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A 54-year-old Swedish man is currently in custody on the Caribbean island of Martinique after French customs seized 1.4 tonnes of cocaine on his boat estimated to be worth about 800 million kronor ($109.51 million).
On June 4th, French customs seized a sailboat lying 40 nautical miles from island of Martinique in the West Indies. On the boat, customs officials found 1.4 tonnes of cocaine hidden among a number of jute sacks, Dagens Nyheter reported on Wednesday.
The cocaine seizure is the largest ever made in France. According to French customs, there are both Swedish and Spanish connections to the seizure, which was intended to be sold on the European market. The boat belongs to the man, who has been detained in Martinique since June 6th, according to DN.A 54-year-old Swedish man is currently in custody on the Caribbean island of... more
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Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique are not just about demands for lower prices and higher wages: For demonstrators they are no less than a battle against the vestiges of slavery.
Afro-Caribbean islanders — most of whose forbears toiled in the sugarcane fields under the yoke of slavery more than 160 years ago — not only resent France's handling of the global economic crisis, they have long resented that slaveholders' descendants control the economy on both islands.Protests that have nearly shut down the French Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and... more
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Colonized by France in 1635, the island has subsequently remained a French possession except for three brief periods of foreign occupation.
Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, having a land area of 1,128 km². It is an overseas department of France.
As with the other overseas departments, Martinique is also one of the 26 regions of France (being an overseas region) and an integral part of the Republic.
As part of France, Martinique is part of the European Union, and its currency is the euro.
Its official language is French, although almost all of its inhabitants also speak Antillean Creole (Créole Martiniquais).
Martinique is pictured on all euro banknotes, on the reverse at the bottom of each note, right of the Greek ΕΥΡΩ (EURO) next to the denomination. Colonized by France in 1635, the island has subsequently remained a French possession... more
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The 7.3 magnitude earthquake which rocked much of the Caribbean yesterday afternoon is said to be the largest recorded in the region in historic times.
According to the UWI Seismic Research unit, "The event was reported as widely felt throughout most of the Caribbean from Jamaica to Guyana."
Some islanders reported feeling tremors lasting up to a minute.
According to the BBC Caribbean website, "French police said it caused buildings to collapse in Martinique and Guadeloupe."
In Barbados, the phone system was briefly affected, while in St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Dominica there was said to be minor structural damage and/or broken furniture.
Damage assessment is still being carried out on other islands.
Initial reports indicate there were no casualties as a result of the quake.
However officials have said that a British citizen died of a heart attack in Martinique during the quake.
"There are no threats of a tsunami from this event."
CNN has reported that "shaking from the quake was picked up by a seismograph in California, which registered a magnitude 6.0 quake near Chico, California. But seismologists found no quake had occurred in California -- the instrument was reacting to reverberations from the Martinique quake."The 7.3 magnitude earthquake which rocked much of the Caribbean yesterday afternoon is... more
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