21.   Taiwan has diplomatic missions in five of the smaller eastern Caribbean states and Belize and currently underwrites several projects, including fisheries research.

22.   The Caribbean coastal state is a perennial beachhead for smuggling liquor and tobacco into Colombia.

23.   The death penalty issue has been widely discussed in the region since the Privy Council ruled in March that mandatory death sentences were unconstitutional in seven Caribbean states.

24.   The Caribbean states fear that any change will play havoc with economies that depend on bananas that are not competitive on the world market.

25.   The companies get federal tax incentives to establish twin plants in other Caribbean states, including the Dominican Republic.

26.   The move was resisted by a defiant bloc of African nations, Malaysia and some Caribbean states, and leaders agreed to wait for the report from the observers.

27.   The Senate version added the Caribbean states, fulfilling a commitment to give them parity with the benefits Mexico enjoys under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

28.   The students, from nine English-speaking Caribbean states, are mostly law enforcement, military and judicial officials.

29.   Though Caribbean states have the right to impose the death penalty, the council has the power to overrule such sentences, which it has done on occasion.

30.   Under the trade agreement, the Caribbean, with the exception of smaller eastern Caribbean states, would have to grant preferential treatment to Colombian goods after three years.