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Christopher Pearson had big credentials. He was a Mashantucket Pequot Indian, grandson of the woman credited with holding the tribe together through its leanest period.

Human Rights Watch says conditions in Cuba have not improved under Raul Castro and in some ways are worse than they had been when his brother Fidel was president.

Tropical Storm Ida uprooted trees, knocked down power lines and forced the evacuation of 300 people on Nicaragua's Corn Island after forming Wednesday and quickly gaining strength in the southwestern Caribbean.

We expect that Deputy Commissioner of Police Owen Ellington was reflecting the views of his colleagues in the leadership of the constabulary with his complaint on Wednesday about the failure of the Jamaican Government promulgate a plea-bargaining law... Read More... Freeing the Jamaican spirit Our history in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean is ...

O ur history in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean is peculiar. When the majority of our ancestors lived in Africa just before the rape of that continent, the tribal system was well established.

Yuengling Draft presents a two-day party to celebrate the one-year anniversary of Tampa landmark, Whiskey Joe's Bar & Grill.

The congregation of Westview United Methodist Church would like to take this opportunity to thank the following businesses.

The fourth annual DanceAfrica weekend features two performances from the Dallas Black Dance Theatre with guest performers Giwayen Mata and Chicago's Muntu Dance Theatre.

Barack Obama can now add another prestigious title to his already impressive resume: Nobel Laureate .

Aid / Disasters Former President Jimmy Carter is traveling to Haiti and the Dominican Republic in hopes of encouraging the country "leaders to forge a pact to rid the island of Hispaniola of malaria," the Associated Press/Los Angeles Times reports.

A A Perfectly Paris A magical city known as the - City of Love' and the - City of Lights', Paris is full of amazing architecture, world-class art, museums, gardens and parks.

The story of Christopher Columbus and the people he encountered when he arrived in the Caribbean has yet to be truthfully conveyed in books used by elementary school students, a new University of Florida study finds.

While the basis of Professor Igor Panarina s reasons for the upcoming US collapse, and I dare say that of all of N. America, are correct, his predictions of the new political reality are simplistic at best and widely in correct at worst, not taking into account the actual demographic, historic and political situation on the sites.

Combining literary pretensions with rock music can be tricky. Sometimes you get Leonard Cohen and everybody's happya 'or at least content in their woe-tinged introspection.

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The voice of Dr. Luther Castillo, who is considered Public Enemy No. 1 by the Honduran coup government, is heard across Cuba every night.

The ancient art form of belly dancing has captivated hundreds of women in Fairbanks, and the circle of midriff-bearing, colorfully adorned women is growing by the day.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is inching closer to completing a gambling deal with the state that would allow it to keep the slot machines and card games at its Hard Rock casinos in return for $150 million in annual payments.

There is no universally accepted definition of democracy, only principles to which nations subscribe, these being government by elected representatives, basic human rights, equality of opportunity and, above all, the rule of law.

U.S. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Gayle Kostyack performs an oral examination on a patient in April aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.