Caribbean articles
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Royal Caribbean Lifts Profit View Again on Cruise Boom, Higher Prices
April 25 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Group RCL.N on Thursday raised its annual profit forecast for a second time, after record bookings during the first quarter and higher ticket pricing boosted its results, sending its
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NY Army National Guard aviation Soldiers heading to Caribbean for military exercise
LATHAM, New York-- Forty-five Latham-based New York Army National Guard Soldiers will be heading for the Caribbean at the end of April to take part in a 26-nation exercise called Exercise Tradewinds 2024. The exercise is organized each year by the United States Southern Command. This year's exercise will take place on the island of Barbados and focus on combating transnational criminal organizations. The 45 Soldiers will deploy for 20 days and are members of A Company of the 3rd Battalion...
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‘Reminds them of home’: African and Caribbean artists are reviving New Orleans’ musical spirit
Beset by hurricanes and rising insurance prices, the city saw people leaving in droves – but a program is encouraging jazz artists to move to the ‘most exciting musical city in the world’Hammered by hurricanes, rutted streets and rising insurance rates, the metro New Orleans area saw 45,000 people leave between 2020 and 2023 – a 4.3% outmigration worse than any other US urban area.Those departures seemed a surreal idea as vast crowds streamed into the annual two-week Jazz and Heritage festival...