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Raul Castro's 81st a reminder of aging leadership
Cuban President Raul Castro turns 81 on Sunday, another reminder to his countrymen and to the exiles who hate him that time is catching up with the island's aging revolutionaries.But even with the actuarial inevitabilities looming, there is no indication that Cuba's leadership is moving quickly to prepare any younger possible successors to assume the mantle of Marxism under which the island has been

Caymans freeing turtle to honor British queen
A turtle farm in the Cayman Islands says it is freeing a roughly 60-year-old turtle to celebrate British Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne.

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Dominican Republic to require migrant work permits

The Dominican Republic plans to start penalizing all companies that hire illegal workers under a new labor regulation that has sparked anger among the Caribbean country's estimated 1 million

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Haiti police: 4 confess to killing of Swiss woman
-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Four men have confessed they killed a Swiss woman after she began to investigate the finances of an orphanage in northern Haiti, a police official said Thursday.

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Montserrat decries colony status on UN list
The tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat no longer wants the United Nations to list it as a colony.

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Grenada PM discloses donation into bank account
'S, Grenada (AP) — Grenada's leader has announced that someone he calls a "friend of Grenada" deposited $50,000 into his personal bank account five months ago.

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