Sentences with phrase «caribbean island states»

Caribbean island states are already experiencing more intense tropical storms, longer and harsher droughts, and more frequent floods, as a result of climate change.

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PDVSA also regularly buys U.S. light crude for processing at its Isla refinery in Curacao and to formulate an exportable Dilute Crude Oil (DCO) blend that is shipped from the Caribbean island to customers in the United States and Asia.

When a natural disaster is so widespread — reaching all the way from the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean to now the Southeast of the United States — it can take a space - based view to put it all in perspective.

Also, fraudulent commercial practices have transferred exports at below - market prices to dummy companies created in Switzerland and the United States, and in offshore banking centers such as Cyprus, the British Channel Islands, the Caribbean islands and Islands, the Caribbean islands and islands and Panama.

Of all the people who moved to the continental US from the Caribbean island in the past four months, more than 300,000 settled in Florida alone, according to the Sunshine State's division of emergency management.

For 20 years, Lasco Foods has been distributing a variety of products island - wide, as well as to the rest of the Caribbean, India, Canada, the United States, Central America and the Middle East.

His sprouts are distributed by his fleet of eight trucks throughout the southeastern United States, on cruise ships in the Caribbean islands and through distributors in Texas.

In addition to the Caribbean Islands, Bigga is distributed throughout the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.

He was referring to his main competitor, Adriano Espaillat, a state senator from the Washington Heights section of Manhattan who would be the first from the Caribbean island in Congress if he wins the four - person race (there's no Republican running).

The tree has moved around the world as an ornamental plant and has become invasive in several states and countries, including Florida, Texas and Hawaii as well as Australia, New Zealand and some Caribbean islands.

But, some Americans have returned to the United States with infections from affected countries in South America, Central America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands, the AP reported.

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Puerto Rico is a self - governing unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.

Grenada is an island nation and sovereign state consisting of the island of Grenada and six smaller islands at the southern end of the Grenadines in the south - eastern Caribbean Sea.

There are thousands single members from such Caribbean islands as Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin Iislands as Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Bahamas, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin IIslands, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin IIslands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Maarten, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and United States Virgin IIslands and United States Virgin IslandsIslands.

First off you should know I don't live in the States, I live in the Caribbean on the island of Antigua, I own and run a small resort there.

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Eligible recipients may be from American Veterinary Medical Association - accredited programs in the United States, Canada, Mexico, South America and the Caribbean Islands.

Over the past month we've seen multiple record setting hurricanes cause catastrophic damage to various parts of the United States, Puerto Rico, the Caribbean islands and beyond.

Days ago Kenny Chesney, known for his country music as well as his love of island life, helped relocate dozens of dogs from hurricane impacted islands in the Caribbean to the United States.

For example, many flights within South America, to the Caribbean, from the Northeastern United States to Canada and in between Hawaiian islands can present outstanding value.

Journese is the luxury brand of Pleasant Holidays, offering customized four - and five - star journeys across the globe, including Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, the Cook Islands, Europe, Fiji, Japan, the Hawaiian Islands, Mexico, New Zealand, Tahiti and the United States.

A huge incentive for people is the fact that life on the island of Ambergris Caye is much more affordable than in the United States and that this is one of the least expensive Caribbean islands that people may vacation in or retire to.

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Tropical Sky creates worldwide tailor made holidays to memorable destinations to the Caribbean, United States, Canada, Central and South America, Africa and the Middle East, Indian Ocean, the Far East, Australia and New Zealand, as well as the Pacific Islands.

Last year, the country saw its relationship with the United States restored, and with commercial air travel expected to resume later this year, tourists are planning to flock to the Caribbean island.

Haiti is officially the Republic of Haiti and is a sovereign state located on the island of Hispaniola, which is in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea.

This product will let us know the state of the ocean on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts, as well as around Cocos Island.

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The United States Virgin Islands — America's Caribbean.

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Geography: The second largest of the former West Indies Associated States, the avocado - shaped St. Lucia lies between Martinique and St. Vincent in the Windward Islands chain of the eastern Caribbean.

The United States Virgin Islands has been elected as chair of the Caribbean Tourism Organisation.

Although entry to the Cayman Islands is easy for US, British and Canadian citizens and citizens of the British Dependent Territories as they do not require passports but must present proof of citizenship, the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security announced the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which will require all U.S. citizens and foreign nationals to carry a passport or other accepted secure documents to enter or re-enter the U.S. from both vacations or business travel anywhere in the Caribbean, Bermuda and Central and South America, effective Dec. 31, 2005.

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While heavily inspired by social issues, specifically the economic crisis in his home country of Puerto Rico that has unfolded over the past 11 years, the artist claims that the works are a not a direct view of the island, but make subtle references to «our history, specifically in the context of being in the Greater Antilles, being Caribbean, but being part of the United States at the same time.»

In my briefings to the Association of Small Island States in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's mStates in Bali, the 41 Island Nations of the Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean (and later circulated to all member states), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's mstates), I pointed out that IPCC had seriously and systematically UNDERESTIMATED the extent of climate change, showing that the sensitivity of temperature and sea level to CO2 clearly shown by the past climate record in coral reefs, ice cores, and deep sea sediments is orders of magnitude higher than IPCC's models.

In Bali I was on the Delegations of Jamaica (my home island and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proisland and a member state of the UN), and of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Center (an Intergovernmental Organization representing almost all Caribbean states), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration prostates), while also representing the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proIsland Developing States (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration proStates (as Coordinator of the Partnership), the Global Coral Reef Alliance (an international NGO), and Yayasan Karang Lestari (Protected Coral Foundation, an Indonesian NGO that runs the world's largest coral reef restoration project).

This activity report summarizes the key outcomes of a meeting of around one hundred climate change education (CCE) experts, primarily from Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in the Caribbean, the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean.

This 0.10 % m / m limit applies in the four established ECAS: the Baltic Sea area; the North Sea area; the North American area (covering designated coastal areas off the United States and Canada); and the United States Caribbean Sea area (around Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands).

UNEP News Center: The high - level political dialogue of Latin American and Caribbean Environment Ministers and international experts produced an agreement to advance a regional cooperation framework on the global sustainable development agenda, climate change, biodiversity, chemicals, waste, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), among other crucial areas of action.

Climate finance in the Caribbean region's Small Island Developing States.

Small island developing states, from the Pacific to the Caribbean, say they are suffering ever more from rising sea levels and storm surges whipped up by cyclones.

The Pacific and Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are susceptible to many hydro - meteorological and other hazards, namely tropical storms and hurricanes, thunderstorms or lightning, coastal storm surges, floods, flash floods, coastal flooding, river flooding, tsunamis, drought, strong winds, heat waves, and dust or haze.

Even if the 1.5 °C target was reached, which scientists say is highly unlikely, a number of low - lying small island states in the Pacific and Caribbean will disappear off the map.

Caribbean nations are especially vulnerable in this regard, with the combination of rising sea levels and increased hurricane activity potentially devastating to some island nations & and a likely increase in immigration from neighbor states.

This region, which more than 40 million people call home, consists of more than forty small island developing states spread across the Indian and Pacific oceans, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean.

These three hurricanes brought enormous devastation to portions of the continental United States, the Caribbean islands, and other parts of the tropical Atlantic.

Specific goals of the Synthesis Workshop included inter alia: to inform health scientists, practitioners, and officials of the impacts of climate variability, and long - term climate change in the Indian Ocean, Pacific, Caribbean and other regions; to address vulnerability assessment and adaptation options for Small Island Countries; and to summarize conclusions and recommendations for common actions and activities for Small Island States and vulnerable islands in general.