Last year, after Trujillo had been cited for numerous aggressions in the Caribbean, the United States and many other members of the Organization of American States broke diplomatic relations with him.

The American Registry for Internet Numbers ( ARIN ) is the Regional Internet Registry ( RIR ) for Canada, many Caribbean and North Atlantic islands, and the United States.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

They concluded that it could " mislead the viewer as to the true nature of the product " as the advert contained so many pieces of Caribbean imagery, one might conclude it came from Cuba.

In many island nations such as those of the Mediterranean, South Pacific and Caribbean, tourism is central to the economy.

Although many Caribbean islands were initially populated by Amerindian groups such as the Arawaks, Tainos, and Caribs, no evidence of this has been found in the Cayman Islands.

Slavery was less common on the Cayman Islands than in many other parts of the Caribbean, resulting in a more even division of African and European ancestry.

It is part of many ecoregions, including Costa Rican seasonal moist forests, Bocas del Toro-San Bastimentos Island-San Blas mangroves, Mosquitia-Nicaraguan Caribbean Coast mangroves, Southern Dry Pacific Coast mangroves, Central American dry forests, and Talamancan montane forests.

Because of its voracious appetite, the cane toad has been introduced to many regions of the Pacific and the Caribbean islands as a method of agricultural pest control.

There are introduced populations in Australia, Florida, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Ogasawara, Ishigaki Island and the Daitō Islands of Japan, most Caribbean islands, Fiji and many other Pacific islands, including Hawaii.

The Caribbean coastline has many gulfs and bays: the Gulf of Gonâve, Gulf of Venezuela, Gulf of Darién, Golfo de los Mosquitos, Gulf of Paria and Gulf of Honduras.

The Caribbean Sea offshore of the island of Dominica is home to many cetaceans.

The music and dance forms of the African diaspora, including African American music and many Caribbean genres like soca, calypso and Zouk ; and Latin American music genres like the samba, rumba, salsa ; and other clave ( rhythm )- based genres, were founded to varying degrees on the music of African slaves, which has in turn influenced African popular music.

In 1684 the French and Spanish signed the Treaty of Ratisbon that included provisions to suppress the actions of the Caribbean privateers, which effectively ended the era of the buccaneers on Tortuga, many being employed by the French Crown to hunt down any of their former comrades who preferred to turn outright pirate.

The island was a major center of Caribbean piracy during the 17th century and has become famous in many works of literature and film.

During the period leading up to the conquest of Honduras by Pedro de Alvarado, many indigenous people along the north coast of Honduras were captured and taken as slaves to work on Spain's Caribbean plantations.

Initially developed to facilitate payments within the European Union, it has now also been implemented by most European countries and many other countries, especially in the Middle East and in the Caribbean.

A fundamental rhythmic figure heard in Gottschalk's compositions such as " Souvenirs From Havana " ( 1859 ), many different slave musics of the Caribbean, as well as the bamboula, and other Afro-Caribbean folk dances performed in New Orleans Congo Square, is the three-stroke pattern known in Cuban music as tresillo.

During this time there were many racial tensions, and Jamaica had one of the highest instances of slave uprisings of any Caribbean island.

There are many banks such as Century National Bank, National Commercial Bank, Pan Caribbean Bank, Scotia-Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and First Global Bank.

St. Kitts and Nevis also maintains diplomatic relations with the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Cuba and South Korea, as well as with many Latin American countries and neighboring Eastern Caribbean states.

The steep terrain also accentuates the many rivers that flow from central St. Lucia to the Caribbean.

Over 10 million captured Africans were shipped to the Caribbean Islands and the Americas and many more died during the raids, the long marches to the coast and on the infamous middle passage due to the inhumane conditions in slave ships.

Tourism is a major and growing source of income to the island, although the number and density of resorts is less than on many other Caribbean islands.

country code-1-284 ; connected via submarine cable to Bermuda ; the East Caribbean Fiber System ( ECFS ) submarine cable provides connectivity to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean ( 2007 )

WGN-TV, which is owned by the Tribune Company, is carried with some programming differences, as " WGN America " on cable and satellite TV nationwide and in parts of the Caribbean.

connected to the ARCOS ( America's Region Caribbean Optical-ring System ); 1 coaxial submarine cable ; satellite earth station-1 ; Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean )

* International: country code-51 ; the South America-1 ( SAm1 ) and Pan American ( PAN-AM ) submarine cable systems provide links to parts of Central and South America, the Caribbean, and US ; satellite earth stations-2 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean )

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submarine cable systems provide connectivity to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US ; satellite earth stations-1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) and 1 PanAmSat ; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network

international: landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System ( ARCOS-1 ) fiber-optic submarine cable the provides links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US ; satellite Earth stations-2 ( 2007 )

:::* 1 ) the East Caribbean Fiber System ( ECFS ) submarine cable with links to 13 other islands in the eastern Caribbean extending from the British Virgin Islands to Trinidad ;

international: international dialing code-+ 501 ; landing point for the Americas Region Caribbean Ring System ( ARCOS-1 ) fiber-optic telecommunications submarine cable that provides links to South and Central America, parts of the Caribbean, and the US ; satellite earth station-8 ( Intelsat-2, unknown-6 ) ( 2007 )

Since the mid-2000s, HLN has been available internationally on cable and satellite to viewers in parts of Asia, the Caribbean and South America.

In the Caribbean, CBLT is carried on cable systems in Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Kitts and Nevis, Barbados, Bermuda, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands and Jamaica.

Outside of Canada, Family is seen on some cable systems in the Caribbean:

The station is also available on most cable providers in the Caribbean.

During his term as Secretary of State, McClintock has spearheaded the Fortuño administration's proposal to develop a Caribbean Energy Grid in which all Caribbean and Central American islands and nations would interconnect via an underwater electric transmission cable in order to generate electric cost reductions to consumers throughout the region, contribute to renewable energy development and reduced dependence on oil, the fuel most used to generate electricity in Caribbean islands today.

After returning from his nature trip, in June 1956, Fleming became involved in a project with Henry Morgenthau, III to collaborate on a television series Commander Jamaica, centred in the Caribbean with the main character of James Gunn.

* Satellite television services are offered by DirecTV Caribbean.

* List of television stations in the Caribbean # Barbados

* List of the Caribbean television channels

Don Cholito would describe the inner workings of the Tubo Que Chupa in his television program whenever a hurricane approached the Caribbean Sea.

EIAS has been used in numerous film and television productions such as Piranha 3D, Alien Trespass, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Daddy Day Care, K-19: The Widowmaker, Gangs of New York, Austin Powers: Goldmember, Men In Black II, The Bourne Identity, Behind Enemy Lines, Time Machine, Ticker, JAG-Pilot Episode, Spawn, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Galaxy Quest, Mission to Mars, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Titan A. E., U-571, Dinosaur, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Terminator 2: Judgement Day-DVD Intro, Jungle Book 2, American President, Sleepers, Star Wars Special Edition, Empire Strikes Back Special Edition, Return of Jedi Special Edition, Bicentennial Man, Vertical Limit, Elf, Blade Trinity, and Lost In Space.

After the BBC channel B1 television service recommenced in 1946, distant reception reports were received from various parts of the world, including Italy, South Africa, India, the Middle East, North America and the Caribbean.

Jack Arthur Davenport ( born 1 March 1973 ) is an English actor, best known for his roles in the television series This Life, Coupling and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean series.

* Caribbean Broadcast Network, a television station in the British Virgin Islands

* In the television series version of Da Kink in My Hair hairstylist Starr chants to give herself strength which suspiciously sound like spells to some of the Caribbean clients of the West Indian hair salon.

In the television show The Jeffersons one of the characters is from the Caribbean island of " St. Norman ".

Along with a selection of friends, including Jodi ’ s former co-stars of the Channel 4 television show Hollyoaks, Kian and Jodi enjoyed time together at a Caribbean resort before tying the knot at Turtle Beach Great House.

Families could tune into the American Forces Caribbean Network ( AFCN ), the on-base AFRTS radio and television station's family-oriented shows or rig up an antenna for signals from St. Thomas or San Juan.

Although her main focus has been television, Kurtz has starred in several major Hollywood films including the Agatha Christie drama Caribbean Mystery in 1983, Dangerous Liaisons in 1988, its 1999 remake Cruel Intentions, as a lesbian, activist, in the acclaimed indie film Citizen Ruth, and perhaps most notably, alongside Jim Carrey in 1997's Liar Liar.

She made her first television appearance the next year, dancing in the Disney Channel special, Sebastian's Caribbean Jamboree.

The popular film Pirates of the Caribbean and the television series Lost used the software.