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2 hrs ago | The Age

Trio pleads ignorance on $118m

TRIO Capital has been unable to give administrators detailed information about almost $118 million its managed investment scheme placed through a British Virgin Islands company.

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Related Topix: World News, British Virgin Islands, Australia,

6 hrs ago | The Birmingham News

Zurich gets $225M California earthquake protection

Swiss insurer Zurich Financial Services Group said Monday it has received a $225 million reinsurance protection from Lakeside Re II Ldt.

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Related Topix: Cayman Islands, World News

Sun Dec 27, 2009

Reuters

Feds investigating Stanford ties to lawmakers: report

U.S. federal authorities are investigating millions of dollars contributed by accused fraudster Allen Stanford and his staff to U.S. lawmakers over the past decade, the Miami Herald reported on Sunday.

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Related Topix: World News, Antigua and Barbuda, Pete Sessions, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Texas

NBC12

Panic _ but no deaths _ in jet accident in Jamaica

Passengers on American Airlines Flight 331 had endured the crowded airports and delays of holiday travel, and were moments from their Caribbean destination.

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Related Topix: World News, Jamaica, Chicago Metro, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

Sat Dec 26, 2009

Star Phoenix

Comfort & joy

Early spring, 1995, and in the tropics of Nicaragua it was beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

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Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Nicaragua, Christmas, World News, Wedding, Haiti, Egypt,

Virgin Islands Daily News

VIPD offers holiday tips and warnings

In its effort to ensure that locals and visitors alike have a safe holiday season, top brass of the Virgin Islands Police Department held a press conference Wednesday to discuss enforcement efforts and provide tips to the public.

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Related Topix: Virgin Islands, World News

Fri Dec 25, 2009

Nashua Telegraph

NH man on Jamaican flight known for calm in crisis

Gary Wehrwein and his wife were headed to Jamaica for vacation Tuesday night when American Airlines Flight 331 overshot the runway in Kingston, injuring more than 40 of the 154 people aboard.

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Related Topix: Jamaica, World News, Keene, NH, Kingston, NH

Boston Herald

Caribbean flavor

From his corner convenience store in Little Haiti, Ashraf Mashni sees a thriving Caribbean village.

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Related Topix: Haiti, World News, Travel, Miami, FL, Haiti Travel, Miami-Beach, FL, Entertainment

Thu Dec 24, 2009

Budget Travel

Mexico & Central America, Air/Cruise, 8 Nights, From $849

Stay a night in New Orleans and then set sail for Mexico, Honduras, and Belize. Monday, December 21, 2009 The Real Deal Round-trip airfare to New Orleans on a national carrier; one night at the Sheraton New Orleans ; seven nights' accommodations in a inside cabin on the Norwegian Spirit with stops in Mexico , Honduras , and Belize ; all meals and ...

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Related Topix: Travel, Mexico Travel, Belize Travel, World News, Belize,

Slam Sports

Cuba to see record 2.4M tourists in 2009, but discounts hurt revenues

Cuba says more than 2.4 million tourists will come to the sun-kissed island by the end of the year, up 3.3 per cent from 2008's record, though deep discounts and shorter stays mean vacation industry revenues are down overall.

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Related Topix: Cuba, World News, Cuba Travel, Travel, Winter Sports, Curling

Reuters

Honduras' Zelaya stuck in embassy for Christmas

Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya will spend Christmas with his family stuck inside the soldier-ringed Brazilian Embassy where he has been holed up for months after being toppled in a June coup.

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Related Topix: Honduras, World News, Life, Holidays, Christmas, Manuel Zelaya,

Wed Dec 23, 2009

Ventura County Star

US lawmaker criticizes Haiti election exclusions

U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters is criticizing a decision by Haiti's electoral council to exclude more than a dozen political parties from next year's legislative elections.

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Related Topix: Haiti, World News, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Maxine Waters, California

News-Medical.Net

MSU researchers expand global health outreach

Expanding Michigan State University's global health outreach, a team of researchers is working in the Dominican Republic to establish a model for HIV/AIDS care that can be exported to other resource-limited countries.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, World News, Dominican Republic, Michigan State University, Medicine

Sunherald.com

Dominica opposition shuns election, seeks boycott

Opposition leaders in Dominica are boycotting the newly chosen Parliament, alleging fraud and other irregularities in last week's elections.

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Related Topix: World News, Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit

ABC7News

Plane overshoots Jamaica runway; more than 40 hurt

An American Airlines flight from Miami with more than 150 aboard overshot a runway while landing during a heavy rainstorm in Kingston Tuesday night, injuring more than 40 people, officials said.

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Related Topix: World News, Jamaica, Weather, Fort Worth, TX, Fort Worth Metro, Dallas Metro

Tue Dec 22, 2009

WHDH

Puerto Rico OKs one lowest drunk-driving limits

Puerto Rico has adopted one of the world's toughest legal limits for drunk driving by young adults.

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Related Topix: Luis Fortuno, US House of Representatives, World News, Puerto Rico

Philadelphia's WB 17

Report says at least 225,000 children in Haiti enslaved as unpaid household servants

Poverty has forced at least 225,000 children in Haiti's cities into slavery as unpaid household servants, far more than previously thought, a report said Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Haiti, World News, 9

Examiner.com

American culture in Central America

It`s one thing to be told your whole life that the United States is the most powerful nation on earth.

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Related Topix: Costa Rica, World News

Stabroek News

Cubans get down on it with Kool & the Gang

The main road along Havana's seafront, the Malecon, was sealed off on Sunday as thousands of Cubans flocked to a free open air concert by the veteran American funk disco band Kool & the Gang.

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Related Topix: Funk, Kool & the Gang, Cuba, World News

Virgin Islands Daily News

Main Street shoppers load up on gifts and goodies

Daily News Photos by SEAN McCOY People cheer for the Antilles Steel Hurricanes. ST. THOMAS - While the crowds may have been a little thinner than normal at Miracle on Main Street this year, the holiday spirit was shining brightly Friday as people ate, drank and shopped to their heart's content.

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Related Topix: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, World News, Virgin Islands, Life, Holidays, Christmas

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