Sports As in other Caribbean countries of British colonial heritage, cricket is very popular on the island.

Kralendijk () is the capital city and main port of the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean Netherlands.

Saint Lucia () is a sovereign island country in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean.

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Chávez is giving away oil to Caribbean island nations and Cuba, and buying off Argentine debt to help President Nestor Kirchner s political fortunes.

Those who live on this Caribbean island are well informed and aware, not helpless infants in need of being rescued, much less scolded.

Oranjestad (Orange Town) is a small town of approximately 1,000 inhabitants it is the capital of the island of Sint Eustatius in the Caribbean Netherlands.

With an area of , Jamaica is the largest island of the Commonwealth Caribbean and the third largest of the Greater Antilles, after Cuba and Hispaniola.

With the exception of Navassa Island, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, which are located in the Caribbean, all territories are located in the Pacific Ocean.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is an island country in the Lesser Antilles Island arc, in the southern portion of the Windward Islands, which lie at the southern end of the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea where the latter meets the Atlantic Ocean.

In 1971, Papa Doc entered into 99 year contract with Don Pierson representing Dupont Caribbean Inc. of Texas for a free port project on the old buccaneer stronghold of Tortuga island located some off the north coast of the main Haitian island of Hispaniola.

The Bahamas, along with its Caribbean Community partners, has consistently expressed its grave concerns regarding the threat posed to the security and environmental and economic sustainability of the small island developing States of the region by the trans shipment of nuclear waste through the Caribbean Sea.

We are delighted that the Committee on Decolonisation accepted our invitation to host this important forum which we in the Eastern Caribbean regard as a highly significant activity to promote the future development of the remaining small island non self governing territories in the Atlantic Caribbean region and elsewhere.

IMO also contributes to, and funds, an array of activities through its technical cooperation programme, including capacity building activities with small island developing states, with special emphasis on the wider Caribbean region.

The largest island is Andros Island.

Melville Island may refer to Melville Island (Australia), in the Northern Territory Melville Island (Northwest Territories and Nunavut), in northern Canada Melville Island (Nova Scotia), a small island in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada Melville Island, a small island in the Discovery Islands near Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada Melville Island, a small island near Dundas Island near Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada

Anguilla is a member of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank, an associate member of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, the Association of Caribbean States, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean and the Caribbean Community and Common Market.

I also wish to associate myself with those who have spoken previously on behalf of the landlocked developing countries, the small island developing States, the Caribbean Community and, of course, the least developed countries.

Borden Island, Mackenzie King Island and Melville Island were divided between the two territories.

The only inhabited island is Willis Island.

Four more SRAPs are being prepared one in Mesoamerica , one in the Colombia Venezuela share ecosystem , and two in the Caribbean subregion, one for the Hispaniola island ecosystem and the other for the entire subregion

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The Caribbean Community has a special interest in the protection of the Caribbean Sea.

Padang Island is an island in Riau province, Indonesia, close to the east coast of Sumatra island.

Hawaii, also called the Island of Hawaii, the Big Island or Hawaii Island ( or Hawaiian or ), is an island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.

The Caribbean blogosphere is busy tonight, discussing very sad news an earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale struck off the coast of Haiti, causing major damage and loss of life in the already besieged island nation.

At , Samosir is the largest island within an island, and the fifth largest lake island in the world.

Banks Island covers an area and it is the world's 24th largest island and Canada's fifth largest island.

Cedros Island (Isla de Cedros, island of cedars in Spanish, also called in English Cerros Island in former times) is a Mexican island in the Pacific Ocean.

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For that reason, Caroline Island has been renamed Millennium Island.

The recorded history of Haiti began on 5 December 1492 when the European navigator Christopher Columbus happened upon a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean.

In 1654, Oliver Cromwell decided to turn on Spain (which had been the first state to recognise the Commonwealth of England) and seize the island of Hispaniola to make it a base for English expansion in the Caribbean.

With regard to the small island Territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific, the international community must facilitate the sustainable growth of their economies in order to advance the decolonization process according to the wishes of their peoples.

Some islands are named for their river mile distance, for example the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania has Six Mile Island, Nine Mile Island, Twelve Mile Island, and Fourteen Mile Island.

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