Monday, June 19, 2006

Caribbean headlines (aside from Trinidad and Tobago’s performance at the World Cup)

-Nearly 100 protestors in Miami demonstrate against U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba.

-Officials in the Bahamas are quarantining prison inmates in order to avoid a widespread outbreak of malaria.

-Burst of violence last week kills 12 people around Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

-Two-month-old Caribbean anthem seen as unpopular and “rejected” by musicians.

-Approval for Jamaican PM Portia Simpson Miller has slipped as the ruling party is divided over candidates for parliamentary elections.

-Barbados and France negotiate over boundary placement.

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