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The Carib Theatre, also known as the Carib 5, is a cinema in northern Kingston, Jamaica. Opened in 1938, it has been owned and operated by the Palace Amusement Company since ca. 1939. The Carib was the largest and highest-grossing theatre in the West Indies, and was once Jamaica's largest building.
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [15] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
The West Indies cricket team is one of the full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC). They are the joint most successful team along with England and India, having won two titles in 2012 and 2016. [1] [2] The team has appeared in every edition of the tournament, and also have been hosts of the 2010 and 2024 editions. [3]
[13] [a] In July 2021, the firm announced a 99-year extension of its stand sponsorship at Crewe. [15] For Crewe's 2024 EFL League Two play-off final at Wembley, the company offered free 99 ice creams from a Whitby Morrison ice cream van at the end of Wembley's Olympic Way. [12] The company also sponsors a stand at nearby Nantwich Town's Weaver ...
BWIA West Indies Airways Limited, known locally as "Bee-Wee" and previously as British West Indian Airways and BWIA International Airways, [2] was the flag carrier of Trinidad and Tobago. At the end of operations, BWIA was the largest airline operating out of the Caribbean , with direct service to the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
The remainder of the Caribbean Regiment departed Bermuda aboard HMT Highland Monarch for the West Indies (the ship, which also carried other British armed forces personnel returning to their homes, then continued on to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where it collected the crew of the Graf Spee and other Germans for repatriation to Germany), [10 ...
The West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies cricket team are made up of representatives from 15 mainly English-speaking countries in the Caribbean, which are: Anguilla [n 1] [n 2] Antigua and Barbuda [n 2] Barbados British Virgin Islands [n 1] [n 2] Dominica [n 3] Grenada [n 3] Guyana Jamaica Montserrat [n 1] [n 2]
The West Indies cricket team, nicknamed The Windies, [10] is a men's cricket team representing the West Indies—a group of mainly English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean region—and administered by Cricket West Indies. The players on this composite team are selected from a chain of fifteen Caribbean nation-states and ...