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Should Haiti Host the World Cup?
Caribbean Journal
IMAGINE the tiny country of Haiti as host to one of the world’s biggest events: the World Cup.
For now, it may all seem like fiction; however, if Haiti wants to be an emerging country by 2030, what could be more opportunistic to show the rest of the world that it means business than by throwing its name in the pool of possible hosts for the 2026 or 2030 World Cup?
Trouble in paradise – social division in the Cayman Islands
The Telegraph
The Cayman Islands might look perfect, and many expats have found happiness there. However, tension is bubbling under the surface, as our writer discovered.
IMF predicts more Caribbean economic woes
CAYMAN NET NEWS
The Cayman Islands and territories in the Caribbean area are still going to experience hard times, according to a new report by the International Monetary Fund.
St. Kitts & Nevis students among the increasing number of transfers at UVI
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, OCTOBER 12TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Nationals of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis are counted among the increasing number of transfer students attending the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI).
St Vincent’s Gonsalves Urges UN to Apologize For Bringing Cholera to Haiti
By the Caribbean Journal staff
The UN needs to apologize for its role in bringing cholera to Haiti in 2010, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves told the UN General Assembly on Friday.
St Vincent prime minister's son new foreign affairs minister
Caribbean 360
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – Former St. Vincent and the Grenadines ambassador to the United Nations, Camilo Gonsalves, was on Monday sworn in as the country’s new Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister as Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves named three new senators to his administration.
Civil servants, pensioners to get extra month’s salary, announces PM Douglas
BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS, SEPTEMBER 16TH 2013 (CUOPM) – Federal civil servants and pensioners will get an extra salary come pay day on Wednesday 18th September, St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil l. Douglas announced Monday.
Explosion, Flames Engulf Gasworks Station in Bovoni
St Thomas Source
Black smoke and pillars of fire tore through the night's sky Saturday as fuel tanks exploded at the Gasworks service station in Bovoni in a blast one witness described as looking "like an atomic bomb."
Turks & Caicos Premier questions British constitutional power to appoint the dependent territory's Attorney-General
Overseas Territories Review
Letter from Dr. Hon Rufus W. Ewing, Premier, Turks and Caicos Islands to Governor Damian R. Todd. September 2, 2013
BVI-based company offering to buy Marriott building in Guyana -Ramjattan
Stabroek News
With Government finding it difficult to attract the investors and syndicated loans to complete the controversial US$52 million Marriott Hotel project, a British Virgin Islands-incorporated investor has offered to purchase the superstructure with a view to finishing it, Stabroek News has learnt.