Stories Collection

  1. Some of the major enhancements are eliminating head contention, reducing or eliminati...
  2. In 1994, HP's Man-Link recipe-generation system was enhanced to reduce the time requi...
  3. Continuous support for a software development improvement effort requires at least tw...
  4. The subject of this paper is the evaluation of the wetting balance as a technique for...
  5. Software failure analysis and root-cause analysis have become valuable tools in enabl...
  6. Creating and maintaining a consistent set of specifications that result in software s...
  7. The traditional waterfall life cycle has been the mainstay for software developers fo...
  8. Early software reuse efforts focused on libraries of general-purpose routines or func...
  9. For many software and firmware products today, creating the entire architecture and d...
  10. CHILDREN TRADE SCHOOL FOR SUGAR FIELDS. Twelve-year-old Joel Rivera missed school all...
  11. CANADIAN BUSINESSES GROW HERE. During the past decade, a small group of Canadian comp...
  12. TIGHTER CONTROL OVER TOURISM. Cuba's government is reasserting central control of the...
  13. STARWOOD TO OPERATE CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL. Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide,...
  14. HOUSE OPPOSES BUSH RULES. The House dealt an election-season setback to President Bus...
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  17. LOW-COST HOUSING UPDATE. Shymdeo Gosine, CEO of the DOC Group of Companies, said that...
  18. FREE TRADE ACCORD SIGNED. The United States and five Central American countries signe...
  19. ONE-STOP INVESTMENT SHOP. The Nicaraguan Government's one stop shop, the "Ventanilla ...
  20. FREE ZONE EXPORTS UP. The National Council of Export Free Zones says that in 2003 the...
  21. COMBING OLD SHIPWRECKS. Admiralty Corp. of Atlanta GA has exclusive rights to recover...
  22. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin March 2003, 2004 (millions of US$) ...
  23. DOMINICAN FACTORY TO LEAVE. A Dominican factory that makes Levi's jeans in a Haitian ...
  24. ONE MILLION TOURISTS. Cuba celebrated the arrival of a million tourists in record tim...
  25. INFO TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT. El Salvador has received a loan from the Inter-American De...
  26. U.S. DENIES VISAS TO RESORT EXECS. The Bush administration has notified a Jamaica-bas...
  27. DROUGHT THREATENS SUGAR CROP. A year-long drought in central-eastern Cuba has hit sug...
  28. Country Commercial Guides (CCGs) are prepared each year by the U.S. Department of Com...
  29. MAJOR INVESTMENT IN BAUXITE, ALUMINA. In March 2004, a major expansion of the Jamalco...
  30. FERNANDEZ RETURNS TO PRESIDENCY. Thousands of jubilant supporters massed shoulder-to-...
  31. CANCUN TOURISM GROWING. Cancun, on the Caribbean coast of Mexico, continues growing a...
  32. LIMON BETS ON CRUISE SHIPS. The Caribbean port city of Limon is betting on tourism fr...
  33. SEVERE WATER CRISIS. Honduran mother-of-four Maria Mendez slaps a pair of trousers do...
  34. GROWING FOOD EXPORTS TO MIGRANTS. The Pupusa is El Salvador's signature, like the U.S...
  35. A SOBERING PORTRAIT. The following excerpts from a U.S. Commerce Department report on...
  36. NEVIS SEEKING INDEPENDENCE? The opposition Nevis Reformation Party has called for ass...
  37. U.S. NAVY TO CLOSE PUERTO RICO BASE. U.S. Navy ships are vanishing from Roosevelt Roa...
  38. FREE TRADE TALKS BEGIN. The United States and the Dominican Republic began talks to i...
  39. Cuban researchers have developed the first synthetic vaccine against a bacteria that ...
  40. The telecommunications sector in Honduras is evolving toward a competitive market, le...
  41. Trinidad & Tobago is pressing development of gas-fired power generation to suppor...
  42. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin September 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
  43. An IMF team has concluded that the Dominican Republic's decision to buy back two trou...
  44. When one of the world's largest deep-sea drilling rigs parks off Cuba next March, the...
  45. Donald J. Trump and Canouan Resorts Development, Ltd. announced on Nov. 21 that Mr. T...
  46. Across the United States, some six million immigrants from the Caribbean and Latin Am...
  47. Honduras reached a preliminary agreement with the International Monetary Fund to give...
  48. This report, by the U.S. Embassy in Panama, provides an overview of the Export Proces...
  49. Saying that "something had to be done" to save Jamaica's farm sector and to slash the...
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  51. A proposed undersea pipeline from the Bahamas to Florida's southern Broward County ha...
  52. The International Monetary Fund said economic stability should be a priority for Suri...
  53. Thirty-six of the 46 companies awarded contracts earlier this in November to do busin...
  54. The UK Treasury has failed to extract an explicit commitment from the Cayman Islands ...
  55. The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) on Dec. 9 said Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., t...
  56. The fishing sector represents one of Panama's largest export generators and is an imp...
  57. Small American businesses are gaining a foothold in the Cuban market dominated so far...
  58. Negotiators said they are increasingly confident that a free-trade agreement will be ...
  59. The Puerto Rico government expects to conclude financing deals for the US$183.3 milli...
  60. Cuba trumpeted the presence of U.S. companies at Havana's annual international trade ...
  61. House-Senate bargainers bowed to a White House veto threat and upheld the four-decade...
  62. BHP Billiton Ltd. has made another gas discovery in its Angostura field off Trinidad'...
  63. Multi-billion dollar plans to create a rival to the 90-year-old Panama canal by linki...
  64. Cuba, once one of the world's largest sugar exporters, now might import the commodity...
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  66. A 10-time world bridge champion is among investors suing two Bahamian banking compani...
  67. Sherritt International Corp.'s oil, gas and power generation businesses in Cuba have ...
  68. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin August 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
  69. The Dominican Republic said it would soon sell stakes in cash-strapped electricity co...
  70. The people of Guatemala, long plagued by war, corruption and poverty, on Nov. 9 sent ...
  71. For nearly 1,200 Houston businesses, the negotiations to open up trade with Central A...
  72. An inspection of a factory that produces a clothing line for rap music mogul Sean "P....
  73. These days, with a personal computer and a credit card, anybody can quickly and easil...
  74. The Honduran government has canceled a 12-year, US$477 million contract to buy power ...
  75. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick took two messages to Central America during...
  76. The U.S. Embassy in Managua recently issued an update on the investment climate in Ni...
  77. The door to U.S.-Cuba trade has cracked slightly open, and Port Manatee, Fla. wants t...
  78. Condado residents will have to be patient a little longer. The government had hoped t...
  79. Bluewater Energy Services B.V. (based in The Netherlands) has been awarded a contract...
  80. A leading U.S. farm cooperative said it will sell another US$8 million in corn and so...
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  82. Cuba's many prisons may hold 100,000, reports The Miami Herald (Sept. 22, 2003). If a...
  83. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin July 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
  84. Efrain Rios Montt, 77, Guatemala's military dictator from 1982 to 1983, during the bl...
  85. The V.I. Government is in talks with two groups about opening medical schools in the ...
  86. Barbados' international financial services sector, which brings in some $200 million ...
  87. Edward Seaga's Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) broke its long electoral drought by winning...
  88. Cuba signed an operating agreement with the Port of Corpus Christi, an agreement that...
  89. President Fidel Castro has turned to a string of newly appointed loyalists to help ke...
  90. Haiti has paid US$32 million in arrears to the Inter-American Development Bank, nearl...
  91. Chiquita Brands International has closed on the sale of its Puerto Armuelles Fruit Co...
  92. The Panama Canal Authority is increasing tolls as well as the notice time required by...
  93. A U.S.-Cuba trade group is trying to get the Bush administration to reverse its block...
  94. Fitch Ratings, the international rating agency, has changed the Rating Outlook for Ar...
  95. The Government has given the approval for the expansion of the Atlantic Liquefied Nat...
  96. President Enrique Bolanos, after winning office in late 2001 with a pledge to crack d...
  97. The millionth person to visit Cuba this year arrived recently, and government officia...
  98. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) began construction, at an eventual c...
  99. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin April 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
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  101. The world's most sensitive listening device is about to hear more from the universe. ...
  102. Police raided the offices of two Nicaraguan businesses accused of selling government ...
  103. Guatemala has failed to promote social and ethnic equality and hasn't stamped out cri...
  104. More than 120 companies provide Security Guard Services with 16,000 guards in the Dom...
  105. A U.S. firm may register themselves as a foreign firm in Haiti at any Haitian Consula...
  106. After seven months without rain in a tropical country that usually sees heavy rainfal...
  107. Cuba's economy has stagnated so far this year, despite a surge in tourism that has he...
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  109. The Caucedo Multi-modal Free Zone is a new greenfield port development project in the...
  110. Trinidad & Tobago's Atlantic LNG plant has started production on Train 3, increas...
  111. Jamaica's National Housing Trust (NHT) will be pushing for the construction of inexpe...
  112. Worker cooperative to buy Chiquita's Panama unit Chiquita Brands International Inc. s...
  113. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin February 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
  114. The turquoise bay ringed by ruins of a 19th century plantation and crimson-flowered f...
  115. Two Caribbean airlines are to merge by June in an effort to remain operating as they ...
  116. The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave preliminary approval to the US$144...
  117. Two decades after its last serious search for petroleum, Jamaica is to take another s...
  118. There is a strong market for engineering and construction services in the Dominican R...
  119. To get a mobile phone, Costa Ricans endure long waiting periods and pay astronomical ...
  120. For more than four decades, Cuban leader Fidel Castro has tried to keep traces of cap...
  121. Online sportsbooks have found Costa Rica to be a hospitable host to their processing ...
  122. The Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR) revised on Dec. 12, 2002 its earlier estimates ...
  123. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said April 4 that it revised its outlook on th...
  124. Cuba's jailing of dozens of dissidents and the execution of three ferry hijackers hav...
  125. The last jail sentences in a crackdown on Cuba's opposition were announced as U.S. Se...
  126. Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said April 1 that it affirmed its sovereign cr...
  127. Three men charged with terrorism for hijacking a passenger ferry were executed after ...
  128. During the last year, the St Lucia economy witnessed a marginal recovery reflected in...
  129. Worries about war and terrorism are sparking a sudden spurt in the number of American...
  130. It's going to cost TT$1 more per pound for chicken bought wholesale, president of the...
  131. Cuba's sugar harvest remained well behind schedule with the official media reporting ...
  132. In 1995, the Government of Haiti published a law on the crude oil sector calling for ...
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  134. Cuba's 2002/2003 coffee crop declined 14% to between 12 million kilograms (12,000 ton...
  135. Caribbean leaders, meeting at Montego Bay, Jamaica, promised work together to help th...
  136. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin January 2002, 2003 (millions of US$) ...
  137. This short report by the U.S. Embassy here provides insight into Internet use in Nica...
  138. The Government tabled a J$262 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but with nearly...
  139. El Salvador has received a US$31 million loan from the Inter-American Development Ban...
  140. Jose Miguel Ventura Asilis, the promoter of the Haina-Santiago train concession in th...
  141. The first exports of U.S. seafood - Pacific salmon, octopus and imitation crab -- arr...
  142. Antigua & Barbuda has led the way among Caribbean countries in complaining to the...
  143. For a while now, Cuban households have experienced a dearth of many of the consumer g...
  144. Two of the biggest banks on Wall Street have teamed up to bid for a stake in the Baha...
  145. The Dominican Republic is the largest importer of U.S. foodstuffs in the Caribbean re...
  146. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has crafted a package of trade benefits for Hait...
  147. President Mejia announced in his Feb. 27 speech that he was sending bills focusing on...
  148. Cuba has fired four of six deputy ministers at the Economy and Planning Ministry in a...
  149. Jamaica, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic are major Caribbean transit routes fo...
  150. Cuba's foreign trade declined by more than US$900 million in 2002, as a foreign excha...
  151. Joan Slote, who went on a cycling holiday to Cuba, was fined nearly US$8,000 for brea...
  152. Starting in 2004 the nickel industry expects to exceed the 100,000 tons mark followin...
  153. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin December 2001, 2002 (millions of US$) ...
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  155. Jamaica's Government is moving speedily toward implementing a liquefied natural gas p...
  156. The state-owned Jamaica Urban Transit Co. (JUTC) said 280 jobs are being made redunda...
  157. Cuba said yields were less than expected at the 54 mills producing raw sugar, as the ...
  158. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin November 2001, 2002 (millions of US$) ...
  159. Drawing attention to an increasingly important part of emerging market debt, Bear Ste...
  160. Twenty years ago, factories in Haiti provided more than 60,000 jobs, and produced blu...
  161. In a marked shift away from hard-line positions, a majority of Cuban Americans in Sou...
  162. International financial groups such as Spain's BBVA and Dutch group ING plan to enter...
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  164. Jamaica has received funding from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) to help financ...
  165. Export sales for Guyana's next rice crop could be jeopardized if Jamaica continues to...
  166. As the first stage in negotiations to expand free trade throughout the Western Hemisp...
  167. Cuba's oil and natural gas output will increase 17% this year, reaching the equivalen...
  168. War anxiety, rising fuel costs and a fragile U.S. economy have tempered the outlook f...
  169. Dozens of workers laid off by an organic banana plantation in Grenada are protesting ...
  170. The Government registered a budget deficit of US$633.65 million in 2002, one of the l...
  171. Betting on tourism to pull Cuba out of its economic slump, President Fidel Castro pre...
  172. Cuba said its storm-damaged Jaguey Grande citrus orchard would produce 300,000 tons o...
  173. Dominican officials are engaged in talks with The Corporation of Ports, Customs, and ...
  174. The Cuban Government sees economic growth at less than 1% in 2003, below the 2% to 3%...
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  176. More than 300 Cuban dissident groups have formed a kind of opposition parliament, for...
  177. The U.S. and Central America will begin negotiating a decisive free trade agreement i...
  178. While their neighbors struggle with declining tourism dollars, a handful of Caribbean...
  179. A sluggish U.S. economy and tumbling stock markets have taken a toll on travel spendi...
  180. Illuminat, an information technology and communications services provider operating i...
  181. Guatemala has received a loan from The World Bank (No. 4415-GU) to partly finance the...
  182. Jamaica's gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 0.8% during the June quarter, over the...
  183. South Korea stole the show on opening day at Cuba's international trade fair, signing...
  184. The Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) has granted Cuba a US$60 million credit to pur...
  185. Haiti's Government failed to meet an OAS deadline for setting up an electoral council...
  186. Breakwater Resources Ltd. on Oct. 28 announced that the employees of its El Mochito M...
  187. Eight Caribbean islands have agreed to create an economic union they hope will streng...
  188. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin August 2001, 2002 (millions of US$) ...
  189. The World Bank approved three loans totaling US$129.8 million (J$6.4 billion) to supp...
  190. Texas native Richard Ellis is much more than a coffee grower. In the highlands of wes...
  191. The transformation from secretive island banking haven to global financial player, an...
  192. The Panama Canal Railway chugs from the Pacific to the Atlantic in one hour, on a 47-...
  193. President Francisco Flores announced an ambitious economic package designed to create...
  194. U.S. Trade with the Caribbean Basin July 2001, 2002 (millions of US$) ...
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  196. Some 90,000 laid-off workers from the sugar sector will begin attending school, to up...
  197. Nearly two years after Panama took control of its famous canal, it is launching new r...
  198. Almost all of the 1,000 workers furloughed from HOVENSA on Sept. 13 are back at work ...
  199. An investment company is seeking Government's permission to construct a hotel and res...