51.   Controlling the insects is difficult in Singapore, a tropical island which is regularly drenched by monsoon rains.

52.   Drug lords view the tropical islands as ideal transshipment points to lucrative cocaine and heroin markets in North America and Europe, Caribbean experts and law enforcement authorities say.

53.   Drug lords view the tropical islands as ideal transshipment points to lucrative cocaine and heroin markets in North America and Europe.

54.   During the two-hour finale, Hatch edged out three rival castaways on the tropical island that served as the setting for this game-show hit.

55.   During the go-go days when the stock market expanded at breakneck speed, analysts from foreign brokerages entertained their clients with helicopter rides to tropical island resorts.

56.   Economic slump crimps rowdy nightlife on a tropical island known for drugs, gangsters and the sex trade.

57.   Drug lords view the tropical islands as ideal shipment points to lucrative cocaine and heroin markets in North America and Europe, Caribbean experts and law enforcement authorities say.

58.   Fatal shootings are rare in Singapore, an affluent tropical island nation and popular tourist spot known for its safe streets and strict law enforcement.

59.   For the Malaysian stepping out of the plane at the Pointe-a-Pitre airport, however, one tropical island looks very much like another.

60.   For the vacationers, mostly from Europe and the United States, the tropical island paradise is more like a Third World backwater.