Travel Business News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Apr 21, 2008 Cancun Cancun launched a new marketing and promotional campaign, with the slogan " Cancun deeply unique," to position itself as a fully integrated tourist destination where sun and beaches are not the only attractions, but culture, adventure, nature, meetings and conventions, gastronomy...

EAST COUNTY NEIGHBORS.
Two area students who participated in the Assabet Valley Mastersingers Apprentice Singers Program have been named AVM scholarship award recipients for 2007. Alissa Burbine of Boylston and Daniel Gonzalez of Marlboro have both sung in each of the three AVM concerts this season and were faithful in attending rehearsals,...

Dolphin Swim Centers Under Fire.
MEXICO -- Commercial swim-with-dolphins parks are proliferating at an alarming rate. Mexico, Venezuela and several Caribbean countries -- including Anguilla, Tortola, Jamaica, Bermuda and Antigua -- are capturing young bottlenose dolphins by the dozens for these programs. In December 2000, the owners of the Fins Dolphin Learning...

Treaties of Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters involve U.S.
Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Treaties (MLATs) are a relatively recent and valuable development. These bilateral agreements seek to improve the effectiveness of international judicial assistance and to regularize and facilitate criminal law enforcement procedures in all the member states. Each country designates a Central Authority, generally the...

Awards.
Benchmark Hospitality named Hal Powell, director of sales and marketing for Landsdowne Resort in Leesburg, Va., the director of sales and marketing of the year. From left are Burt Cabanas, chairman and c.e.o. of Benchmark; Powell; and Jack Schmidt, v.p. of sales and marketing for Benchmark. The company also...

Book notes.
Allison, Lon, and Mark Anderson. Going Public with the Gospel: Reviving Evangelistic Proclamation. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003. Pp. 180. Paperback $13. Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Art on the Jesuit Missions in Asia and Latin America, 1542-1773. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 310. Paperback...

Latin American Catholicism.
CARIBBEAN In comparison to North America's almost 20 million square kilometers, the 24 countries or territories of the Caribbean cover only a little more than 200,000 square kilometers. Population density is much higher, with nearly 161 people per square kilometer in the Caribbean, compared to 16 in...

The things Kidds do.
The legends surrounding Captain Kidd have inspired numerous treasure hunts. But, as Erling Ho reports, the most tantalising myth could be that the infamous pirate escaped the gallows and started his life again. SITTING ON THE PORCH of his spacious house on Blackbeard's Hill. St Thomas. overlooking...

ANGUILLA'S GLORIOUS STRUGGLE FOR DEPENDENCE.
AS AUSTRALIANS ponder whether or not to become a republic, perhaps it is worth noting the example of a Caribbean island which--thirty years ago--went to "war" for the right to remain a colony. It was a novel conflict, with a script from Gilbert and Sullivan or The Mouse that...

Can iguanas ride rafts for 200 miles?
In a flash of spectacular luck, finding just the right lizard in the right hurricane, a researcher has provided the best evidence yet of a group of land animals traveling over water to a new home. At least 15 green iguanas appeared on the Caribbean island of Anguilla several...