Rum's spirited history in the Caribbean

Sugar-cane has been harvested in the Caribbean for four centuries.

Study: Healthy eating can cost less

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Parents look for best ways to raise bilingual kids

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PR to host renewable energy forum
Issued: May 20, 2012
Puerto Rico will host the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum 2012 next Octobe ...

Baby crabs invade Cayman Islands
Issued: May 20, 2012
Hundreds of thousands of red baby crabs are invading the Cayman Islands in ...

Fear versus frustration in DR vote
Issued: May 20, 2012
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — A former president whose single term en ...

Pierluisi pushes PR voting in Florida
Issued: May 19, 2012
Resident Commissioner Pedro Pierluisi was in Orlando on Friday urging Puert ...

‘Statehood’ to top plebiscite ballot
Issued: May 19, 2012
The State Elections Commission has set the ballot positions for the status referendum in November.

Test oil well off Cuba comes up dry
Issued: May 19, 2012
HAVANA — An exploratory oil well drilled off the coast of Cuba has proved a failure and will be capped and abandoned, a spokesman for Spanis ...

PR unemployment rate dips below 15%
Issued: May 19, 2012
Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate dipped to 14.8 percent last month, marking its first time below the 15 percent mark in nearly three years, U ...

A.M. Best lower Cosvi’s ratings
Issued: May 19, 2012
A.M. Best Co. has downgraded its ratings on Cooperativa de Seguros de Vida (Cosvi).

New chief at National Hurricane Center
Issued: May 18, 2012
MIAMI — Richard Knabb, the tropical weather expert at The Weather Channel, will be the next chief of the U.S. government’s hurricane forecas ...

Study finds coffee drinkers live longer
Issued: May 18, 2012
MILWAUKEE — One of life’s simple pleasures just got a little sweeter. After years of waffling research on coffee and health, even some fear ...

US may bundle TARP stakes to unload
Issued: May 18, 2012
The U.S. Treasury Department could pool stakes in Popular Inc and other banks that took bailouts under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Bl ...

O’Neill set to face NPP directorate
Issued: May 18, 2012
Guaynabo Mayor Héctor O’Neill has scrapped a planned trip to the Dominican Republic to stay at home to face the New Progressive Party direct ...

US senator blasts Diageo-USVI deal
Issued: May 18, 2012
U.S. Sen. Roberto Menéndez (D-N.J.) took aim from Capitol Hill this week at the Diageo deal that sparked the rum war between Puerto Rico and ...

Analyst predicts Cofinas downgrade
Issued: May 18, 2012
Puerto Rico’s sales-tax backed municipal bonds appear headed for a downgrade in the coming weeks, according to a Wells Fargo analyst.

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Party leaders refuse to budge on debt positions
Issued: May 20, 2012
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats aren't budging when it comes to their already hardened positions on spending cuts versus tax incr ...

America expands once again — digitally, this time
Issued: May 20, 2012
NEW YORK — The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving ...

I'll Have Another wins Preakness, Triple try next
Issued: May 19, 2012
BALTIMORE — I'll Have Another did just that, winning another Triple Crown race with even more flash and dash than he did in the Kentucky ...

First tropical storm of the season forms off SC
Issued: May 19, 2012
RALEIGH, N.C. — The first tropical storm of the season formed Saturday off the coast of South Carolina with top winds of 45 mph (75 kph), bu ...

Men accused of plotting attacks around NATO summit
Issued: May 19, 2012
CHICAGO — Three activists who travelled to Chicago for a NATO summit were accused Saturday of manufacturing Molotov cocktails in a plot to a ...

Political vulnerabilities in Rubio's past
Issued: May 19, 2012
MIAMI — For freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a rising GOP figure seen as a possible Mitt Romney running mate, there are questions about whether po ...

Obama: More teeth needed for Wall Street reforms
Issued: May 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need to finally put in place banking rules he sign ...

Is GOP trying to sabotage economy to hurt Obama?
Issued: May 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? ...

SpaceX rocket launch aborted in last half-second
Issued: May 19, 2012
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A new private supply ship for the International Space Station remained stuck on the ground Saturday after rocket engi ...

Clemens lawyer attacks key piece of evidence
Issued: May 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — Attacking key prosecution evidence, Roger Clemens' lawyer went through the items in a Miller Lite beer can one at a time an ...

Facebook fails to sizzle in public debut
Issued: May 18, 2012
NEW YORK — It was barely a “like” and definitely not a “love” from Facebook investors as the online social network’s stock failed to live up ...

Q&A on blockbuster Facebook IPO
Issued: May 18, 2012
NEW YORK — Taking a company public isn't as simple as collecting Facebook friends.

Romney points to restored bridge as Obama failure
Issued: May 18, 2012
HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. — Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney on Friday criticized a restored 19th century bridge as another "Bri ...

Facebook stock up slightly in public debut
Issued: May 18, 2012
NEW YORK — Facebook is trading below its opening price in its debut on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

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Powerful quake kills at least 4 in northern Italy
Issued: May 20, 2012
SANT'AGOSTINO DI FERRARA, Italy — One of the strongest earthquakes to shake northern Italy rattled the region around Bologna early Sunda ...

Obama sees 'emerging consensus' on economic fix
Issued: May 19, 2012
CAMP DAVID, Md. — Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Barack Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturd ...

Will Smith slaps journalist who tries to kiss him
Issued: May 19, 2012
MOSCOW — Hollywood star Will Smith slapped a male television reporter who he said tried to kiss him on the lips as he walked down the red ca ...

Moody’s downgrades 16 Spanish banks
Issued: May 19, 2012
Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded the ratings of 16 Spanish banks by one to three notches because of the country’s worsening financia ...

Argentina: Black market grows with currency
Issued: May 19, 2012
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — The man in the brown suit doesn't need to speak above a whisper to sell his goods along a busy street in the A ...

Beijing rejects US report on Chinese military
Issued: May 19, 2012
BEIJING — China has rejected an annual Pentagon report that assesses Beijing's expanding military power.

Echoes of Eurozone crisis at NATO meeting
Issued: May 19, 2012
WASHINGTON — The NATO meeting in Chicago this weekend is a chance for alliance leaders to proclaim solidarity and promise success. But the g ...

Spain may have to revise its 2011 budget deficit
Issued: May 18, 2012
MADRID — The Spanish government says it may have to revise its 2011 budget deficit upwards for a second time after spending by regional gove ...

Greek politics, Spain banks test eurozone survival
Issued: May 18, 2012
MADRID — Chaos in Greek politics and Spanish banking combined this week to underscore just how fragile Europe's economy remains after an ...

Cubans denied US visas have record of engagement
Issued: May 18, 2012
HAVANA — The U.S. State Department has given Raul Castro's daughter a visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco, but it als ...

Obama touts $3B in pledges to help feed Africa
Issued: May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Friday said the United States has a "moral imperative" to lead the fight against hunger and ...

Pope praises US efforts to welcome immigrants
Issued: May 18, 2012
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has praised the "great generosity" of American Catholics in welcoming new immigrants and backed t ...

US eases economic sanctions to reward Myanmar
Issued: May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a new chapter in U.S. relations with Myanmar, easing an investment ban and naming t ...

Pentagon sees Chinese military expanding its reach
Issued: May 18, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is telling Congress that China's increasingly sophisticated military is pursuing "new historic missions&q ...

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