Caribbean+Islands

__Caribbean Islands__



A honeymoon gone bad. Being married 2 weeks Ben and Catherine were murdered in the Caribbean Islands. Ben and Catherine were staying at a
===holiday cottage at the Cocos Hotel and Resort in Valley Church Bay, Antigua, when they were shot. Violent crime is on the rise throughout the Caribbean and inevitably there are times when visitors get caught up in it. The deaths of Ben and Catherine Mullany were personal tragedies for their families and all who knew them. The murder is still unsolved but the investigation is still up and running.=== []

===How the women of Haiti are trying to help bring the country back up. More than 500,000 people are immobile and living in tents in an projected 758 camps. Numerous of families are suffering without admission to clean water and health care, and a devastating cholera rash has killed 6,700 Haitians, with more getting sick every day. An estimated 70% of the populations don’t have steady employment; job chances remain very rare. The women of Haiti are trying to help support the people how are without anything to help them survive. People all around the world are coming to help suport the Haitians now. ===

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===Cuba faces the worst drought in 50 years. The government is providing road deliveries of water to people in the worst affected areas of the capital, Havana. The pipe networks that provide the water to Havana are in poor condition and are causing the water issues. 70% of water pipes supplying the capital are leaking and in urgent need of repair. Residents are having to use buckets and bottles to fill up with water from the road deliveries.Cubans are hoping the rainy season in May and June will bring some respite. But even a normal rainfall will not be enough to fill up the reservoirs.=== []

__**Top 10 Facts**__
 * === About 2 percent of the Caribbean Islands are inhabited ===
 * === Christopher Colombus actually landed in the caribbean when he thought he had landed in the west of the indian sub continent. (West Indies) ===
 * === Mostly all of the residents of the Islands are descendents of African slaves. ===
 * === The foods of the Caribbean Islands are generally from all different cultures but are mostly African, Spanish, Chinese, and East Indian. ===
 * === The Caribbean Islands have two seasons. A Dry season which ranges from December to May and a wet season that ranges from June to November. ===
 * === The Caribbean Islands are mostly made up of coral reefs. Reefs in the Caribbean are about 10-15 million years old ===
 * === More ships cruise the Caribbean Islands than any other region. ===
 * === In the Caribbean Cuba is the most populated country, but Haiti and the Dominican Republic are the most populated country. ===
 * === There are 9 indigineous tribes of the Caribbean. Ciboney, Ciguayo, Kalinago, Galibi, Garifuna, Igneri, Lucayan, Macorix, and Taino. ===
 * === The predominant religion of the Carribean is Christianity. ===

 @http://www.carib-cruises.com/caribbean-facts.html

@http://listverse.com/2010/03/18/10-interesting-facts-about-the-caribbean/

@http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribbean  [] __**Demographics Comparing Countries in the Caribbean**__  per year || 7.22 deaths/1,000 population per year || 99.80% || 77.41 years || per year || 8.21 deaths/1,000 population per year || 61.00% || 62.17 years || per year || 7.30deaths/1,000 population per year || 87% || 75.6 years || per year || 6.55 deaths/1,000 population per year || 87.90% || 73.24 years ||    The pop. growth of Cuba the least of my 4 countries.
 * || Population growth rate || Birth rate || Death Rate || Literacy || Life expectancy at birth ||
 * Cuba || -0.01% || 11.89 births/1,000 population
 * Haiti || 0.79% || 24.4 births/1,000 population
 * D.R || 1.49% || 22.39 births/1,000 population
 * Jamaica || 0.70% || 20.82 births/1,000 population