SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (March 5, 2010) – Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association Education Foundation (CHTAEF) raised approximately US$70,000 last weekend with a Silent Auction at The York Times Travel Show in New York City.
Louisiana State Penitentiary inmates have shipped off 400 wheelchairs they spent weeks refurbishing and restoring to usable condition..
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s government sent inspectors across the island Thursday to stop stores from selling locally produced hand sanitizers tainted with a dangerous bacteria.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Their home is a pile of rubble, their church in ruins and their honeymoon suite a tent shared with eight relatives.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Two Americans still jailed on kidnapping charges in Haiti will have to wait for their freedom, Judge Bernard Saint-Vil said Tuesday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaica’s reluctance to hand over an alleged crime boss is straining relations with the United States, which is questioning the Caribbean nation’s reliability as an ally against drug trafficking.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Bill Clinton says the needs of many Haiti earthquake survivors are not being met.
The U.N. special envoy for Haiti is urging U.N. officials to provide better shelter and sanitation for hundreds of thousands living in temporary camps at risk from floods and landslides.
LES CAYES, Haiti (AP) — Haitian officials say eight people are dead and two missing after heavy rain pounded the southwest and caused widespread flooding.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Health officials in Puerto Rico have declared an epidemic of dengue fever.
Health Secretary Lorenzo Gonzalez says 210 cases have been confirmed for January, more than triple the number in the same month of 2007. That year proved the worst for the U.S. Caribbean territory in nearly a decade, with 11,000 cases.
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Cash-strapped Jamaica says it is getting a $45 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve education in island schools.
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