Egg parasitoids of citrus weevils in Guadeloupe.
To determine parasitism and mortality factors affecting citrus weevils in Guadeloupe an exploratory trip to the island was taken in the summer of 2006. Guadeloupe was surveyed for egg parasitoids and other natural enemies with the intent of augmenting the parasitoid species that have already been imported and released...

Windstar Offers Holiday Cruises.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-31 July 2008-Windstar Offers Holiday Cruises(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Windstar stated that its provides the perfect winter holiday vacation in an elegant and relaxed atmosphere in the Caribbean or Costa Rica to rejoice with travel companions. Wind Spirit said that its...

Windstar Cruises Underway with Artist Jody Hewgill.
TRAVEL AND LEISURE CLOSE-UP-21 August 2008-Windstar Cruises Underway with Artist Jody Hewgill(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Windstar Cruises, which operates a three-ship fleet of luxury yachts that explore hidden harbors and secluded coves, offers guests an opportunity to travel with artist Jody Hewgill on a Barbados roundtrip...

Dominica.
When Hollywood wanted to film the Pirates of the Caribbean they yachted and limoed Johnny Depp to the 'unspoiled' Eastern Caribbean island of Dominica to do his thing. Reportedly there was no place fancy enough on the island for Depp and his fellow stars to hang their hats so...

Signs of dissent; Maryse Conde and postcolonial criticism.
9780813927152 Signs of dissent; Maryse Conde and postcolonial criticism. Fulton, Dawn. U. of Virginia Press 2008 185 pages $20.00 Paperback New world studies PQ3949 Conde (emerita French and Romance...

Decolonizing trauma studies: a response.
Andre Schwarz-Bart's slim novel A Woman Named Solitude (La mulatresse Solitude, 1972) tells an epic tale of trans-Atlantic slavery with implications for contemporary trauma studies. Over the course of Solitude, the descendants of a pastoral African landscape depicted at the novel's opening become diasporic subjects in the Caribbean-still tilling...

Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas.
Curing the Colonizers: Hydrotherapy, Climatology, and French Colonial Spas, by Eric T. Jennings. Durham, Duke University Press, 2006. xi, 271 pp. $74.95 US (cloth), $21.95 US (paper). Studying the history of spas has obvious appeal--one imagines research junkets to far off exotic locales. In the case of...

Floristic richness and affinities in the West Indies.
Introduction The West Indies are an archipelago with more than one thousand islands that separate the Atlantic Ocean from the Caribbean Sea and cover a distance of 2,700 km from Barbados to the most western tip of Cuba (Howard, 1973). They are not in contact with the...

Maryse Conde. Victoire, les saveurs et les mots.
Maryse Conde. Victoire, les saveurs et les mots. Paris. Mercure de France. 2006. 255 pages. 16.50 [euro]. ISBN 2-7152-2570-9 ANY BOOK Maryse Conde publishes now causes reverberations throughout the vast expanse of her work. It darkens the silhouettes of her preoccupations and familial fears. Conde's "recit" about...

Aircraft News - Latin America / Caribbean.
Jun 25, 2007 Aerolineas Argentinas, Airbus, Boeing Aerolineas Argentinas is taking delivery of the second of seven Boeing 737-500s this month. Remaining aircraft will arrive in July, September, October (two) and November. The carrier said it also will take an Airbus A310 and A340...