Cricket at Caribbean? Book now!
Byline: Vishwas Gautam If you are planning to watch World Cup 2007 live, forget tickets, book a hotel room now. It is time to plan for the biggest festival of 'em all World Cup Cricket 2007. But if you are planning to visit the Caribbean...

Cricket at Caribbean? Book now!
Byline: Vishwas Gautam If you are planning to watch World Cup 2007 live, forget tickets, book a hotel room now. It is time to plan for the biggest festival of ' em all - World Cup Cricket 2007. But if you are planning to visit...

Early warning: United States to deploy 32 more buoys for sensing tsunamis.
On Jan. 14, the Bush administration announced a $37.5 million program to expand the nation's tsunami-warning capabilities. The 2-year plan includes placing tsunami-detecting buoys in the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea as well staffing around the clock the existing tsunami-warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii. The plan comes on...

Tracking fish to save them: the Reef fish connectivity and conservation initiative.
For decades, the Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus) was one of the most sought-after fish species in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, from the Bahamas to Central America. These large, delicious fish live among coral reefs and have a breeding behavior that makes them especially vulnerable. They come together...

"Joe'i Korsou?" (who is the true Curacaoan?): a musical dialogue on identity in twentieth-century Curacao.
Meaning is what gives us a sense of our own identity, of who we are and with whom we 'belong'--so it is tied up with questions of how culture is used to mark out and maintain identity within and difference between groups. --Stuart Hall (1997, 3) ...

Feni's fame abroad gives it lead over other drinks.
Byline: M Padmakshan MUMBAI: Tourists, who are increasing in number as India rapidly ascends the global economic scale, are demanding authentic Indian spirits. When in Mexico they ask for Tequila, in Jamaica it's the ubiquitous rum, scotch whisky in Britain, bourbon in America, vodka when in Russia,...

Aquacultural importance of the integumental pore pattern in postlarval whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Decapoda: Penaeidae).
Abstract: The analysis of integumental pore pattern has identified two intraspecific groups of postlarval shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei (Boone, 1931), a species of which three to five natural populations or groups are expected to be found from Mexico to Peru. Natural distribution and man-made redistributions have not been typified on...

Status of Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) in Cuba.
Abstract: Current understanding of Cuban ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonoidea) is analysed. A new Subfamily (Tersilochinae) including 13 genera and two species are first reports for Cuba. In contrast with Braconidae, the sister group, the ichneumonids are poorly known because of the lack of local taxonomists and bacause nets, rather than...

Selected Canadian military export contracts or deliveries reported during 2005.
Selected Canadian military export contracts or deliveries reported during 2005 Overseas contracts during 2005 (non-US) Military product Contract Supplier Location or service value Recipient Aktelux Mississauga, Hawk combat Not Malaysia ON aircraft engine reported monitor upgrade ** Allen-Vanguard Ottawa, ON Bomb team $4.3 Iraq Corp. vehicles ** million Atlantis...

Geographic range expansion of Boreioglycaspis melaleucae (Hemiptera: Psyllidae) to Puerto Rico.
The Australian tree Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav) S.T. Blake (Myrtaceae) was introduced into South Florida (U.S.) by horticulturists during the late 1800s (Dray 2003). Nearly 100 years later, M. quinquenervia was widely recognized as a pernicious invader of wetland systems in the Florida Everglades (Browder & Schroeder 1981; Woodall 1981,...