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Good news. Jamaica is not the most corrupt country in the world . Bad news: we're not exactly high on the list of countries doing well.

On Nov. 13, Claudia Membreno Gomez was cooking dinner for her four children at home in Honduras.

A wine inspired by Jamaican music will be launched into the crowded local wine market in January by American Carlos Daley.

But as more and more islanders go into business for themselves under President Raul Castro's economic reforms, the ethos of capitalism is increasingly seeping into Cuban daily life, often in stark conflict with fundamental tenets of the Cuban Revolution.

The water taxi revved its outboard motors, spitting the scent of gasoline into the tropical air, and then took off, headed from Belize City to San Pedro Town on Ambergris Caye, 35 miles away.

In this February 6, 2013 photo, a Rastafarian named Bongho Jatusy smokes marijuana outside the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston.-AP Delano Seiveright, Guest Columnist Unsurprisingly, a recent survey showed the majority of Jamaicans in support of ganja decriminalisation - a fillip to the growing local and international movement pushing for sensible ... (more)

Winston Dookeran , Trinidad's foreign minister, and Jamaican counterpart A.J. Nicholson field questions from journalists at a press briefing in New Kingston last week.-Rudolph Brown/Photographer Gary Spaulding The legendary insularity that has long marred relationships in sections of the Caribbean conspired last week with the monumental lunacy of ... (more)

Giving up his specialty as a pediatrician, Col. Ram Sagi looks back at the first 15 months of his service as senior physician in the IDF's Southern Command.

Julie Cameron,30, of Ohio won the women's overall division. She posted a time of two hours, 23 minutes and 24 seconds.

We're stumped. What could the New York Post possibly be trying to tell people about Bill de Blasio with its Monday cover? New York's new mayor is very similar to Barack Obama: he's a former left-wing, community organizer who dwells on the past while promising a great future.

The Fourth Annual Caribbean-United States Security Cooperation Dialogue, part of the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative , was held on Friday, December 6, 2013 at the U.S Department of State.

SAN Fernando West MP Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan has challenged the management of the newest Hi-Lo Superstore to add more local content by promoting product created by young entrepreneurs.

Farmingdale State College sophomore Javier Garcia took first place in the 2013 annual U.S. National Collegiate Mathematics Championship, part of the Mathematical Association of America's conference, Mathfest, held in Hartfod, Conn.

A peaceful protest in the Dominican Republic capital, Santo Domingo, over the failure of the authorities to resolve the issue of statelessness.

Don't you just love how the dictatorship of the proletariat parties in communist utopia? Party like it's 1959! The New Year's dinner gala will combine delicious dishes and enlivening entertainment for the "modest" price of 150 CUC per person, equivalent to $ 3.600 pesos in national currency--the modest Cuban peso which serves to pay the salary of ... (more)

A Charleston-based coast guardsman charged with sexual assault and rape could face more than 20 years of jail time if found guilty.

Federal agents descended on the clinic of a South Florida eye doctor close to Sen. Robert Menendez in January - a dark-of-night raid that soon spiraled into a string of national news stories about trips on the physician's private plane to the Dominican Republic and scandalous allegations of trysts with underage prostitutes.

FROM PRESIDENTS to prime ministers, across the globe, tributes resonated yesterday on every single media platform for Nelson Mandela, the first black president of South Africa and arguably one of the greatest freedom fighters of all times, who died at age 95. Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, in her tribute to Mandela, ranked the late South ... (more)

Clint Buffington was about to give up for the day after combing a beach in the Turks and Caicos Islands for hours.

Nicaraguan officials have called Wednesday's confrontation in the town of Ayapal near the Honduran border little more than an attempted grocery store robbery gone bad.