Tag Archives : Caribbean

Google is seeking partnerships with computer manufacturers and telecom operators in Latin America. The company wants to take what he sees as “huge” growth opportunity in leading Internet companies in the region, told Reuters the company’s executive director for the region, Alexandre Hohagen. With Internet penetration rates still relatively [...]

There are only few billionaires in this world who choose to show off their riches. Naturally if you happen to 212th richest man on the planet and want the world to know then you would probably do what Sir Richard Branson did recently. He invited Oprah Winfrey Show to his Necker Island and showed off his paradise, his weird extravagant toys like underwater [...]

The US biofuels industry is expensive. Making corn fuel is costly. The industry currently enjoys a ‘45 cent tax credit for every gallon of ethanol produced.’ That’s $3 billion in tax credits in a year. Import tariffs on sugar-based ethanol from Brazil and the Caribbean, logically higher so as to eliminate competition for the domestically manufactured [...]

So here exactly do you go first to strengthen your bond of love after you have just said ‘I do’? That is the big question that most couples are eagerly looking to answer and with the planet today connected like never before, there are some stunning locations, countries and exotic places that will give you a dream trip you will cherish for a lifetime. [...]

The Caribbean is not the only territory contaminated with chlordecone, a highly persistent pollutant and suspected carcinogen, used as a pesticide in the banana plantations in Guadeloupe and Martinique between 1981 and 1993. According to reports, some 1,600 tons of chlordecone were produced in the United States between 1958 and 1976. About 200 more [...]

While the Influenza A (H1N1) virus, formerly known as swine flu, is the disease that is currently shaking the world in paranoia, even panic, there is an even far worse disease that is devastating some regions of the earth – dengue fever. Had dengue cases been more reported, it could have been labeled a pandemic long before swine flu came into the [...]