS) -- Trinidad's only Catholic seminary educated future clergy members for six decades, sending graduates to ministries throughout the Caribbean.
Read More... ALBA countries to pool funds in joint bankSun, 05 Feb 2012 14:05:44 -0800
An eight-nation bloc of Latin American and Caribbean countries agreed on Sunday to deposit 1 percent of their international reserves into a jointly administered development bank as they seek to deepen ...
Read More... ALBA: Stepping stone for Latin American independence and unityThu, 09 Feb 2012 09:25:11 -0800
ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Allianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra America), was established in 2004. Member countries are Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela.
Read More... Experts: US ill-prepared for oil spill off CubaMon, 30 Jan 2012 18:38:47 -0800
The U.S. is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast should go awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts told government officials Monday.The ...
Read More... Raúl receives Brazilian PresidentWed, 01 Feb 2012 07:25:04 -0800
PRESIDENT Raúl Castro received in the morning of January 31 President Dilma Rousseff of the Federative Republic of Brazil, who is on an official visit to Cuba.
Read More... U.S. follows Castro to TrinidadTue, 17 Jan 2012 03:54:36 -0800
Raoul Castro traveled to the oil- and gas-rich Caribbean trade bloc island of Trinidad for a triennial summit meeting with regional leaders last week, only to discover that the long arm of the United
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