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Caribbean Indigenous People Return To Roots As COVID-19 Shrinks Tourism

BELMOPAN — Indigenous cultures in the Caribbean, struggling as their tourism-dependent economies are ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic, are returning to traditional farming and fishing roots for their livelihoods, local…

VI Free Press November 28, 2020

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WHO Says Vaccinating 20% of Latin America And Caribbean Will Cost More Than $2 Billion

BRASILIA — Vaccinating 20 percent of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean against COVID-19 will cost more than $2 billion but low income countries will be helped by…

VI Free Press November 28, 2020

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Chinese-Owned Rouge Et Noir Casino Shut Down By Dutch Government For Flouting Operating Contract

PHILIPSBURG --- Rouge Et Noir Casino was ordered closed as of 1 p.m. on Wednesday by the Minister of TEATT Ludmilla de Weever since the establishment violated their ministerial decree…

VI Free Press November 26, 2020

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Columbian Man Arrested In Aruba Charged With Murder Of Transgender Sex Worker In Australia

ORANJESTAD — A 21-year-old Colombian man has been extradited from the Netherlands Antilles to Sydney and charged with the murder of an Australian woman. The body of 69-year-old Kimberley McRae…

VI Free Press November 24, 2020

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‘Minor’ Earthquake Shakes Tortola and Sandy Ground Village In Anguilla Sunday

ROAD TOWN, Tortola — A minor earthquake occurred Sunday afternoon northeast of the British Virgin Islands. No injuries were reported. The 3.6 magnitude struck about 63 miles northeast of Tortola…

VI Free Press November 23, 2020

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Tropical Disturbance Appears Northeast Of The Caribbean: NHC

MIAMI — With a just a little more than a week left in hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center is once again monitoring an area of low pressure that has…

VI Free Press November 22, 2020

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Saharan Dust Still A Problem In The Caribbean Even As Hurricane Season On The Wane

NASSAU — An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took this photograph of storm clouds rising over Andros Island, one of the Bahama Islands. Even though the spacecraft was…

VI Free Press November 22, 2020

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Bodies Of Man And His Slave Unearthed From Ashes At Pompeii

ROME — The skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave fleeing the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago have…

VI Free Press November 21, 2020

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Banana Growers On Guadeloupe, Martinique Poisoned By A Carcinogenic Pesticide

BASSE-TERRE — The results of a French parliamentary commission of inquiry into the use of the carcinogenic pesticide chlordecone in the Guadeloupe and Martinique show that the government “consistently failed”…

VI Free Press November 21, 2020

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2 Columbians Who Tried To Smuggle 3,384 Pounds Of Cocaine On Submarine Get 5 Years In Prison

CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Two Columbians who pleaded guilty to being on a mini-submarine with 3,384 pounds of cocaine off the coast of Ecuador got five years in prison from a…

VI Free Press November 19, 2020