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...For the roughly 90 members of Mangrove Steelband, Notting Hill Carnival, the world’s second biggest after Rio, is a unique occasion to share their Caribbean heritage and love of music with the 2mn revellers...
...“While Havana fills up and Trinidad follows closely behind, you can still find truly authentic, local experiences in the east,” says Tom Marchant, co-founder of Black Tomato....
...The week ahead in emerging markets: some big EM GDP numbers out, including India, Brazil and South Africa; HSBC results; and the Rio Carnival begins....
...These include the Liverpool Bay operation in the UK, the Pyrenees oilfields in Australia as well as assets in Algeria, Trinidad and Tobago and Pakistan....
...Between meetings at Petrobras in Rio de Janeiro and with President Dilma Rousseff in Brasília, Biden was keen to prove that US-Brazil relations have never been better....
...BHP has US$18.9b worth of non-core assets that could be sold including the aluminium, Alumar alumina, and thermal coal assets, Nickel West, manganese, non-core oil assets (such as Pakistan, Trinidad and...
...Chocolate fanciers generally agree that the best cocoas come from Ecuador, Trinidad, Venezuela and other plantations in Central America....
...His plan is to make it to 103, so he can see the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. But first, he and his wife are gearing up for their trip to London....
...The recent court case surrounding Rio Ferdinand’s love life and the kiss-and-tell sold to a Sunday newspaper have shown again the terrible pressure on today’s soccer stars....
...Nissan, Mexico’s largest carmaker by domestic sales, is building a $2.6bn plant near Rio de Janeiro where it plans to begin producing cars in 2014....
...“I’m careful but just like I would be in any big city such as Rio or New York,” where she worked for five years for Barneys New York....
...www.koelnerkarneval1.de Port of Spain, Trinidad, March 7-8 The Caribbean’s biggest carnival begins under the cloak of darkness in a pre-dawn party named J’Ouvert (from the French jour ouvert, or daybreak...
...Ms Rumbaitis del Rio believes that, as developing cities expand, they have an opportunity to build resilience into their infrastructure....
...The area’s tobacco accounts for much of the wrapper leaf and external filling that give Cuba’s prized cigars such as the Cohiba, Montecristo, Trinidad, Churchill and Partagas their flavour and scent....
...The sharp green hills that rise up between the empty white-sand strips and over the high sugar cane fields make you wonder whether you’ve in fact arrived in Rio, though Rio shrunk to the size of a postage...
...The big driver of all this growth has been the gradual migration of chunks of the once mighty US motor industry south of the Rio Grande in the wake of the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) in 1994...
...The preferred areas are on the north coast, from Montego Bay east to Ocho Rios....
...Reloba was by far the most prevalent of the brands available in the peso shops and these ones were bought in Trinidad on the island’s south coast. They cost one Cuban peso each, about 2p....
...England, having taken an early lead, retreated, and were fortunate that Rio Ferdinand was in such imperious mood and that Paraguay were so ordinary....
...It is no great surprise to learn that two years ago, Rio Ferdinand was dancing on the table in a bar in Miami, but his slightly sheepish recollection of how he spent the 2004 European Championships – for...
...Certainly that is a preferable way of lightening the mood than Rio Ferdinand’s misguided attempt at a practical joke that saw Beckham being “kidnapped” by a fake security guard on Monday....
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