Travel Business News - Africa / Middle East.
Oct 13, 2008 African laureate traveling exhibition, Olaudah Equiano, has arrived on the island of Montserrat. The exhibition opened Oct. 1 and will remain on display at the National Trust until the end of the year. Considered to be one of the more famous residents of Montserrat,...

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...

Economía única en el 2015: pasaporte común caribeño.
La integración caribeña avanza paso a paso y después de probarse algunos mecanismos de integración, este proceso está listo para enfretar los principales desafíos: la voluntad política de sus gobernantes para encauzar los cambios legislativos que permitan alcanzar la meta de la Economía Única en el 2015. ...

A selection of February's other society events.
For details, please contact the Events Office on 020 7591 3100 2 February, 7.30pm Volcanic Montserrat (LECTURE LEICESTER) David Edwards recounts his experiences of eruption, evacuation and disruption on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1995, after arriving to participate in a biodiversity...

Welcome to Kim Collins country.
The islands of St Kitts & Nevis and Dominica, with their 90% African-descendant population, are known as the 'sleepiest places on earth'. They have just been celebrating their 20th and 25th independence anniversaries. Clayton Goodwin reports. ********** Through just one athlete--Kim Collins, the World and...

Dimethaid announces Caribbean distribution agreement with A.S. Bryden & Sons (Barbados) Ltd. for PENNSAID(R) Topical Solution.
- Update on European Union Mutual Recognition Procedure - TORONTO, July 4 /PRNewswire/ - Dimethaid Research Inc. (TSE: DMX) announced today that Dimethaid International Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary based in Barbados, has signed a distribution agreement with A.S. Bryden & Sons (Barbados) Ltd. for...

GOING SOLO.
Freelancing is not for the fainthearted, but it can be an exhilarating way of life. Doing it in the Caribbean doesn't hurt, either. I was on the Caribbean island of Montserrat a couple of years ago, covering life after the volcano and sniffing around for other interesting...

FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN.
FIRE FROM THE MOUNTAIN by Polly Pattullo (Constable, pb, pp217 9.99 [pounds sterling]) Montserrat hit the world's headlines for a few weeks in the summer of 1997 when a volcano in the Soufriere Hills spat scalding rocks and gases across the small Caribbean island killing 19 people....

The age of exploration: the Hollywood travelogue.
In popular memory, the classical Hollywood travelogue is a photo album excursion through safely exotic ports of call where undulating dancers in native costume grinned and cringed before overfed, guffawing tourists. A serviceable short subject wedged between Merrie Melody and 'A' picture in the 1930s and 1940s, it blended static...

Gente.
EL PRESIDENTE "ESPIA" Aleksander Kwasniewski, presidente de Polonia, presentó en el tribunal provincial de Varsovia una demanda contra dos periodistas, por haber insinuado que mantuvo contactos con un espía de Moscú. La demanda la interpuso como "persona privada, para defender su buen nombre". Kwasniewski ha exigido de los dos...