John Rossetti, 89.
WORCESTER John Rossetti, 89, of Worcester, passed away Tuesday, May 27th 2008 in St. Vincent Hospital after a brief illness. His former wife, Carmella (Catullo) Rossetti, passed away in 1981. He is survived by his devoted children: Joanne Generelli and her husband Edward, and John F. Rossetti,...

ACHIEVEMENTS.
Byline: The Register-Guard Creswell boy, 9, honored Ralyn Case, a 9-year-old student at both Creslane Elementary and Creswell Middle schools, has been named the 2006-07 Oregon recipient of the National Association of Gifted Children's annual scholarship. He will receive a $500 savings bond...

Biology and natural history of Anastrepha interrupta (Diptera: Tephritidae).
Florida's best known member of the genus Anastrepha is an introduced pest, the Caribbean fruit fly, A. suspensa (Loew). However, Florida is also home to other innocuous species, including Anastrepha interrupta Stone. The latter was first reported as an undescribed "species E" collected during an early fruit fly survey...

Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86.
* Eugenia Charles, former prime minister of the Caribbean island of Dominica, died last month, age 86. In the sun/rain/sun of the lesser Antilles, history can seem as if it's passing by: "There the past is an infinite Sunday," as Derek Walcott put it. History visited big-time in 1979...

Russia out, RP, 10 others remain in FATF blacklist.
PARIS (AP) The OECD money laundering task force decided on Friday to remove Russia from its black-list because of significant reforms, the organization said. The task force also removed Dominica, Niue and the Marshall Islands from the black- list of non-cooperative countries and territories in the fight...

Business Digest.
Byline: The Register-Guard CITY/REGION Workshop describes how bankers operate Find out how bankers make lending decisions at a daylong workshop Wednesday sponsored by Oregon State University's Austin Family Business Program. The event, featuring Roger Busse, senior vice president of credit risk assessment for...

Caribbean investment conference to focus on development, marketing.
Puerto Rico--Selling surf, sand and sunshine might seem easy in television ads, but it takes a sustained effort behind the scenes to develop a tourism infrastructure to increase market share. And matching investors with opportunities is what the upcoming 6th Annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference, which is...

Zouk: World Music in the West Indies.
Jocelyne Guilbault's Zouk: World Music in the West Indies is the first book in English to give an ethnographic treatment of zouk, a dance music popular in Creole-speaking Caribbean. The book focuses on the various local and international issues raised by the performance and commercialization of zouk. Identifying zouk...

Sailing the Caribbean.
THEY BLEND THE ROMANCE OF a private yacht with the space and luxuries of a cruise ship. Four new masted cruise ships are plying the clear, warm waters of the Caribbean, paying visits to lightly inhabited ports of call, remote harbors, and quiet islands inaccessible to larger ships. ...

The diaspora strikes back; Caribeno tales of learning and turning.
9780415952613 The diaspora strikes back; Caribeno tales of learning and turning. Flores, Juan. Routledge 2008 237 pages $29.95 Paperback Cultural spaces series JV7382 Flores (New York U.) looks at...