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[email protected] [email protected] W e cover your world Vol. 19 No. 9 Jamaica: 654-7282 THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING NEWS MAGAZINE Caribana and Crop Over are over and thousands of revelers are wish- ing they were back in the fete. The carnival “wining” season is here, but if we do not vote how we party, there will instead be a lot of whining, page 4. Rising fuel prices, which affect travel to the Caribbean, ~ Vivian Blake, one of the Caribbean’s most plus attracting notorious criminal masterminds, who United more African States law enforcement claimed orchestrated a Americans to vicious gang linked to murders, racketeering, the region as drugs and weapons trafficking, is in line for visitors and investors, were among the early release from a U.S. prison, page 7. issues discussed by Barbados’s Prime Minister David Thompson during a recent visit to the U.S., page 9. RUN FOR GLORY Sports Illustrated, a top magazine in the United States, is predicting that Caribbean athletes including, from left, Veronica Campbell- Actor and classical singer, 23- year-old Jamaican-born Brown, Usain Bolt and Andrew Clark, was pro- Kerron Stewart, will claimed grand champion per- win medals at the former last month at the 12th Olympic Games this staging of the World Champion of Performing Arts (WCOPA) at month in China, the Westin Bonaventure Hotel page 22.