Topic: Guadeloupe
AFP Global Edition | 2010-01-22 18:10:30
<div><p>Barcelona striker Thierry Henry has made a 56,000-euro donation to French NGO Medecins sans Frontieres as a contribution to rescue efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, his club said on Friday.</p><p>"Our striker has collaborated with Medecins sans Frontieres and has decided to give 56,000 euros to help ...
Reuters US Online Report World News | 2010-01-11 10:32:15
<div><p>FORT-DE-FRANCE (Reuters) - Voters in the French Caribbean territories of Martinique and Guyana rejected the option of greater autonomy in a referendum at the weekend, authorities said.</p><p>A year after protests against high prices in the island of Guadeloupe spread to other French overseas regions, the referendum offered the ...
AP Features | 2009-09-24 23:55:25
<div><p>This French Caribbean island has banned fishing in all its rivers and some coastal areas for the next year after finding high levels of a controversial pesticide.</p><p>Recent studies by local health officials found more than double the accepted amount of kepone — also known as chlordecone — in 96 ...
Reuters Environmental Online Report | 2009-09-02 22:08:37
<div><p>MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Erika weakened as it edged over the Leeward Islands of the northeast Caribbean on Wednesday but it threatened to douse them with heavy rainfall, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.</p><p>The fifth tropical storm of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season had sustained winds ...
