How could a $32 billion company vaporize overnight? That’s what anyone watching the sudden collapse of FTX, a hot cryptocurrency start-up that plunged into bankruptcy
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US Rescues 12 Haitians From Tiny Island Near Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN — A dozen Haitian migrants who spent five days on a tiny, uninhabited island near Puerto Rico where human smugglers abandoned them were
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St. Kitts Says It No Longer Accepts Worthless Cryptocurrencies For Its Citizenship Program
BASSETERRE —The government of St. Kitts and Nevis, along with the Citizenship by Investment Unit of the country, have refuted claims that investors interested in gaining
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Rising Caribbean Sea Pushes Indigenous Group Off Island: Wall Street Journal
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama—From this tiny, hot and overcrowded island, some 1,200 indigenous Guna people will soon embark on a short but historic exodus. Next year,
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Saint Lucia Increases Its Production Capacity to Overcome Dependency on Food Imports
CASTRIES — In response to the global food crisis, Saint Lucia, a small island state in the Caribbean, has rolled out a number of government programs
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Tropical Storm Nicole Bears Down on the Bahamas, Florida
MIAMI (AP) — Many people evacuated from vulnerable locations in the northwestern Bahamas as Tropical Storm Nicole approached Wednesday and residents of Florida braced for the storm,
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Kyiv Region Still Struggles 6 Months After Russian Retreat
MOSCHUN, Ukraine (AP) — Standing amid the wreckage of his home, Vadym Zherdetsky shows photos on his phone of how it once looked: handsome rooms,
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DROOPY DRAWERS! USVI Women’s Basketball Team Has To Wear Men’s Uniforms For Lack of $$$$
CHARLOTTE AMALIE — The U.S. Virgin Islands Senior Women’s Basketball team has so little money in its operating budget, that it is forced to wear
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Needed Medical Technology Deployed For The First Time in Trinidad and Tobago
PORT OF SPAIN — The first ever portable hematology analytical instrument by Sight Diagnostics called the OLO has been installed in the Caribbean to provide near-immediate Complete
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Science, Technology and Innovation For Sustainable Development: Lessons From the Caribbean’s Energy Transition
Countries with robust science-technology-innovation-based policies and strategies are known to have an advantage in global competitiveness and achieve robust growth and development. Science, technology and
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