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  • Paola Moreno grabs lead at weather-shortened LPGA Bahamas event

    Paola Moreno moved to 9 under par on a shortened 12-hole course Saturday, taking a one-shot lead into the final round of the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classic. Morena carded a 4-under 41 at Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis Resort, which was truncated to 12 holes after being drenched with nearly a foot of rain Tuesday. The Colombian finished the day at 9-under 81 through 24 of the scheduled 36 ...

  • King of Cuba About Love Loss and Aging

    That tyrant, of course, is Fidel Castro, although Cristina Garcia's new novel, "King of Cuba" (Scribner, $26), never calls him by name. He is El Comandante, El Lider, El Jefe, El Caballo (that last a nickname he now finds embarrassing) or, most often, simply the tyrant. And Goyo's first reason for continuing to live is to kill the tyrant, even if it's the last thing he ...

  • Moreno takes lead in the Bahamas

    PARADISE ISLANDS, Bahamas -; Paola Moreno and Lindsey Wright took the same, simple approach on the winding road through the Ocean Club in the Bahamas LPGA ...

  • Grenada seeks to reduce power bills through pilot program

    ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - A small, rural community on the island of Grenada is being targeted in an international pilot program to help reduce power bills and save energy. The roughly 400 residents of the impoverished village of Telescope will receive energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for the bulbs they are currently using. Grenada Senior Energy Officer John Ogiste said Saturday that ...

  • Wright sets the LPGA pace in rainy Bahamas

    Lindsey Wright didn't realize she finished with six straight 3s on her scorecard. She couldn't name the holes where she made her seven birdies on Saturday. She only knew she played some pretty good golf in the Bahamas LPGA ...

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Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook

Pitched somewhere between the existential screwball comedy of I Heart Huckabees (2004), the experimental whack-job of a film that almost ended his career as a director, and The Fighter (2010), the classically unironic, uplifting drama that resuscitated i ... ...

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  • OAU Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary With Music Caribbean Thinking

    Addis Ababa, May 25 (Prensa Latina) A rhythmic reggae of Peter Tosh and evocations to the mythical Bob Marley gave a Caribbean tone to the celebration today of the Africa Day, marked by a call for unity between the Diaspora and the continent. The president of the African Union Commission (AU), Nkoosazana Dlamini Zuma, seemed to have been dancing from his seat, as several head of States and ...

  • US vice-president to travel to Trinidad talk about trade drug trafficking security issues

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden is expected to talk about trade, drug trafficking and security issues as he travels to the island of Trinidad next week to meet with Caribbean leaders. U.S. Embassy Charge d'Affaires Thomas Smitham says Biden is also likely to discuss leaders' concerns about U.S. deportations of Caribbean migrants with criminal histories. Biden ...

  • Police shootout in Kemp Road

    Several days after two men were shot dead on Kemp Road, residents of the area were sent scrambling again yesterday morning after gunfire erupted. This time, police and an armed robbery suspect exchanged fire. Police said the suspect was shot in his legs. The shootout happened just before a planned police walkabout in the area in response to the double murder on Whit Monday. Superintendent ...

  • Two charged with holiday murders

    Carlon Rolle, 28 (center) was led into court yesterday charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons possession. PHOTOS: AHVIA J. ...

  • Melvin Maycock Sr. denied bail

    The alleged head of the Caribbean arm of an international drug smuggling gang was yesterday refused bail pending a challenge of an extradition order. Senior Justice Jon Isaacs denied bail for Melvin Maycock Sr. on the grounds that he would reoffend if released. Maycock is serving time in connection with a 1,150 pound marijuana seizure committed while police were looking to pick him up on an ...

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