Caribbean News
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Miami -
The Caribbean and its pristine beaches may be a tourist magnet, but life in paradise comes at a price: the soaring violent crime rate is higher than in Latin America or Africa.
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By AFP
Georgetown -
Leaders of the 15-nation Caribbean Community expressed concern that US President Donald Trump's immigration policies could lead to a slowdown in travel to a region dependent on tourism.
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Royal Seas Cruises is known for their top quality cruises to some of the best destinations in the Caribbean. Royal Seas Cruises also has some of the very best live entertainment available today in the entire cruise industry.
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Washington -
US military helicopters sent to provide humanitarian relief in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew have almost completed their mission and should leave in the coming days, a senior official said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
At least 473 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled swaths of southern Haiti last week, officials said Tuesday, as hard-hit communities struggled to rebuild homes and access food and clean water.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Haiti began three days of mourning Sunday for hundreds killed in Hurricane Matthew as relief officials grappled with the unfolding devastation in the Caribbean country's hard-hit south.
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Jacksonville -
A weakened Hurricane Matthew made landfall on Saturday in South Carolina, nearing the end of a four-day rampage that left a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean and up the southeastern US coast, now swamped by record floods.
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Jeremie -
The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear Saturday as the death toll surged past 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country's south.
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By AFP
Jeremie -
The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear Friday as the death toll surged over 400, three days after Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of the country's south.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
At least 400 people are now known to have died as Hurricane Matthew leveled huge swaths of Haiti's south, a local senator told AFP Friday.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Hurricane Matthew killed more than 300 people as it smashed through southern Haiti, a senator from the region said.Senator Herve Fourcand said that figure is still preliminary, as some areas hit by the powerful storm are still inaccessible.
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By AFP
Les Cayes -
Hurricane Matthew left behind chaos in Haiti, with roads cut to several districts and reports of more than 300 dead and even more hurt or left homeless.
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By AFP
Miami -
Hurricane Matthew unleashed torrential rains and up to 120 mile-an-hour winds as it hugged the Florida coast Friday, after a blast through the Caribbean that reportedly left more than 400 dead in Haiti.
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By AFP
Jacksonville -
Shelters along the eastern coast of Florida were jammed amid a frantic race to protect people and pets from the "potentially catastrophic" effects of Hurricane Matthew as the deadly storm barrels in from the Caribbean.
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By AFP
Miami -
Hurricane Matthew menacingly churned northward up Florida's east coast Friday after leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
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By AFP
Guant -
Cuban fisherman Heneydis Suarez probably saved his and his family's lives by seeking shelter in a neighbor's house as Hurricane Matthew pummeled the island Tuesday.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Hurricane Matthew has claimed at least 108 lives in Haiti, Interior Minister Francois Anick Joseph told AFP Thursday, two days after the monster storm ripped through the poorest country in the Americas.
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By AFP
Miami -
The United States began evacuating coastal areas on Wednesday as Hurricane Matthew churned toward the Bahamas, after killing at least nine people in the Caribbean in a maelstrom of wind, mud and water.
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By AFP
Washington -
The eye of Hurricane Matthew has reached eastern Cuba after the deadly storm ploughed through Haiti and the Dominican Republican, triggering mass floods and leaving at least seven dead, a US-based monitor said Tuesday.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Southern Haiti, lashed relentlessly by Hurricane Matthew, was cut off from the rest of the country Tuesday after a bridge collapsed, authorities said.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
It's a dangerous game of cat and mouse: Haitians creep up to the bank of a river turned into a raging torrent by Hurricane Matthew, then scamper away.The wind howls and rains falls in buckets.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Hurricane Matthew made landfall in southwestern Haiti early Tuesday, triggering major floods and forcing thousands to flee the path of the deadly storm that has already claimed two lives in the poorest country in the Americas.
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By AFP
Port-au-prince -
Hurricane Matthew has left one person dead and another missing in Haiti, officials said Monday, as it churns through the Caribbean as the worst storm in nearly a decade.A boat with three fishermen capsized Friday off the coast of southern Haiti.
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Tropical Storm Matthew is gaining strength as its continues on its track west into the warm waters of the Caribbean. As of 8:00 p.m., Matthew was located about 90 miles west of St. Lucia and had slowed to about 15 mph.
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By AFP
Havana -
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday accused the United States of exerting "brutal pressure" on nations in the region to isolate his country, already battered by an economic crisis and domestic political upheaval.
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Scientists have discovered that some fish use a clever mechanism to disguise themselves and avoid hungry predators in the open ocean.
These findings may also help the military create more effective ways to use this type of camouflage.
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By AFP
Havana -
Tropical storm Erika broke up as it raked across Cuba, drenching the drought-parched island in heavy rain after killing at least 20 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
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By AFP
Roseau -
Tropical Storm Erika churned across the Caribbean on Saturday, a day after sweeping over the tiny island nation of Dominica and leaving at least 20 people dead.
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The National Hurricane Center's (NHC) latest update, issued at 5 p.m. EST is forecasting that Hurricane Danny, now a category 3 tropical cyclone, with sustained winds of 115 mph, is expected to weaken starting tonight.
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Toronto -
With a clean blanket of snow on the ground it may seem like Carnival season is far away in Toronto but Spirits & Spice week at Marché Restaurant is bringing on the sun while raising funds for The Caribbean Scholarship Foundation (CSF).
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Devastation in Haiti by Hurricane Sandy Video screen capture
Cocoa, affected by the cyanide in the ground water in Dominican Republic. MiMundo
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Devastation in Cuba from Hurricane Sandy Video screen capture
Hurricane Danny is a category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. NOAA/NHC
Devastation in Haiti by Hurricane Sandy Video screen capture
Guanaja Island, in the Caribbean, sits 70 miles off the coast of Honduras. NASA
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A resident surveys the open pit gold mining operation in the Dominican Republic. Rainforest Rescue
Devastation in Cuba from Hurricane Sandy Video screen capture
Lime kiln oven at the base of Brimstone Hill
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