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Months of Darkness for a Glimmer of Hope

By LEE SNYDER From Huffington Post The motto of the United States is E Pluribus Unum – out of many one. At no time is this message of unity more important than during times of crisis. The U.S., like many…

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USDA provides more than $10 Million to help Caribbean area farmers

By Senora Scott, KIDY From My Fox Zone SAN JUAN, P.R – From the USDA: “November 21, 2017 – USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is providing $10.9 million in technical and financial assistance to help farmers in Puerto Rico and the…

The US Navy’s largest floating hospital docked in Puerto Rico

By Tim Rogers, Fusion From Business Insider Puerto Rico is still digging out of the worst of Hurricane Maria’s devastation. Grid power has been restored to 56 of 69 hospitals, while the others are using generators. Two hospitals remain entirely…

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Mysterious rock art uncovered in caves on uninhabited Caribbean island

By James Rogers From Fox News Experts have uncovered a vast array of mysterious pre-Columbian rock art in the caves of a remote uninhabited Caribbean island. Archaeologists explored around 70 cave systems on Puerto Rico’s Mona island. The thousands of…

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Caribbean People’s Assembly denounces new ‘Imperialist Remilitarization’

From teleSUR The assembly was dedicated to the memory and legacy of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and recently deceased Dominican activist Jesus Adon. Some 120 international delegates from 19 countries closed the 7th Assembly of the Caribbean People Sunday, which…

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Deep into the Eye of the Hurricane in the Caribbean

By Angel Rivera-Agosto From United Church of Christ In the Caribbean people look up and see God in the winds. They sense God’s overwhelming presence in the nature that shelters them, and in its contours and limitations, becomes a dominant…

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Caribbean rum producers step up with hurricane relief donation

BY BOB CURLEY From Chilled Hurricanes Irma and Maria carved a path of destruction across the northern Caribbean, and the region’s legendary rum companies were not spared. On Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, the Callwood Distillery, which has been…

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Challenges to Seafarers’ welfare in Caribbean ports

By Dr. Michael Skaggs Even as the Caribbean islands and Florida were recovering from Hurricane Irma this summer, Maria came roaring through the region. With numerous fatalities and crippling damage to island infrastructure, the hurricane season of 2017 – which has…

A look at four storms from one brutal hurricane season

By AJ Willingham, From CNN This hurricane season has battered the Atlantic and Caribbean with several brutal storms. Though their fury has passed, there are hundreds of thousands of people still feeling the effects. Here’s a look at how Hurricanes…

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Atlantic may bear more hurricanes that could threaten US, Caribbean through November

By Alex Sosnowski, From Accuweather Conditions will remain favorable for tropical storms and hurricanes to form over the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico for several more weeks. Including Ophelia, there have been 15 tropical storms, nine hurricanes and five…