Word: antigua
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuba. St. Lucia has a growing population of cocaine addicts and the second highest murder rate in the world. Drug gangs terrorize Trinidad. St. Martin is the new meeting place for the Colombian and Italian drug Mafias--a real Star Wars bar of drug riffraff, claim DEA agents. Antigua has become the newest offshore banking center for shady American and Russian businessmen...
Kincaid is the most personal of writers, and by now most readers will follow the particulars of a new novel from her with one eye on what they know of her unlikely history: a West Indian black, raised on Antigua, who--deep breath here--left home at 17 to escape a turbulent relationship with her mother, went to New York, dyed her hair blond in a brief punk phase, fell in with literary types at the New Yorker and became one of its star writers (though she has recently severed her ties with the magazine and publically criticized editor Tina...
Hounded by the , Vesco spent two decades in epic ostentation and arrogance-on-the-run, buying influence in Costa Rica, contemplating the establishment of a sovereign state in Antigua, toying with journalists, offering hints of revelatory interviews and then, in one case, dancing around a swimming pool with egotistical delight as a lightning storm lit up the Cuban sky, leaving the would-be questioner dangling...
...national borders. To get around nettlesome gambling laws, all you have to do is put your computer operations offshore, in a country where the laws are more tolerant or nonexistent. Most of the virtual casinos are setting up shop in the Caribbean, in tropical getaways like St. Martin, Antigua, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. Belize is considering legislation that would make it the Monte Carlo of cybergambling. "Everyone says it's a banana republic over there, and no one will regulate," says Kerry Rogers, who runs an offshore operation called WagerNet. Rogers maintains, however, that if the Belize National...
Other companies, such as Antigua-based Sports International, are staking their corporate reputations on their ability to run a straight operation. "We're the only [Internet gambling] company that's publicly traded" and thus more accountable, says spokesman Michael Brown. Sports International has signed an agreement with IntraCorp, a well-known computer-gamemaker, to write software that would allow players to "take a virtual walk through the casino, even stop at the bar and have a drink." A virtual drink, of course...