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SOON-TO-BE TROPICAL DEPRESSION MOVING AT THE SAME SLOW PACE AS HURRICANE IRMA IN 2017 MIAMI — While the Atlantic basin remains active, — only one system is worth watching — Invest 98L expected to become a tropical depression today. New this morning, Peter and Rose have both weakened to tropical
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Llama Antibodies Might Be ‘Game Changer’ In Fight Against COVID-19, Belgians Say
GHENT, Belgium -— Llama antibodies could soon be playing a role in the global fight against COVID-19, if clinical trials being conducted by a Belgian biomedical start-up live up to their early promise. Researchers from the VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology in Ghent say antibodies extracted
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3,000 Passengers Trapped On Cruise Ship Due To 1 COVID-19 Case Can Finally Leave
SINGAPORE — Guests began leaving a Genting Cruise Lines 'cruise to nowhere' this evening after nearly 3,000 passengers and crew were confined to their staterooms through most of the day following the detection of a COVID-19 case onboard. A 40-year-old passenger tested positive onboard and the
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Fierce Tropical Wave Leaves Africa As Second System Near Barbados Devolves Into A Trough
MIAMI — Forecasters are tracking a tropical wave that emerged off Africa today as a previous wave near Barbados was downgraded. The strong tropical wave located over the far east Atlantic off the African coast is producing a broad area of showers and thunderstorms. As the system moves
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MAP QUEST: Researchers Complete First-Ever Detailed Map of Global Coral
HONOLULU — Researchers have completed a comprehensive online map of the world’s coral reefs by using at least two million satellite images from across the globe. The Allen Coral Atlas, named after late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, will act as a reference for reef conservation, marine planning
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U.S. Virgin Islands Tourism Says ‘Buon Giorno’ To Italian Travelers
ROME — The Virgin Islands Department of Tourism took its marketing messages to Italy in anticipation of welcoming European visitors once again this November. “Italy is one of a select group of international markets in which the territory will strategically focus its marketing activities in the
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Panama Burying More Migrant Victims Of Brutal Darien Gap
AGUA FRIA — In an isolated cemetery in Panama’s Darien province, migrants who die crossing the most treacherous segment of their journey toward the United States are buried with a plasticized card containing what little information is available about them in case one day someone comes looking. On
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Haiti’s History of Violence and Rebellion
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first Black-led republic when it threw off French rule in the 19th century. But it has suffered cycles of violence, invasion and repression for most of its subsequent
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ALONG CAME LARRY: NHC Tracking 4 Disturbances In The Tropical Atlantic
MIAMI — Tropical Storm Kate formed today in the Atlantic, hurricane forecasters said. It is one of four disturbances they are tracking, including Ida, which hit Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane yesterday. As of 11 a.m., Ida had weakened into a tropical storm and was moving northeast over
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USVI Coach Ngongba Aims To ‘Invest In The Islands Beyond Just Basketball’
MIAMI — It has been a fast and amazing first few months of 2021 for the Virgin Islands Women’s National Team head coach Tajama Abraham Ngongba. In March she was selected to lead the women’s program for the second time on her home islands. Soon after, eight days to be
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90 People Arrested In Guadeloupe Over Clashes With Police Over COVID Rules
BASSE-TERRE — Protesters in French overseas territories in the Caribbean opposing measures to limit the spread of COVID-19 clashed again with security forces on Tuesday as the Paris government vowed to restore order. French authorities have extended the curfew imposed on the island of Guadeloupe
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Beat The Bull Market In Q4 With Covesting Copy Trading
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, the stock market, even oil and natural gas; All of these assets have now set a higher high in the last quarter of the year, suggesting that we’ve not seen anything yet in terms of what the bull market is capable of. However, at the same
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Police Say Remains Found At Bugby Hole Can’t Be Those Of Sarm Heslop: VIPD
CHRISTIANSTED — The Virgin Islands Police Department is responding to inquiries from members of the British-based press, attempting to link the dead body found in Bugby Hole on May 19 to the disappearance of Sarm Heslop from St. John on March 8. 'Although detectives presently cannot identify the
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Coast Guard Takes 83 Illegal Migrants Back To Their Native Countries
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier crew transferred 77 Dominican and six Haitian migrants to a Dominican Republic Navy vessel Wednesday near Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, following the interdiction of two illegal voyages in the Mona Passage. The first illegal voyage was interdicted
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‘Offshore’ Banks Can Be Tucked Away Anywhere These Days … Even On Shore
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, BVI — A mention of “tax havens” usually conjures up images of sun-soaked Caribbean escapes like the Cayman Islands or the British Virgin Islands, maybe the buttoned-down banks of Switzerland., but certainly not ,,, South Dakota. But a report detailing how world leaders and some
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Pfizer: COVID-19 shot 95% effective, seeking clearance soon | The Atlanta Voice
Pfizer says that more interim results from its ongoing coronavirus vaccine study suggest the shots are 95% effective and that the vaccine protects older people most at risk of dying from COVID-19. The announcement, just a week after Pfizer first revealed promising preliminary results, comes as the
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Anti-LGBT+ Laws Cost Caribbean Billions In Lost Business, Report Says
ROAD TOWN, Tortola — Businessman Richard Branson on Wednesday urged Caribbean countries to be more LGBT-friendly as a report said anti-gay laws cost the region’s 12 English-speaking nations up to $4.4 billion a year in lost tourism and emigration. “Business can be a driving force for
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Black, Asian history to be mandatory in Welsh schools
Students in Wales will be taught about racism and how Black, Asian and other minority ethnic communities (BAME) have contributed to society, according to a report from The Guardian. The country's government said that BAME history's teachings are mandatory and would help youth grow into 'ethical and
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Guadeloupe Put On Strict Curfew By French Over COVID-19 Protocols Unrest
LE GOSIER — Residents in the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, an overseas territory of France, expressed dismay today after protests against COVID-19 restrictions erupted into rioting and looting for the third day in a row, prompting French authorities to send in police special forces. Road
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NHC Says ‘Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven’ Could Be Called Grace Tomorrow
SAN JUAN — Potential Tropical Cyclone Seven is expected to become the seventh named storm of the year by tomorrow, the National Hurricane Center said in its 11 a.m. update today. If the disturbance develops it will get the name Grace. The tropical wave is 840 miles east of the
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Could COVID-19 Keep Cruise Lines Homeporting In The Caribbean Indefinitely?
Will the decision by several U.S. cruise lines to home port in the Caribbean this summer become a permanent fixture, or is it just a temporary workaround? The widespread suspicion that it is the latter, was succinctly voiced in one recent online posting on Tribune242’s website in The
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Skills Revolution Needed To Underwrite Future Caribbean Growth: OP-ED Column
It is no exaggeration to say that education has made the Caribbean what it is today. From rebellion, through emancipation, to the creation of unions and political parties, in revolution and the thirst for independence, education has been the common stream that enabled the flood of
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Core Group signals support for Haiti's designated PM - Los Angeles Sentinel
A key group of international diplomats on Saturday signaled support for Haiti's designated prime minister in the first such statement of its kind following the assassination of President Jovenel Moise _ a move that surprised many because it does not mention the interim prime minister who has
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UN: Tigray's Humanitarian Crisis Worsens, No Eritrean Exit - Los Angeles Sentinel
The U.N. humanitarian chief warned Thursday that the grave humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region is deteriorating, with no sign of Eritrean troops withdrawing and alarmingly widespread reports of systematic rape and other sexual violence mainly by men in
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U.N. Caribbean Arm Revises Region’s 2021 Economic Growth Upwards To 5.9%
SANTIAGO — The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has adjusted upwards its economic growth forecast for the region this year to 5.9 percent, as expectations improve for a global recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic. The United Nations body had projected an expansion
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Tropical Depression To Form In Caribbean; West U.S. Gulf Coast, Mexico Should Watch
A low-pressure area that is expected to form over the southwestern Caribbean sea over the next day has a 40 percent chance of becoming a hurricane over the next 48 hours, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said today. 'Environmental conditions are forecast to be conducive for development, and
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Caribbean Beach Communities Strive To Shut Out Tsunami Risk
BRIDGETOWN — As hotels grab prime seafront land along Barbados’ west coast, the road through Mullins offers an increasingly rare “window to the sea” with unhindered views over the blond beach and shallow Caribbean waters beyond. But for Kimberley Agard, who chairs the local district emergency
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Cryptocurrencies, Central Banks and the Caribbean: OP-ED By David Jessop
In less than three months’ time, El Salvador intends becoming the first country in the world to make Bitcoin its official currency alongside the U.S. Dollar. The country’s president, Nayib Bukele, a populist and media savvy disruptor, says that his decision will generate employment, enable the
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Bryan’s Plea To DeSantis To Stop Lax Vax Rules In Florida Resonates In Caribbean
CHRISTIANSTED —In a letter sent to Governor Albert Bryan, Dominica Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, in his role as chairman of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), thanked the governor for his proactive initiative in writing to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and asking Governor
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Tropical Storm Elsa Expected To Drop Rain On Drought-Stricken U.S. Virgin Islands
BRIDGETOWN — Tropical Storm Elsa formed early this morning east of the Windward Islands and is expected to pass south of the U.S. Virgin Islands tomorrow, according to the latest forecast models. It is currently projected to pass 220 miles south of the U.S. Virgin Islands late tomorrow. “There is
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