NEWS ABOUT: Caribbean
Caribbean stories: 43 news briefs
Heiress offers details of vacation with boyfriend
Daily Mail (UK) May 11, 09 7:21 AM CDT
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Paris Hilton and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt had a blast on their recent Caribbean vacation. How do we know? She Twittered the entire time, letting her followers know when they were "Having a beautiful lunch on the beach" and "Playing some golf together." Hilton also posted photos of the happy couple smooching for the camera, the Daily Mail reports.
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Associated Press May 9, 09 12:45 PM CDT
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Scientists are airlifting dozens of mountain chicken frogs off their Montserrat island home to save them from the deadly fungus overtaking their habitat, the AP reports. The 2-pound frogs are endangered, in part because locals once ate them as a delicacy. The frog is said to taste like—what else?—chicken. Now scientists fear the spreading chytrid fungus could finish them off.
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Singer moves into new home after epic vacation
Sun (UK) Mar 2, 09 9:05 AM CST
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Amy Winehouse is back in London after a 71-day holiday in St Lucia, but is she there to reconcile with estranged hubby Blake Fielder-Civil? Yes, reports the Sun , which says the troubled singer—who got in a fight with a passenger on her flight home—plans to see Blake, freshly sprung from the slammer. The Mirror disagrees, quoting Amy as denying a reunion.
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British singer's home robbed while she's away in Caribbean
Sun (UK) Jan 30, 09 11:26 AM CST
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Thieves kicked in a padlocked front door at Amy Winehouse’s London home yesterday while the troubled singer was on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia kicking yet another habit, the Sun reports. Police were called to the address to reports of two men forcing entry, but the bandits made off with $21,000 worth of recording equipment, including five guitars, and a flat-screen TV. No arrests have been made.
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Recovering heroin addict is heroine on beach in Caribbean
Sun (UK) Jan 21, 09 10:59 AM CST
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Longtime heroin devotee Amy Winehouse became a heroine yesterday when she rescued a British woman, Baywatch -style, on a Caribbean beach, the Sun reports. During a sailing lesson, the 39-year-old tourist was thrown onto rocks near the sunbathing singer, who rushed to help the injured gal out of the water. Winehouse then cleaned gashes on the woman’s back.
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Swipes booze, runs 'like squirrel with a nut'
Sun (UK) Jan 14, 09 1:01 PM CST
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After the Caribbean resort where Amy Winehouse is supposedly detoxing cut off her booze supply, the oft-addled singer has been seen on all fours prowling guest tables for drinks to steal, and begging vacationers to get her alcohol. Winehouse begins each day with yoga, but is often seen smoking a joint or swigging from a bottle by nightfall, the Sun reports.
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Resort guests ready for her to leave
Sun (UK) Jan 9, 09 11:28 AM CST
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The Caribbean resort where Amy Winehouse is running wild is ready for her to leave, especially after she threw a glass of water on another guest, the Sun reports. The troubled singer “misunderstood a conversation and wrongly believed a slight was made,” her spokesman said, and apologized only to avoid getting police involved. And Winehouse has reportedly extended her stay another week.
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Sun (UK) Dec 31, 08 11:59 AM CST
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Amy Winehouse has a crush on Santa Claus—or at least, the resort worker who played Santa at her St. Lucia hotel, the Sun reports. The troubled singer, who seems to be improving the longer she stays in the Caribbean, has been “following him around like an elf,” another guest says. “Amy has gone from Blake the crackhead to Santa Claus—they couldn’t be more different.”
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Daily Mirror (UK) Dec 27, 08 1:37 PM CST
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Amy Winehouse is giving jailed husband Blake Fielder-Civil another chance, the Daily Mirror reports. His revelations about their relationship and drug use upset Winehouse last month, but she called him in his jail cell on Christmas to reconcile. “She says the best Christmas present will be to have her man home for good," an insider says.
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Singer dances on balcony at Caribbean getaway
Sun (UK) Dec 22, 08 11:02 AM CST
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Amy Winehouse performed while on vacation in the Caribbean, the Sun reports, but her voice wasn't the main attraction. The British singer, who's been fighting a public battle with drugs, appeared on her St. Lucia balcony "with her bits hanging out," a witness said. Winehouse danced around to blaring music, "oblivious to everything." She later went for a topless dip in the ocean.
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Opulent weekend
was funded by top corporations
New York Post Nov 30, 08 8:18 PM CST
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Six US lawmakers, all members of the Congressional Black Caucus, have been caught rubbing shoulders with lobbyists on a trip that violates federal ethics laws, the New York Post reports. Joining them were three New York officials, including the state's governor—who avoided breaking the law by paying his own expenses. The annual conference was sponsored by corporate heavyweights such as Verizon and Citigroup.
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Hurricane could threaten Puerto Rico as Category 2
Bloomberg Oct 15, 08 3:04 PM CDT
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Caribbean oil refineries are under threat from Hurricane Omar, whose 85-mph winds roared through St. Croix today, Bloomberg reports. It could hit the Virgin Islands, home to one of the hemisphere's largest refineries, as a Category 2 storm tomorrow. Puerto Rico may be in line for 20 inches of rain and life-threatening floods, forecasters say.
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Homes wiped out on tiny island as ferocious storm heads for Bahamas
CNN Sep 7, 08 6:49 AM CDT
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A howling Hurricane Ike bent palm trees and ripped up hundreds of homes as it tore through the Turks and Caicos islands in the Caribbean early today. Up to 50% of houses in Grand Turk lost roofs or were completely destroyed by the 135 mph winds, and the entire British island was without power, reports CNN. People were cowering in closets and under stairwells, "holding on for life," said one witness. "They got hit really, really bad."
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Category 3 Gustav headed for the Gulf
Shreveport Times Aug 27, 08 5:22 PM CDT
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New Orleans has a wary eye on Tropical Storm Gustav and may begin evacuations as early as Friday—the third anniversary of Katrina. The storm's path could yet spare the city, but if it hits this weekend, Gov. Bobby Jindal said he wants to be ready, the Shreveport Times reports. He's put Louisiana's National Guard on alert and declared a state of emergency that would make 700 buses available for the most needy.
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Could strike US as Category 3
Associated Press Aug 27, 08 11:09 AM CDT
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Thousands fled their homes as Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said today that he still represents a major threat to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. They suggested the storm could head toward the US Gulf Coast as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane next week—with a likely forecast track pointing toward Louisiana.
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Antigua charges
man and teen in
robbery gone tragic
Guardian (UK) Aug 19, 08 3:46 AM CDT
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A 20-year-old man and a teenager in Antigua have been charged with murder and robbery in the shooting deaths of a honeymooning British couple last month, the Guardian reports. The two are expected to remain in custody until they face trial. The victims were buried last week at the Welsh church where they were married a month ago.
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Associated Press Aug 13, 08 6:45 PM CDT
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A poisonous, fast-multiplying species known as the red lionfish has invaded the warm waters of the Caribbean and poses a serious threat to the native sealife and the fragile ecosytem, reports the AP. "This may very well become the most devastating marine invasion in history," said one expert. Scientists think the ravenous lionfish got a foothold when Hurricane Andrew shattered a private aquarium in 1992.
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Food price hikes push everything but dirt out of reach for Haiti's poor
Guardian (UK) Jul 29, 08 6:08 AM CDT
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Impoverished Haitians have been reduced to living off mud cakes, the Guardian reports. The cakes of clay and water—long eaten by poor pregnant women seeking calcium—are increasingly the only food many families can afford. The global fuel and food crisis has hit Haiti, and half the population is malnourished.
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6 held as husband fights for life after suspected botched robbery
BBC Jul 29, 08 2:34 AM CDT
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Six people are being questioned in the murder of a British bride on the final day of her honeymoon on the Caribbean island of Antigua, reports the BBC. The 31-year-old pediatrician was shot dead and her husband critically wounded in what investigators say was a botched robbery at a cottage at a private resort.
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Seal only one of its kind to vanish because of human causes
MSNBC Jun 7, 08 4:47 PM CDT
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Caribbean monk seals, the sea dwellers first discovered during Columbus’s second voyage in 1494, are officially extinct—the only seal to vanish because of human causes, MSNBC reports. “Humans left the Caribbean monk seal population unsustainable after overhunting them,” a biologist explained. The seal, a native of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, hadn’t been spotted for 50 years.
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