The conference was organized by the UNESCO Office for the Caribbean in Kingston and the University of the West Indies, in association with other agencies.

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After a one-year stay in the Caribbean, Sarah Stotzner wants to go to university and, if possible, return to Hoyerswerda.

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The UNESCO Kingston Cluster Office for the Caribbean announces the launch of the General History of the Caribbean Volume IV on 13 November 2012 at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica.

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In densely populated Haiti, the degradation of the environment has been so severe that only a handful of species are known for certain to still be viable in the country and even they are in trouble, said S. Blair Hedges, a biology professor at Pennsylvania State University who has studied frogs in the Caribbean since the 1980s.

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Prostate cancer research director John Masters, professor of experimental pathology at University College, London, said that men of Afro-Caribbean descent are three times more likely to develop prostate cancer than the average male, while those with a father or son who has had the disease is twice as likely to be diagnosed.

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One success he can prove: Ross University, the controversial medical and veterinary schools he founded in the Caribbean in 1979 and 1982, despite having no experience in the medical or education fields.

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