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Jenny Lins death remembered with Castro Valley service candlelight walk
CASTRO VALLEY -- A service to mark the 19th anniversary of teenager Jenny Lin is planned for Friday.The public service will begin at 6:30 p.m. at the Castro Valley Library. A candlelight walk in downtown Castro Valley will take place afterward.No arrests have been made in the death of Jenny, 14, who was killed in her home on May 17, 1994.The Jenny Lin Foundation sponsored a contest to raise ...
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Olympics-Puerto Ricos Carrion makes run for IOC presidency
By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN | Wed May 22, 2013 8:59am EDT BERLIN May 22 (Reuters) - Puerto Rican banker Richard Carrion launched his bid for the presidency of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Wednesday, with his long financial experience a powerful pitch in his quest for the world's top sports job. The 60-year-old Carrion, who is chairman of Puerto Rican lender Popular ...
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Dominican Republic eyes growth to slash poverty
SANTO DOMINGO.- Economic growth that translates into poverty reduction and a stronger middle class in the Dominican Republic was at the center of a series of concrete actions presented Tuesday in a high-level national ceremony hosted by the country at the Presidential Palace. The presentation is part of the Caribbean Growth Forum (CGF), a two-year regional platform for dialogue to foster higher ...
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Royal Caribbean vote has CEO against major holder Bloomberg reports
Royal Caribbean's largest investor is challenging Chairman and CEO Richard Fain by supporting a plan that could lead to a board shakeup at the second-largest cruise operator, reports Bloomberg. The measure is supported by A. Wilhelmsen AS, owner of a 19% stake, whose chairman, Arne Alexander Wilhelmsen, is a Royal Caribbean ...
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Hamdan bin Rashid receives Consul General of St. Kitts Nevis
May 21, 2013 - 11:10 - WAM DUBAI, May 21th, 2013 (WAM) -- H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance has received at the court of Dubai Ruler, Alex Woodley, Consul General of St. Kitts '&' Nevis to the UAE who called on him on the occasion of the beginning of her tenure to the ...
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Haiti warns residents of possible thunderstorms
Meteorologists on Tuesday warned communities in western Haiti to stay alert to possible thunderstorms and heavy rains caused by a low-pressure ...
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Cable Wireless Communications targets Caribbean cost cuts
LONDON (Reuters) - Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC.L) met expectations with a 1 percent rise in full-year core earnings, and said it would cut $100 million (65 million pounds) of costs from a business now focused on the Caribbean and ...
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Olympic Games Medallists to Compete in Cuba
Havana, May 22 (Prensa Latina) Italian fencers Valerio Aspromonte and Giorgio Avola are heading a group of Olympic medallists to participate in the World Cups for the foil and sword, said the organizers of the event here Tuesday. Aspromonte and Avola, Olympic Champions in the foil by teams in London in 2012, are heading a high quality group, including other outstanding athletes from the Olympic ...
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Leisure and pleasure Caribbean way of life
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has cited the "leisure and pleasure" way of life as one of the "anti-social" trends developing in the Caribbean in the past ...
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Puma to sell gasoline-ethanol mix in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; A Swiss oil company says it will start selling regular gasoline mixed with ethanol as part of a pilot program in Puerto ...
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Cooperation in Education Between Cuba and Angola Deepened
Luanda, May 21 (Prensa Latina) The perspectives to widen and diversify cooperation between Angola and Cuba in education are promising, especially in the technical-professional teaching level, said an Angolan official here Tuesday. Narciso Damasio dos Santos Benedito, Secretary of State for the Angolan Technical-Professional Formation and Teaching, received Cuban Ministers Council vice president ...
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Organic Cooperative Proves that Agriculture Can Prosper in Cuba
Continuous upgrading and a "vocation" for farming are two keys to the success of a cooperative that could serve as a model for boosting agriculture in ...
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
- As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more ...
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Dominican Republic’s Cardinal slams ruling for sex education
Santo Domingo.- A visibly enraged Catholic cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez on Tuesday issued a scathing to response to National District judge Eunice Minaya's ruling for the family planning agency's (Pro Familia) sex education campaign, which he sarcastically hailed. "I first of all congratulate that most illustrious and wisest of judges for the ruling, secondly, I also ...
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Agency busts ring sent heroin mules to Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo.- The National Control Drugs Agency (DNCD) on Tuesday said it busted a network of heroin dealers based in Sabana de la Mar (northeast), which sent "mules" to Puerto Rico through several airports and the Ferry. The ring was detected after the arrest of Juan de Dios Lopez while boarding the ferry to Puerto Rico, with 96 heroine capsules, while the handicapped Ney Sanchez ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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Nicaraguan Businessmen for Strengthening Trade with Cuba
Managua, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Nicaraguan businessmen are discussing with optimism possibilities of strengthening trade with Cuba, following an agreement between Nicaraguan Chamber of Industries (Cadin), and the Chamber of Trade of that Caribbean country, said a business expert today. According to Doctor Oscar Aleman, who took part in different private ...
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Haiti is The Great Business of NGOs Cuban Experts Said
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Haiti is a business for non-governmental organizations (NGOs), whose interference is greater than their help, Cuban specialists in Caribbean themes denounced today. Gloria Leon, a professor at the University of Havana, revealed the background of interference of many organizations that feed on Haitian poverty and exacerbate it in their own interests. In the panel ...
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Royal Caribbean Vote Pits Chairman Against Largest Holder
Royal Caribbean Ltd. (RCL) 's largest investor is challenging Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fain by supporting a plan that could lead to a board shakeup at the second-largest cruise operator. Investors vote tomorrow on a non-binding shareholder proposal calling for the elimination of staggered directors' terms at Miami-based Royal Caribbean. The company opposes ...
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U.S. Envoy in Cuba Engages Critics On and Offline
Since arriving at the U.S. Interests Section in Havana nine months ago, Conrad Tribble has become perhaps its tweeter-in-chief, while reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal ...
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US Executive Recognizes Cuba as an Important Fishing Destination
Havana, May 21(Prensa Latina) The president of the International Game Fish Association (IGFA), American Rob Kramer, today admitted that Cuba is very important for his organization due to its history and natural conditions. Kramer is attending the 63rd International Billfishing Tournament Ernest Hemingway that is being held until May 25 at the marina facility which carries the name of the famous ...
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U.S. Researchers Participate in Colloquium About Hemingway in Cuba
Havana, May 21 (Prensa Latina) Researchers from the work of writer Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) from the United States, Canada and Japan participate here on an international symposium dedicated to the Nobel Prize for Literature winner, June from 20 to 23. Organized by the Museum House Finca La Vigia, where Hemingway lived nearly two decades, the event will be also attended by specialists from ...
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Cuba lifts import ban on domestic appliances
Cuba has authorised individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts.Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the country for noncommercial purposes. The list of approved items includes air conditioners with a capacity of less than one ton, ovens that ...
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US envoy in Cuba engages critics on and offline
HAVANA (AP) — A U.S. diplomat has become a sort of tweeter-in-chief for the U.S. mission in Cuba, reaching out to some of Washington's most vocal critics on the island.The U.S. Interests Section has long cultivated ties to dissident bloggers and tweeters. But the mission's deputy chief Conrad Tribble has been reaching out to the communist Twitteratti as well.That has prompted ...
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Xi to visit Latin America and the Caribbean
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to Trinidad and Tobago, Costa Rica and Mexico from May 31 to June 6, the foreign ministry announced on Tuesday.Hong Lei, foreign ministry spokesperson, told a press briefing on Tuesday that they will be the first state visits to Latin America and the Caribbean by Xi.Hong said Xi's visit to Trinidad and Tobago will be the first visit to an ...
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Caribbean set to ban the discharge of all non-food waste anywhere in its waters
Every single year, around 50,000 cruise ships alone, carrying a total of 14.5 million passengers, call at various ports in the Caribbean. With them comes sewerage, solid waste, leftover food, oily bilge water, and ‘grey water’ (the waste water from showering, bathing, washing up etc). Years ago, all of this waste would have been dumped into the crystal oceans of the world by cruise lines and other shipping companies, but the Wider Caribbean region has taken steps to prevent the further destruction of their environments.
Right now, at any given time, there are hundreds of cruise ships, tankers, bulk carriers, fishing vessels and pleasure craft frequenting the waters of the Wider Caribbean, a huge area of ocean of around 3.3 million square kilometers. The Wider Caribbean is home to 28 nations, either island nations or countries with a coastline on the Caribbean. Read more
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