http://www.mail.com/people/122048-david-mcfadden.html Mail.com - the best personalized free web-based Email en en http://sec-s.uicdn.com/mail.com/2.28/img/mailcom_logo_rss.png http://www.mail.com/people/122048-david-mcfadden.html http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092548-caribbean-talks-conservation-bransons-island.html NECKER ISLAND, British Virgin Islands (AP) — Surrounded by a turquoise sea and a menagerie of exotic animals on a billionaire's private island, political and business leaders gathered Friday to back an initiative aimed at expanding protection for the Caribbean's imperiled coasts and waters. The "Caribbean Challenge" calls for special protected zones along... Sat, 18 May 2013 01:15:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2092548-caribbean-talks-conservation-bransons-island.html 2013-05-18T01:15:14Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html TELESCOPE, Grenada (AP) — The old coastal road in this fishing village at the eastern edge of Grenada sits under a couple of feet of murky saltwater, which regularly surges past a hastily-erected breakwater of truck tires and bundles of driftwood intended to hold back the Atlantic Ocean. For Desmond Augustin and other fishermen living along the shorelines... Tue, 07 May 2013 18:23:53 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/2069034-encroaching-sea-threat-caribbean.html 2013-05-07T18:23:53Z http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2035586-trinidad-pm-jack-warner-quits-cabinet-post.html PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Ex-world soccer powerbroker Jack Warner resigned as national security minister of Trinidad & Tobago some 48 hours after a regional soccer group's ethics panel accused him and another top former official of enriching themselves through fraud. In a brief statement Sunday night, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said that W... Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:13:04 GMT http://www.mail.com/sports/other/2035586-trinidad-pm-jack-warner-quits-cabinet-post.html 2013-04-22T02:13:04Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989504-caribbean-nations-search-oil-amid-spill-fears.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The turquoise waters that have long brought treasure seekers to the Caribbean now are drawing a new kind of explorer as countries across the region increasingly open their seas to oil exploration. From the Bahamas and Cuba down to Aruba and Suriname, international oil companies are lining up to locate potentially rich offshore dep... Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:50:37 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1989504-caribbean-nations-search-oil-amid-spill-fears.html 2013-03-31T16:50:37Z http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1966606-jamaica-frets-slowdown-returning-islanders.html MANDEVILLE, Jamaica (AP) — In this affluent town in Jamaica's cool, mountainous interior, Jasmine Pottinger has realized the dream that kept her going while dealing with racism, culture shock and other challenges during almost four decades of working in drizzly London, a city where she never felt entirely accepted. The 73-year-old retired nurse and her hu... Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:20:13 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/finance/1966606-jamaica-frets-slowdown-returning-islanders.html 2013-03-20T07:20:13Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1955346-bill-intended-to-curb-jamaica-lottery-scams.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican officials said Thursday that they are hopeful new legislation will finally result in a stream of convictions and lengthy sentences for fraudsters behind a multimillion-dollar lottery scam that has swindled mostly elderly Americans out of their retirement savings for years. National Security Minister Peter Bunting told rep... Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:47:03 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1955346-bill-intended-to-curb-jamaica-lottery-scams.html 2013-03-14T22:47:03Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1936822-venezuela-petro-allies-nervous-chavezs-death.html HAVANA (AP) — Cubans remember the so-called Special Period of the 1990s, when the Soviet Union's sudden collapse plunged the island into years of economic depression, with cars and buses disappearing from the streets for lack of fuel and rolling blackouts leaving the capital in darkness. Now Cubans fear a return of hard times following the death of Venezu... Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:39:47 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1936822-venezuela-petro-allies-nervous-chavezs-death.html 2013-03-06T23:39:47Z http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1917272-coral-comeback-reef-seeding-caribbean.html ORACABESSA BAY, Jamaica (AP) — Mats of algae and seaweed have shrouded the once thick coral in shallow reefs off Jamaica's north coast. Warm ocean waters have bleached out the coral, and in a cascade of ecological decline, the sea urchins and plant-eating reef fish have mostly vanished, replaced by snails and worms that bore through coral skeletons. Now, ... Tue, 26 Feb 2013 20:57:14 GMT http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/1917272-coral-comeback-reef-seeding-caribbean.html 2013-02-26T20:57:14Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1886652-struggling-caribbean-islands-selling-citizenship.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hadi Mezawi has never set foot on the Caribbean island of Dominica, has never seen its rainforests or black-sand beaches. But he's one of its newest citizens. Without leaving his home in the United Arab Emirates, the Palestinian man recently received a brand new Dominican passport after sending a roughly $100,000 contribution to t... Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:24:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1886652-struggling-caribbean-islands-selling-citizenship.html 2013-02-12T18:24:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1873144-fervent-fans-mark-marleys-birthday-jamaica.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Hundreds of tourists joined dreadlocked Rastafarian priests, leading reggae musicians and some of Bob Marley's relatives at the late reggae icon's old house in Jamaica to mark the 68th anniversary of his birth Wednesday. Since his death from cancer in 1981 at age 36, Marley has become more than Jamaica's most famous musical export... Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:20:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1873144-fervent-fans-mark-marleys-birthday-jamaica.html 2013-02-06T23:20:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1868596-jamaica-breaks-ground-rare-earth-project.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaican and Japanese officials on Monday launched a pilot project designed to investigate whether rare-earth elements can be commercially extracted from the island's bauxite waste. Researchers with Japan's Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd. believe they have found high concentrations of rare-earth elements in the island's red mud, a byp... Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:41:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1868596-jamaica-breaks-ground-rare-earth-project.html 2013-02-04T22:41:00Z http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1823396-official-rare-earth-elements-jamaicas-red-mud.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the Caribbean island's top mining official said Tuesday. Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said Japanese researchers believe they have f... Tue, 15 Jan 2013 23:13:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/business/economy/1823396-official-rare-earth-elements-jamaicas-red-mud.html 2013-01-15T23:13:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758290-cayman-islands-leader-arrested-corruption-case.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — The leader of the Cayman Islands' government was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of theft, abuse of office and breach of trust in the famed Caribbean tax haven. Premier McKeeva Bush was detained Tuesday morning at his home in the West Bay section of Grand Cayman island by officers from the financial unit of the Royal Cayman Islands ... Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:39:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/politics/1758290-cayman-islands-leader-arrested-corruption-case.html 2012-12-11T22:39:00Z http://www.mail.com/news/world/1752940-long-disdain-jamaica-1st-patois-bible.html KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — When English teacher Faith Linton first proposed translating the Bible into Jamaica's patois tongue in the late 1950s, most people who heard the idea shook their heads. Some on the deeply Christian island believed it was sacrilegious. Others opposed it because the unique mixture of English and West African languages was widely dis... Sat, 08 Dec 2012 15:08:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/news/world/1752940-long-disdain-jamaica-1st-patois-bible.html 2012-12-08T15:08:00Z http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1728868-rastafarianism-grows-jamaica-long-disdain.html BULL BAY, Jamaica (AP) — The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica's southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the sprawling Bobo Ashanti commune on an isolated hilltop, a few women and about 200 dreadlocked men with flowing robes and tightly wrapped turbans prayed, faste... Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:43:00 GMT http://www.mail.com/entertainment/music/1728868-rastafarianism-grows-jamaica-long-disdain.html 2012-11-28T16:43:00Z