Designer Noreen Phillips’ – Big Day

This time, the wedding gown is going to be on Caribbean-born designer Noreen Phillips. The internationally renowned, Vincentian-born dressmaker, who runs Noreen Phillips Couturière in St. John’s, Antigua, is to marry English businessman and financier Gerald Staines in a private …

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Cricket, Calypso & Rum Time!

Ishani Duttagupta & Raja Awasthi
Times News Network Saturday, January 06, 2007

Forget the Swiss Alps and exotic Thai beaches. The next holiday season belongs to the Caribbean. A heady mix of cricket, steel drums and Angosturas is set to keep travel buffs and cricket fans in good spirits. And the travel industry is all set to cash in.

Starting January 15 right up to May 15 (the end of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007), the nine CARICOM (Caribbean Community) host countries – Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad & Tobago – along with Dominica are launching a six-month, multiple entry visa into the single domestic space created by the governments to facilitate seamless travel within the region for the World Cup. All Indian nationals travelling to the region during the period will have to use the special visa.

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ACP Divided Over St Kitts – Nevis Sugar Quota

Sunday, January 7th 2007
The African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group has to take a decision on whether the St Kitts sugar quota will remain in the Caribbean or be distributed among all the members of the ACP group.

St Kitts and Nevis has closed its sugar industry in the face of the European Union decision to cut the price of sugar by 36% over a four-year period beginning last year.

The entire ACP group has been affected by the price cuts and its members are divided over whether or not shortfalls in sugar quota should remain in the Caribbean or be distributed.

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Nevis Villa Rental – Dolphin House

Nevis Villa Rental – Dolphin House Set within 1¼ acres of well-established tropical gardens, Dolphin House is the perfect location to experience the magic of this captivating island.  The property enjoys an elevated and extremely private position in one of …

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