Sentences with phrase «islands visited by»

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The Caribbean economy has been in a slump for several years, affected by the global financial crisis, which caused a slowdown in tourist visits to regions like the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the Bahamas.

On a visit to the border region, EU negotiator Michel Barnier said «we need to agree rapidly by June on the scope of all - island customs and regulations, the safety and controls that we need to respect the single market.»

Posted 24 October 2014 11:32 GMT by Rezwan Each year, approximately one million tourists visit the island nation Maldives for its sunny warm weather and stunning natural beauty.

At the very least, they might have noticed that Mr. Trump isn't showing the same level of concern for hurricane damage in their island as he did for earlier damage to Texas and Florida, both of which he had visited by this point.

Take Hainan, the tropical island just visited by President Xi Jinping.

They worship their messiah that visited their island, by the name of John Frum.

Persecuted Christians on Indonesia's Ambon island face desperate conditions and the world is largely ignoring their plight, said two Americans who recently returned from a visit to the island.As many as 500,000 Christians have been driven from their homes and more than 2,500 have been killed by Muslim «jihad» warriors who have publicly declared they will push all Christians off the island or kill them.Christians are fleeing into the mountains, flooding into refugee camps and clogging ports to wait for the few ships ferrying refugees off the island.

By the year 1651 a sufficient number of Baptists were located in Massachusetts to merit a visit of fellow Rhode Island Baptists.

Havana (CNN)- In a rare speech on state - controlled television, Cuba's Catholic cardinal said an upcoming visit by the pope would reignite the religious fervor in the island.

The Forth day was an excursion, a trip to Hvar Island by catamaran, vineyard visit.

Kona coffee beans have a long history and were first planted in Hawaii way back in 1820, and by the time Mark Twain visited the Big Island he was impressed with the fact that coffee had a much richer taste and flavor than any other he had tried.

The visitor who allows himself some slack time to wander about, visiting a volcano here, a seacoast there, is taken by the remarkable capacity these small islands have for absorbing almost anything, whether it be a mile - wide stream of hot lava, a tidal wave, an incursion of mongooses and rats or a touring busload of Stetsoned Texans.

Famous for: His 5 year around the world trip where he visited the Galapagos Islands and based his evidence found on his theory of evolution by natural selection

«During a rainy weekend visiting relatives in Rhode Island, my aunt — one of the most intuitively child - oriented people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing — erased the rainy day blues by giving my daughter the Let's Pretend Rose's Doll's House.

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

Hop on the ferry to the Toronto Islands and visit this cute, well - kept and interactive green space for families on Centre Island, inspired by Franklin the turtle of the popular book series.

Witnessing the destruction of our islands from afar during that time has upset us deeply, as has the refusal by successive British governments to allow us to return to the islands, even just to visit and tend to the graves of our ancestors.

The recent visit to Beijing by the U.S. secretary of defense, Leon Panetta — which coincided with State Department statements that the U.S. - Japan security treaty would apply to the disputed Senkaku Islands — highlights the growing tension with China over America's military presence in Asia, Chinese efforts to counteract it, and the dangerous misperceptions that can arise if defense strategy gets in the way of diplomacy.

Tourists haven't been deterred from visiting the tropical island of Guam even though the U.S. territory has been the target of threats from North Korea during a week of angry words exchanged by Pyongyang and Washington.

SAN JUAN (CBSNewYork / AP)-- President Donald Trump said Thursday that Puerto Rico was «absolutely obliterated» by Hurricane Maria and said he plans to visit the island.

If Jonathan was advised by Mohammed to hop on a chopper en route to Lagos, what stops the Daura herdsman from clambering into a train from Abuja to Ikeja thence to Lagos Island; that would, at least, afford him the opportunity to see cows» grazing routes, and also save Lagosians the nuisance, which his visit turned out to be.

He's been the to the Midwest more than he's bothered to visit Staten Island, the Staten Island Advance noted (in a statistic that was picked up by the Associated Press).

Although, a delegation of American legislators led by Sen. Patrick Leahy arrived in Cuba Saturday to discuss greater cooperation and remaining areas of disagreement — the first congressional delegation to visit the island nation since Obama's announcement.

The Thursday schedule included stops at a dozen stations in Manhattan and the Bronx, followed by a Friday tour of stations in Brooklyn and Queens — and a visit to the Stapleton station on the Staten Island Railway.

On a visit to the troubled Rikers Island jail facilities a few years ago, Councilmember Daniel Dromm was taken aback by an unannounced companion accompanying a group that included council members and the corrections commissioner.

Erie County Legislator Kevin Hardwick, joined by Grand Island Supervisor Mary Cooke, City of Tonawanda Mayor Rick Davis and Town of Tonawanda Supervisor Anthony Caruana, recently welcomed Visit Buffalo Niagara President and CEO Patrick Kaler to the northern section of Erie County to tour sites in the municipalities they represent.

Bronx, NY — Senator Klein, accompanied by Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark and DOC Commissioner Joseph Ponte, visited the Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau, where Klein was briefed on how his $ 100,000 funding allocation helped equip the Bronx DA satellite office.

BOARDWALK EMPIRE — «Coney Island's boardwalk becomes an NYC landmark on its 95th anniversary,» by Curbed New York's Tanay Warerkar: «The Riegelmann Boardwalk at Coney Island was officially designated New York City's eleventh scenic landmark on Tuesday morning, capping a years long effort by local residents and elected officials to officially recognize the cultural icon that is synonymous with visiting Coney Island.

Trump said that he would visit the devastated island of Puerto Rico next Tuesday, describing the island as «literally destroyed» after a direct hit by Hurricane Maria.

In April 2016, during a visit to Cairo by the Saudi monarch, King Salman, Mr. Sisi announced that he had signed a maritime agreement ceding control of the islands, which sit at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba.

WASHINGTON — A delegation of American legislators led by Senator Patrick J. Leahy arrived in Cuba on Saturday to discuss greater cooperation and remaining areas of disagreement, the first congressional delegation to visit the island nation since President Obama announced last month that he was restoring full diplomatic ties with it.

PLEASANT PLAINS — Anthony Weiner made his first Staten Island visit of the mayoral race Monday night, and got hit by rivals Sal Albanese and the Green Party candidate.

Cuomo visited the island shortly after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria and said he was surprised at the lack of progress five weeks later.

Jonathan FickesUFT President Michael Mulgrew is flanked by Alicia Schwartz (left) of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, who used vacation time to help out in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and Nancy Barth - Miller, the chapter leader at Staten Island University Hospital.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew is flanked by Alicia Schwartz (left) of the Visiting Nurse Service, who used vacation time to help out in Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and Nancy Barth - Miller, a member at Staten Island University Hospital.

Now a team of researchers working with France's Centre of Evolutionary and Functional Ecology and CIRAD, a French agricultural research and development center, has identified one such temporal control: sweet potato samples preserved in herbariums assembled by the first European explorers to visit many Polynesian islands.

In the Galapagos Islands, another wilderness ecosystem inhabited by sea birds and seals, sea lions and other pinnipeds, many tourists visit the breeding colonies every day of the year.

According to a statement issued by the foundation after its General Assembly met yesterday, the Ecuadorian government, and in particular the director of the Galápagos National Park, called the foundation «essential» and said it wanted to strengthen ties with the organization, which facilitates visits by foreign researchers to the islands.

Indeed, stone tools and mammoth bones unearthed in the 1970s at La Cotte de St Brelade, a cave on the south of the island, revealed the site was repeatedly visited by Neanderthals from at least 240,000 years ago.

This weekend, I'll be attending a restaurant opening in - town, Fashion Week OC at Fashion Island hosted by Simply, and visiting my local Nordstrom to check out their Fall Beauty Trend event!

We left Corfu to visit some beautiful island about an hour away by ferry called Paxos and Antipaxos.

Work your way through the country by visiting Chiang Mai (in the north), Bangkok (especially great for shopping), and travel through the southern islands for beautiful blue ocean waters and white sand beaches.

During my one month vacation in Italy, I visited the Tremiti Islands or also known by their Italian name Isole Tremiti.

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The Evolution of Charles Darwin A creationist when he visited the Galápagos Islands, Darwin grasped the significance of the unique wildlife he found there What: Father of the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is hailed in the mainstream

But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

The lives of a high profile couple, a famous rock star and a filmmaker (Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts), vacationing and recovering on the idyllic sun - drenched and remote Italian island of Pantelleria are disrupted by the unexpected visit of an old friend and his daughter (Ralph Fiennes and Dakota Johnson)- creating a whirlwind of jealousy, passion and, ultimately, danger for everyone involved.

Velvet will join a crew of pirates as they sail across the sea and visit the many islands that make up the sacred kingdom of Midgand in an all - new adventure developed by the celebrated team behind the TALES OF series.

But there are also visits to a whizzy casino planet and more time on Luke's isolated island, populated by porgs, those almost insanely cute critters who get the film's edgiest joke.

This lighthearted slapstick classic features visits to Coney Island and Yankee Stadium, an incredible cameo by Babe Ruth, and hair - raising cab rides through the city streets.