MIAMI — A low pressure system in the southwestern Caribbean Sea is likely to develop in a few days, according to the National Hurricane Center’s latest
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Sweeping blackouts in Cuba raise the question: Why has the island’s solar buildout been so slow?
HAVANA (AP) — Cuba’s large-scale blackouts that left 10 million people without power this month may not have happened if the government had built out more solar
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Cuba fights to come back from a nationwide blackout, then a storm that killed 7
HAVANA (AP) — A small town in Cuba was recovering Tuesday from flooding that killed at least seven people after Oscar crossed the island’s eastern coast as a tropical
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Uber Soca cruise to mix revelers and residents in Frederiksted town
CHRISTIANSTED — The VITEMA director, St. Croix traffic commander and Government House spokesman were all featured in the weekly press briefing in St. Croix on
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Cubans struggle with an extended power outage and a new tropical storm
HAVANA (AP) — Many Cubans waited in anguish and some took to the streets in protest as widespread blackouts stretched into their third day. Their
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Oscar brings winds, heavy rains to eastern Cuba after striking the Bahamas
HAVANA — Tropical Storm Oscar brought heavy rains and winds to Cuba, an island already beleaguered by a massive power outage, late Sunday after brushing
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Firefighters work to extinguish blaze at Anguilla landfill
FREDERIKSTED — A large plume of smoke could be seen rising into the St. Croix sky for much of Sunday, another telltale sign that the
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Hurricane Oscar makes landfall in the Bahamas, heads towards Cuba
NASSAU — Hurricane Oscar made landfall early today in the southeastern Bahamas and was heading towards Cuba. Oscar, which the hurricane center characterized as “very
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Hazardous marine conditions existed in the USVI and Puerto Rico when Invest 94L passed
SAN JUAN — The Coast Guard cautions recreational boaters, fishermen, beachgoers and water sports enthusiasts in U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico of potential high-surf and
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Man charged with abandoning dog in floodwaters as Florida residents evacuated ahead of hurricane
TAMPA (AP) — A man has been arrested for animal cruelty after authorities say he abandoned his dog in floodwaters near a highway as residents
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