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A team of experts from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is due in Trinidad this week to look at reports of an outbreak of dengue in the twin-island Republic. read more »
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Guyana on Saturday became the second Caribbean Community (Caricom) member, after Suriname, to pull Chinese dairy products off the market, amid a world-wide alert on Chinese milk tainted with melamine. read more »
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Chris Dehring's recent article in the Jamaica Observer titled Time to bottle lightening ... and develop the Jamaican sports industry- Part I is well-needed and I hope that those with the capital to invest are paying attention. He speaks of Reggae music, saying "It is speculated that Jamaica retains less than one per cent of a US$500-million global reggae music market - a result of our tardiness in recognising the vast potential of this cultural asset." read more »
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A month after the last cyclones hit Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières medical teams have found a whole village completely submerged and its 2,400 inhabitants stranded with no help. read more »
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St Kitts was plunged into darkness in the wee hours of Friday morning when fire damaged two of the nine generators at the island's only power station. read more »
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Authorities in Haiti say the death toll from four storms that ravaged the Caribbean nation over the summer has nearly doubled to about 800 people. read more »
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Trinidad and Tobago based insurance firm American Life and General Insurance Company (ALGICO), partly owned by American Insurance Group (AIG), is not in any risk due to the overwhelming credit crunch that the United States and most of the world is currently facing. read more »
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he Venezuelan government, with help from Cuban military advisors and leftist Colombian guerrillas, is operating a secret paramilitary training camp in a closed-off tourist campground near here, former participants and government critics say. read more »
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