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[SIZE="3"]A Time to Choose: Caribbean Development in the 21st Century[/SIZE]



The Caribbean region is at a development crossroads and its member nations must take significant and concrete steps to improve productivity and competitiveness and face up to a more global competition if they are to accelerate or even maintain past growth, says a new World Bank report. By taking such steps, they will reposition themselves strategically as an emerging trading bloc for goods and services; without such action, they risk growing economic marginalization and erosion of many of the social gains of the last three decades.

Latin America and Caribbean - A Time to Choose: Caribbean Development in the 21st Century

[SIZE="3"]New PM: Haiti ready for private investment[/SIZE]
The new Haitian Prime Minister says he intends to tap into existing good will in the international community to attract more investments for the country.


Haiti looking to the international community for new investments

Donor nations pledged in April to provide US$324 million over two years to help rebuild the struggling Caribbean state.

Prime Minister Jean Max Bellerive officially took power on Wednesday, promising to work closely with lawmakers in Haiti's parliament who recently fired his predecessor.

BBCCaribbean.com | BBC Caribbean News in Brief

[SIZE="3"]Rihanna, Brixton Academy, London[/SIZE]
By Ludovic Hunter-Tilney

Published: November 17 2009 23:37 | Last updated: November 17 2009 23:37




The sunniness is now extinguished. The mood at this promo concert for new album Rated R was dark and aggressive. Beamed worldwide on the internet, it was her first headline appearance since being beaten up by pop-star boyfriend Chris Brown in February. According to police reports, Brown bit Rihanna, put her in a headlock and punched her in the face. Like Tina Turner, another victim of domestic abuse, she?s responded in feisty fashion ? ie by recruiting a rock band and turning up the decibels.

FT.com / Arts - Rihanna, Brixton Academy, London

[SIZE="3"]Mutiny in the Caribbean[/SIZE]

The British government took matters into its own hands following a Foreign Office report which found "clear signs of political amorality and immaturity and of a general administrative incompetence" within the island nation's parliament.




BBC - Today - Mutiny in the Caribbean

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[SIZE="3"]US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America[/SIZE]

From the Caribbean to Brazil, political opposition to US plans for 'full-spectrum operations' is escalating rapidly

By Hugh O'Shaughnessy



The United States is massively building up its potential for nuclear and non-nuclear strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean by acquiring unprecedented freedom of action in seven new military, naval and air bases in Colombia. The development ? and the reaction of Latin American leaders to it ? is further exacerbating America's already fractured relationship with much of the continent.

US builds up its bases in oil-rich South America - Americas, World - The Independent

[SIZE="3"]Jamaica: Cool in the Caribbean[/SIZE]

Jamaica once thrived on sugar exports. Now it imports tourists drawn to luxury resorts, beach hangouts and the seductive sound of reggae



" . . . . . .The White Witch was Annie Mae Pattinson, who was born in England but was schooled in voodoo during her formative years, which were spent in Haiti. She moved into Rose Hall in 1820 when she married the owner, John Rose Palmer. Within 11 years, she had seized control of the plantation and murdered her first, second and third husbands, while also dispatching countless slaves whom she had taken as lovers. She met her end when she was strangled in 1831 by a former slave who was enraged that Annie had killed his grand-daughter in a jealous love-match over the plantation book-keeper. . . . . . . "

Jamaica: Cool in the Caribbean - Americas, Travel - The Independent