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Venezuela Earthquake Shakes Trinidad, Southern Caribbean

  By the Caribbean Journal staff A 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Venezuela on Tuesday, rocking northern Venezuela and causing strong tremors across much of the southern Caribbean. The quake, which struck at 5:31 PM local time, was felt most strongly in neighboring Trinidad and Tobago, while reports of shaking were reported in Grenada, Barbados, St Vincent…

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Top St Thomas Resort to Be Sold

  By the Caribbean Journal staff The 300-room Sugar Bay Resort and Spa in St Thomas is to be sold, Caribbean Journal has learned. The owners of the St Thomas property have tapped the Carlton Group to sell the US Virgin Islands resort. Sugar Bay is being offered on a simple fee basis, unencumbered by…

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Eleven months after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican team making a Little League World Seris run

… the Puerto Rico dugout. An emphatic roar filled Volunteer Stadium, as miniature Puerto Rican flags waved in tandem with fatheads of each player. The Puerto Rico … for my guys and for Puerto Rico, and my city,” Rosario … Powered by WPeMatico

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Grenadian PM’s alliance with Russians raises questions

By Youri Kemp Caribbean News Now associate editor youri@caribbeannewsnow.com ST GEORGE’S, Grenada — A strange and oddly shaped alliance between Grenada’s prime minister, Dr Keith Mitchell, and Russian technology magnate and ambassador of Grenada to Russia, Oleg Firer, are raising eyebrows in the tiny island nation of Grenada and may expand to other island neighbours…

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Hurricane Irma sends decade-old US-Antigua dispute back into the spotlight

By Andrew Lumsden Research Fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs WASHINGTON, USA — Last month, Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States, sought support in a speech before a meeting of the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) in Geneva, Switzerland. He lamented that his country is “losing…

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