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Darren Bravo hits career-best 79 as West Indies lose 3rd ODI

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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (WICB) -- Three West Indies players turned in career-best performances on Sunday but the Windies still went under to Sri Lanka by 26 runs in the third and final ERI One-Day International at the Sinhalese Sports Club.

Commentary: Conclusions of the 56th OECS gathering in Grenada: what was achieved?

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The retreat was excellent. Looking at the photographs of our OECS leaders, the Commonwealth of Dominica Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit was really in retreat mood. Prime Minister Denzil Douglas listened attentively...

Commentary: Phoenix Rising: Rising from the ashes like the Phoenix

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According to Wikipedia, a Phoenix is a mythical bird that is a fire spirit with a colourful plumage and a tail of gold and scarlet (or purple, blue and green according to some legends). It has a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle...

Montserrat St Patrick's Festival 2011 - a lively and entertaining cultural celebration

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BRADES, Montserrat (GUI) -- A “lively and entertaining cultural celebration” is how Montserrat’s minister of education and chairman of the St Patrick’s Week Committee, Colin Riley described this year’s event.

Commentary: Dame Olga Lopes-Seale (Aunty Olga) passes at 92 in Barbados

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Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, better known as Aunty Olga, who has done charitable work for more than six and a half decades in Guyana and Barbados died on Thursday at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Bridgetown, Barbados. She was 92.

Curacao goes crazy for carnival!

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WILLEMSTAD, Curacao -- Get ready to dance the night away in Curacao, the world’s newest country, which is celebrating its biggest annual party, Carnival, now through March 8.  Secure a new country stamp in your passport and hop a flight...

Barbados deepening south-south connections

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (BGIS) -- The government of Barbados is exploring areas of south-south cooperation with Latin American neighbours in an effort to promote better social conditions for people living in this part of the hemisphere.

BBC team arrives in Guyana

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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA) -- Tales of the fabled El Dorado -- the City of Gold -- have for centuries dazzled explorers around the world, assuring Guyana, (then Guiana) of being engraved in the pages of history.

New social initiative in Nicaragua will benefit 20,000 poor families

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WASHINGTON, USA -- The World Bank Board of Directors approved a new social initiative on Friday that will benefit 20,000 Nicaraguan families living in extreme poverty.  The loan is worth USdollarsignr19.5 million.

Bahamas police report decrease in some serious crimes

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NASSAU, Bahamas -- Serious crime numbers in The Bahamas are down in categories such as armed robbery, and there is “noticeable trending downward in shootings, stolen vehicles and stabbings” since the launch of Operation Rapid Strike.

Video claims US Internet scheme to undermine Cuban government

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MIAMI, USA (MCT) -- Cuban bloggers like Yoani Sanchez and young exiles who reach out to their counterparts on the island are part of a covert US campaign to undermine the Castro government, according to a secret Cuban video.

More revelations at inquiry into 1990 coup attempt in Trinidad

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- There has been a number of revelations during the Commission of Enquiry that is now underway in connection with the 1990 attempted coup in Trinidad and Tobago.

Trinidad PM takes blame for appointment of security agency head

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad -- Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Kamla Persad Bissessar has taken the blame for the appointment of 31-year-old Reshmi Ramnarine as director of the Strategic Services Agency (SSA).

Barbados to amend Income Tax Act

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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados -- Barbados will amend its Income Tax Act to fully implement its national policy on transparency and demonstrate its commitment to the G20-endorsed OECD standard on the exchange of information for tax purposes.

Fear that extradition would topple the Jamaican government, says former police commissioner

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KINGSTON, Jamaica -- Former Jamaican police commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, testified at the Commission of Enquiry into the extradition of accused drug and gun runner Christopher "Dudus" Coke...