LONDON (Reuters) — Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London on Wednesday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries
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Laws In Some Caribbean Countries Still Criminalize Gay Sex
ST JOHN’S, Antigua (AP) — In recent years, several Caribbean nations have struck down laws criminalizing same-sex relations. Courts in Belize in 2016 and Trinidad
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Tropical Storm Bonnie Continues To Trundle Towards The Caribbean
MIAMI — Atlantic hurricane season officially starts June 1, but doesn’t usually ramp up until July or August. But an unusually early tropical storm has
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Windward Islands Warily Watching Tropics With ‘Bonnie’ Brewing In Caribbean
MIAMI — A tropical depression or storm may develop in the eastern Atlantic and head toward the Windward Islands, then into the Caribbean Sea next
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Florida Companies Donate COVID-19 Rapid Tests To Barbados, St. Lucia
MIRAMAR, Florida — Two Florida companies have joined forces to donate over 20,000 rapid Antigen tests to the OECS member states and Barbados. The kits donated
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Caribbean Leaders Grateful That COVID-19 Vaccine Has Trickled Down To Them, Thanks Largely To India
ROSEAU — As the leader of a small Caribbean island still struggling to rebuild nearly four years after a devastating hurricane, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit
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China Spying On United States Citizens Through Security-Lax Caribbean Mobile Phone Networks
BRIDGETOWN — China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil United States mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against
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Barbados Removes Admiral Nelson Statue In Break With Its British Colonial Past
BRIDGETOWN — Barbados removed the statue of British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson from the capital Bridgetown’s main square recently, two months after announcing plans to
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‘Wasted Moment:’ SeaDream 1 Becomes Nightmare For Passengers Aboard Now That 1 Person Has COVID-19
BRIDGETOWN — The first cruise ship to set sail in the Caribbean since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has reported that a passenger on
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Texas Couple Has Been Trapped In Barbados Since March Because Of COVID-19
BRIDGETOWN — Bonnie and Bill Jennings flew to Barbados in early March. They went to visit their daughter and son-in-law who live year round near
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