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...South Pacific, it's a case of surf, sand and empty beach chairs. In February, French Polynesia reported a 30% drop in year-on-year arrivals - tourist numbers are now at levels last seen in 1996 - while the number of tourists cruising between the islands of Bermuda, Antigua and Barbuda in 2008 sank by almost a fifth. The WTTC estimates the travel industry will contract by 3.5% this year and shed 10 million jobs...
...still primarily a U.S. phenomenon, but Monster.com has 3 million registered users in 15 European countries. Will they pay up? CEO Jeffrey Taylor thinks so: ?Unlike Friendster, we're providing a network with a purpose.? - By Jim Ledbetter All Bets Are Offshore The tiny state of Antigua and Barbuda scored a victory at the World Trade Organization when the WTO outlawed a U.S. ban on online gambling. The Caribbean islands have claimed a significant chunk of the $6 billion global Internet gambling market; the U.S. will appeal...
...Antigua, whose banks have the potential to hide and often help launder billions of dollars for drug cartels, global crime syndicates--and groups like Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization." But the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Financial Action Task Force has found that Antigua and Barbuda is cooperating fully in the fight against money laundering. The governments of the U.S. and Britain agree, removing advisories that had been placed on Antigua and Barbuda...
After the atrocities of Sept. 11, our government did not wait for a request from the U.S. to check bank accounts for identified terrorist organizations and persons. Our financial-intelligence unit conducted a search and exchanged information with U.S. authorities. You misrepresented Antigua and Barbuda and ignored the acknowledged role we have played in combatting financial crime. LIONEL A. HURST, AMBASSADOR Embassy of Antigua and Barbuda Washington...
When U.S.-led forces invaded Grenada in 1983, troops from six other tiny Caribbean island nations were right behind the Americans. Last week, at a highly contentious International Whaling Commission meeting in London, Grenada and four of its former invaders - Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines - stood side-by-side with Japan in angry skirmishes with the U.S. and its anti-whaling allies over the future of the earth's largest mammal. Amid allegations that Japan had bought the votes of the five island states, as well as those of St. Kitts and Nevis...