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Associated Press NEW YORK — New York City’s tourism agency has a new annual goal of 55 million visitors by 2015, and it’s planning to …

JAMAICA: Crackdown planned on farm thieves KINGSTON — The government announced a campaign to crack down on the longtime problem of thieveOrganized rustlers working on …

WASHINGTON (AP) _ The White House was immediately involved in the Agriculture Department’s decision to ask USDA employee Shirley Sherrod to resign in 2010, according …

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s Prime Minister Garry Conille abruptly resigned his post, giving the country a new political crisis that is likely to distract the …

Special to South Florida Times FORT LAUDERDALE —During a 1985 visit to Miami-Dade County, Jerome Hutchinson Jr. heard something at the time he thought remarkable: …

BAHAMAS China invests more than $50M in stadium NASSAU — The Bahamas unveiled a national stadium that China built for more than $50 million as …

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) —Documents on three deadly jetliner crashes in Nigeria, including one in which a plane filled with children going home for Christmas burst …

Former PM George Brizan dies ST. GEORGE’S — George Brizan, a former prime minister who was a founder of the country’s ruling party, has died …

Words have meanings. Ask me. I should know. Using a football analogy, I am in the fourth quarter of my life. So, as a beneficiary …

Guyana Spanish firm drilling for oil, gas GEORGETOWN — The Spanish-based oil company Repsol YPF has started drilling its first well in the Guyana-Suriname Basin.