Tag: Caribbean
Tommy Gainey shoots 65, leads PGA Tour’s Puerto Rico Open
RIO GRANDE, Puerto Rico — Tommy Gainey birdied five of the last seven holes at breezy Grand Reserve for a 7-under 65 and the...
Braves rookie CF Pache banking on postseason in bid to start
For a 22-year-old rookie who has had only four regular-season at-bats, Cristian Pache has good reason to look comfortable with Atlanta Braves starters in...
Haiti’s president: despite coup attempts he backs democracy
UNITED NATIONS — Haiti’s president blamed powerful oligarchs on Monday for seven attempts in his four-year term to overthrow Haiti’s democratic system, most recently...
PGA Tour gets early Florida start, Sorenstam back on LPGA
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Efrain Álvarez on US, Mexico rosters for Olympic qualifying
MIAMI — Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Efrain Álvarez is on the 48-man preliminary roster for both the United States and Mexico for the Olympic...
USA Basketball ends AmeriCup prelims 6-0, tops Mexico 96-75
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — This team that USA Basketball assembled for its final two FIBA AmeriCup qualifying games knew it would be together...
French Caribbean fights to keep pesticide case alive
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Agricultural workers who have long sought compensation for contamination from a pesticide banned in France but used in the...
International court finds Jamaica violated rights of gays
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An international tribunal has found that Jamaica’s government violated the rights of a gay man and a lesbian, according...
USA Basketball called Isaiah Thomas, who hopes NBA does next
There was a day last spring when Isaiah Thomas noticed he could lift his leg without any pain. That hadn’t happened in years.
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3 years’ probation issued in Puerto Rico cruise ship death
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A grandfather who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the fall of his young granddaughter from an 11th-story window...