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1. Movie review: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: 4’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... any safe harbor, Disney decreed that the latest installment of its "Pirates of the Caribbean" series should return to home waters. So the new chapter "PotC: On Stranger Tides," recalls its heritage as ...

2. Movie review: ‘The First Grader’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... must wear the same uniform. He finally finds a sympathetic listener in the young principal, Jane Obinchu (British actress Naomie Harris, from “Pirates of the Caribbean) who lets him join the class. She ...

3. Lauryn Hill plays tribute to Bob Marley on 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon'
(Entertainment/Movies)

... born in January 2008. Media reports placed Hill living in both the Caribbean and an upscale hotel in Miami during 1998, but today she has returned to her Garden State roots where she has lived a quiet ...

4. Restaurants at the Jersey shore celebrate Earth Day
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Earth Day event will feature certified organic wines from Colchagua Valley, Chile and Mendoza,Argentina. The wines will be paired with delicious international bites that include Caribbean Jerked Shrimp, ...

5. Newark high school student Shauna-Kaye Williams identified as drowning victim in California hotel
(N.J./State)

... that Williams and a friend snuck out of their room and headed for the hotel jacuzzi, then the pool. Her mother lives in Jamaica, and is on the way here from the Caribbean to help make funeral arrangements. ...

6. El Chupacabra debunked by author
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... spikes down its back, long, thin arms and legs, and an alienlike oblong head with red or black eyes. Reports of similar creatures began popping up throughout the Caribbean, in Latin America, Mexico and ...

7. Did Wyclef Jean fake his gunshot injury in Haiti?
(Entertainment/Movies)

... rejected Jean’s bid for the Caribbean nation’s presidential candidacy because he did not meet the residency requirement of having lived in Haiti for five years before the November 28 election. According ...

8. NTSB: Tugboat pilot was on cell phone prior to deadly duck boat crash
(U.S./Nation)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The National Transportation Safety Board has disclosed new findings in reference to July 7, 2010 accident involving the Caribbean Sea tugboat that crashed into ...

9. N.J. Health Commissioner: Foreign-born population is healthier than native-born
(Health/Healthquest)

... Guam or the U.S. Virgin Islands, regardless of citizenship status. About 45 percent of New Jersey’s foreign-born are from Latin America and the Caribbean, 31 percent are from Asia, 18 percent from Europe ...

10. Caitlin Burke solves ‘Wheel of Fortune’ puzzle with just one letter (VIDEO)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... a trip to the Caribbean for her good guess. The vacation at spa resort in Grenada is reportedly worth around $6,500. Sajak was stunned. "Is it just me or was that the most amazing solve we've ever had?" ...

11. Summit Wine and Food Festival is a keeper
(Entertainment/Movies)

... with classes on Chilean wines, Latin American Malbec and Carmenere, and how to mix Caribbean cocktails such as a Mojito. For a late lunch bite, we joined the "cooking for diabetics" demonstration of ...

12. ‘The Social Network’ is a rousing success (with movie trailer)
(Entertainment/Movies)

... ad — with a Caribbean-theme party at Zuckerberg's Jewish fraternity house, which looks like the tacky affair you'd expect in a high-school gymnasium. There's not a lot of talk about Zuckerberg's being ...

13. Wyclef Jean hospitalized in New Jersey
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Caribbean nation's eight-member provisional electoral council left more than a dozen candidates, including Jean, off the ballot. Jean, who was born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti and raised in New York ...

14. Similac baby formula recall has parents seeking answers
(Health/Healthquest)

... which stands to cost the company approximately $100 million in sales, affects powder products offered in 8, 12.4 and 12.9 ounce cans in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and some Caribbean nations. The bugs ...

15. ‘Takers’ (with trailer) — A movie review
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  While planning the inevitable last big score, Idris' Jennings also is trying to take care of his addict sister Naomi, the estimable Marianne Jean-Baptiste. They are Caribbean immigrants who want to return ...

16. All eyes are on Hurricane Igor
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... officials to issue a tropical storm warning for parts of the Cape Verde Islands on Sunday. According to businessweek.com, in the Caribbean, an unnamed cluster of storms was moving in the direction of ...

17. Swimming with sharks, New Jersey diver faces her fears
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the movement of prey, accidents can happen, Masone said, even among usually docile Caribbean reef sharks. Some other sharks need to be approached even more cautiously, if at all, she said. "Off South ...

18. New Jersey’s Wyclef Jean won’t get to be Haiti’s president
(World/International)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Singer Wyclef Jean's high-profile bid for Haiti's presidency ended after election officials on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation disqualified his candidacy. ...

19. Wyclef Jean pondering run for president of Haiti
(Entertainment/Movies)

... family said Monday. There have been rumors for some time the Haitian-born entertainer might enter the 2010 presidential contest, ever since his 2007 appointment as ambassador-at-large for the Caribbean ...

20. Bill Clinton to appear in Atlantic City on Friday night
(N.J./State)

... been keeping busy with other philanthropic ventures, including his work as the co-chair of the Interim Haiti Reconstruction Commission, which is overseeing the rebuilding of the poor Caribbean nation in ...