1.   The relative impact of AIDS in these two Caribbean territories was attributed to the important role of international tourism in their respective economies.

2.   The government said that it had repeatedly invited representatives of the group to visit the Caribbean territory, but that the invitation had been ignored.

3.   Police in the Caribbean territory said they have turned up few clues.

4.   A U.S. Virgin Islands businessman on Wednesday withdrew his offer to help bail the Caribbean territory out of debt in exchange for tax breaks.

5.   Authorities said the migrants, all men, reported they paid to be smuggled to the Caribbean territory.

6.   Bermuda, a mid-Atlantic British territory, has not participated in the talks with the Caribbean territories.

7.   Britain has scrapped laws making homosexuality a crime in its five Caribbean territories, acting after legislatures refused to do so.

8.   But the Virgin Islands received a special waiver after Hurricane Marilyn hit, leveling hotels and causing millions of dollars in damage across the Caribbean territory, he said.

9.   Coming from all corners of France, even Caribbean territories, the general practitioners were joined by dentists, gynecologists, nurses, ambulance drivers and pharmacists.

10.   Governors of the Caribbean dependent territories normally are reassigned approximately every four years.