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Plea for mourners to attend funeral for RAF ‘pilot of the Caribbean’

A desperate search is under way to find mourners to attend the funeral of one of the Second World War’s last black “Pilots of the Caribbean”.

Evening Standard

US states, Caribbean nations back Mexico's appeal in arms lawsuit

Sixteen U.S. states and a handful of Caribbean governments on Tuesday expressed support for Mexico's appeal in a civil lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers.

Reuters

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Latin finance ministers meet in Panama under shadow of US bank crisis

Panama City (AFP) - Top financial officials from Latin American and Caribbean countries are meeting Saturday in an annual conclave of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), after a week overshadowed by the banking crisis in the United States and Europe.

AFP

Illicit guns and drugs are a problem in the Caribbean. This legislation is offering help

U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Tim Kaine of Virginia are putting their weight behind an initiative to reduce illicit arms trafficking and strengthen security and stability in the Caribbean basin, where an uptick in guns and migration trafficking are endangering small island communities and raising national security concerns…

Miami Herald

Aruba launches competition for ‘easiest job in world’ - weather person to showcase its sun and blue skies

Aruba experiences more sunny days than any other Caribbean island

The Independent UK

Trinidad and Tobago is failing children locked in Syrian camps – it must bring them home

During Covid, the Caribbean republic shut its borders, stranding citizens overseas; now it has left children vulnerable to illness, death and IS recruitment

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March 10-16, 2023

The Independent UK

BBC journalist quits corporation to join fight for Caribbean slavery reparations

BBC journalist Laura Trevelyan has quit her job to join the Caribbean's fight for slavery reparations a month after her family announced a £100,000 payment in return for their slave-owning past

Daily Mirror

Royal Caribbean's Huge Nassau Plan Faces a Major Hurdle

The cruise line plans to build a Beach Club on Paradise Island, but a big rival has raised concerns that could derail those plans.

The Street

Laura Trevelyan quits BBC to campaign for reparative justice for Caribbean

Decision comes after Trevelyan family apologises for ownership of more than 1,000 enslaved African people

The Guardian - UK

Brit grandad drowns in horror snorkelling accident on Caribbean holiday

Former newspaper editor, Gareth Weekes, 77, was with his wife on a trip of a lifetime, sailing off the coast of St Vincent and the Grenadines, when he ran into trouble while in the water and tragically died

Daily Mirror

Patrick Reusse: World Baseball Classic swings mightily — and it’s a big miss

The Twins' Dustin Morse was again serving as the press officer for the team titled "Netherlands'' in the World Baseball Classic. This is a euphemism for the Lesser Antilles islands in the Caribbean that are still associated with the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Tribune News Service

Coming soon to Florida beaches: Massive, messy and maybe record mounds of seaweed

MIAMI — A giant blob of seaweed, spanning 5,000 miles and weighing an estimated 6.1 million tons, threatens to blanket Florida beaches and Caribbean islands with smelly piles of decaying brown goop.

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The Independent UK

AP Week in Pictures: Latin America and Caribbean

March 3-9, 2023

Miami Herald

US defends deportations to Haiti before Inter-American Commission on Human Rights

Biden administration officials Thursday defended the government’s immigration policies toward Haitian migrants, including the deportation and repatriation of individuals back to the volatile Caribbean nation despite its spiraling violence and deepening humanitarian crisis.

The Street

Royal Caribbean's Big News Gives It an Edge Over Carnival, Other Rivals

The cruise line is moving forward with a project that will give it something unique that Carnival, MSC, and even Disney can't offer.

Miami Herald

Digicel chief says cellphone company is struggling in Haiti but not suffering like population

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The armored SUV makes its way up Avenue John Paul II in Haiti’s teeming capital when Denis O’Brien, the Irish billionaire who built the largest cellphone company here and controls the lion’s share of the Caribbean mobile phone market, leans forward and peers out of the passenger…

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The Independent UK

UK must pay reparation to Caribbean countries for ‘hideous’ slavery, say MPs

Labour MP Clive Lewis likened the UK’s relationship with its former Caribbean colonies to an abusive one.

The Guardian - UK

Clive Lewis calls for UK to negotiate Caribbean slavery reparations

Labour MP says Rishi Sunak should talk to region’s leaders after Trevelyan family announcements

Daily Mirror

UK must pay reparations to ex-Caribbean colonies for 400 years of 'hideous abuse', MPs say

Labour's Clive Lewis urged the government to follow the example of the wealthy Trevelyon family who apologised for their ancestor's exploitation in Grenada by pledging to fund community projects, as MPs warned failure to do so was akin to 'collusion'

Daily Mirror

Mum believes daughter who vanished from boyfriend's boat in Caribbean is dead

Brenda Street says she feels she should grieve for former air hostess daughter Sarm Heslop who has been missing for two years and says her heart is broken

The Independent UK

Most expensive Caribbean estate ever goes on sale for $200m

Estate is made up of nine buildings and 13 bedrooms

The Independent UK

Caribbean sees jump in visitors since pandemic began

Officials say tourists flocked to the Caribbean last year in numbers not seen since the pandemic began, with the Dutch Caribbean and U.S. territories surpassing even pre-pandemic visitor arrivals

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh couple take legal action against TUI after dream cruise ends in disaster

The couple were among those to be sent home early from the Caribbean cruise in January when the Marella Discovery 2 ship was hit with what were described as “technical issues” which affected the food and drink service.

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