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InSight Crime’s 2024 Cocaine Seizure Round-Up
InSight Crime - Washington D.C.
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May 7, 2025
Despite record cocaine seizures in production and transit countries, huge quantities of the drug arrived in consumer markets in 2024. Across the board, cocaine production soared and traffickers explored new markets to profit from their...
U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, April 2025 and Annual Revision
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
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June 5, 2025
Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...
Air Canada enhances Latin America services for winter
Travel Trends Today
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May 7, 2025
Introduces four new destinations, 13 new routes and 16% more capacity. Air Canada announced its winter sun schedule, said to be reflecting its largest network expansion to Latin America to date with 16 per cent more seat capacity over last winter....
Record Seaweed Surge Chokes Caribbean Shores, Threatens Wildlife
WFLA Orlando - Florida
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Caribbean Sea - A massive bloom of seaweed known as sargassum has blanketed coastlines across the Caribbean and nearby waters, creating environmental and economic challenges, with scientists warning that the worst may still be ahead this summer....
MPE CARIBBEAN REPORT NEWSLETTER – June 16 2025
I News Cayman
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June 16, 2025
June 16, 2025 Aruba welcomes cruise tourism community The Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) officially opens its PAMAC Destination Summit today in Aruba. This high-level gathering brings together FCCA Platinum Members and cruise...
Promoting dialogue, enhancing mutual learning among civilisations to build a brighter future
The New Today Grenada
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June 14, 2025
Ambassador Wei HongtianOn June 7, 2024, the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly adopted a China-proposed resolution by consensus, declaring June 10 as the International Day for Dialogue among Civilisations. This year, the global community came...
French law permits eco-friendly drone use for safer crop protection
The Scottish Farmer
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April 15, 2025
The legislation allows remote-controlled aircraft to apply biocontrol substances—like pheromones and beneficial microorganisms—as well as pesticides classified as 'low risk' under EU regulations. These products are often used in organic farming...
Father’s Day Gift Guide 2025: The Best Ultra-High-Proof Whiskeys To Impress Dad
Forbes
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A glass of cognac and a few ears of barley on a dark wooden table. getty Sometimes you need a bottle that goes above and beyond, strong enough to withstand a splash of water or a big ice cube, and complex enough to keep surprising him every time...
How — and where — to travel this summer if you're on a tight budget
Calgary Sun
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Breadcrumb Trail Links Travel Beautiful sunset over the Kelowna featuring Okanagan Lake. Getty Images Article content Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from...
Ten great things to do now through summer in the Caribbean
South Florida Sun Sentinel
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May 5, 2025
MAY 15-18 Virgin Islands Boating Expo, destination boat show with yacht tours, vendor expo, music and cultural performances. Times, locations and ticket prices vary. St. Thomas. vibe.vi. 21-26 Aruba Soul Fest, inaugural event featuring meet and...
Land needs assessed for TAMCC Mirabeau campus development
Now Grenada
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May 21, 2025
The TA Marryshow Community College (TAMCC), with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, conducted a reconnaissance mission of the Mirabeau Campus aimed at identifying lands for future campus expansion and the enhancement of the...
Scientists say a record amount of seaweed hit the Caribbean and nearby areas in May
NBC 6 Miami - Florida
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June 14, 2025
A record amount of sargassum piled up across the Caribbean and nearby areas in May, and more is expected this month, according to a new report. The brown prickly algae is suffocating shorelines from Puerto Rico to Guyana and beyond, disrupting...
May 2025 was the planet’s second-warmest on record
Yale Climate Connections - Connecticut
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June 12, 2025
May 2025 was Earth’s second-warmest May in analyses of global weather data going back to 1850, NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, or NCEI, reported June 12. NASA and the European Copernicus Climate Change Service also rated May...
Talks underway with China on QEH expansion
Barbados Today
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June 12, 2025
200 The island’s main public health facility is poised for its most ambitious expansion in history, with Prime Minister Mia Mottley announcing plans to increase capacity at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) by 40 per cent, supported by a...
Youth excel at National Tourism Youth Congress 2025
Now Grenada
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May 21, 2025
The Ministry of Tourism, the Creative Economy and Culture successfully hosted the National Tourism Youth Congress on Friday, 9 May 2025, showcasing the remarkable talent, intellect, and enthusiasm of Grenadian youths in shaping the future of the...
Regent Seven Seas Prestige ushers in a new world of “casual luxury” at up to $40,000 a night
Cruise Passenger
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June 11, 2025
Regent Seven Seas is building a new class of ship. Seven Seas Prestige will have an enormous master suite with an equally big price tag. But what has many talking is the fact that the “World’s Most Luxurious Fleet” has become, well, more relaxed....
USNS Comfort in Grenada Port with Continuing Promise 2025
Loop News
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The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is in Grenada, marking the Continuing Promise 16th mission to the region since 2007 and the eighth voyage on Comfort. The ship arrived on island on June 9, 2025 to provide a variety of medical...
William Kentridge Reflects on What It Means to Be a South African Artist
The New York Times
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June 9, 2025
The artist William Kentridge, photographed at Hauser & Wirth gallery in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood on April 30, 2025. Daniel Terna “I think my experience of South Africa has been that one has to keep an optimism and a pessimism together, and...
Lower gas prices for May 2025
Now Grenada
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May 18, 2025
The general public is informed that effective Sunday, 18 May 2025, the retail prices of petroleum products (Gasoline, Diesel, Kerosene, and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG), commonly known as Cooking Gas), in the State of Grenada will be as follows:...
Grenada Tourism Authority appoints Stacey Liburd as CEO
Travel Press
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June 12, 2025
By TravelPress Staff June 12, 2025 The Grenada Tourism Authority has appointed Stacey A. Liburd as chief executive officer, effective June 15, 2025. With more than 15 years of experience in destination marketing, stakeholder engagement, and...