21.  Cuba girded for a flood of visitors this week to see Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to the Caribbean nation.

22.  Cuba was the first Caribbean nation to play baseball.

23.  DeMint fought to make the Caribbean nations buy higher value-added fabrics before turning them into clothing for export.

24.  Details vary from place to place, but biologists say that all Caribbean nations share in the decades-old decline of one of their prized natural resources.

25.  Foyle was born on Canouan, a speck of an island in the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

26.  He added that economic setbacks have left Caribbean nations particularly vulnerable to the drug trade.

27.  He also says that all the students provided their names when they applied for licenses to travel to the Caribbean nation.

28.  If the American military actually invades the Caribbean nation, Haiti poses none of those problems.

29.  In recent years, the United States has negotiated so-called shiprider agreements with Caribbean nations.

30.  In the last generation only a smattering of small Caribbean nations, all former British colonies, can claim moderately clean records of police probity.