CARIBBEAN FEATURE

BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE ROLE of the Caribbean as a staging point for ill-gotten gains goes back to the trans-Atlantic misadventures of the first European ships over 400 years ago. It would appear some habits die hard. Wesley Gibbings reports from Port of Spain, Trinidad.WOODEN hulls and fabric sails are now broadband Internet connections and corporate seals: the stakes are just as high and the journey no less dangerous. The current predicament of former Trinidad & Tobago prime minister, Basdeo Panday, goes as far to offers a tidily packaged prototype displaying ...


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