Fears of a dev­as­tat­ing tsuna­mi fad­ed Wednes­day for the U.S. and Japan af­ter one of the strongest earth­quakes ever record­ed struck off a sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed Russ­ian penin­su­la, but new alerts along South Amer­i­ca’s Pa­cif­ic coast forced evac­u­a­tions and closed beach­es.

The Cari­com Pri­vate Sec­tor Or­gan­i­sa­tion (CP­SO) has an­nounced that Price­wa­ter­house­C­oop­ers (PwC) has been award­ed the con­sul­tan­cy for the “study to ar­tic­u­late fea­si­ble mod­els to ef­fect a re­gion­al stock ex­change among par­tic­i­pat­ing states of the Cari­com Sin­gle Mar­ket and Econ­o­my (CSME).”

Acad­e­my Ea­gles of Turks and Caicos, and Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic's Mo­ca FC sealed their place in the semi­fi­nals of the the Swiss-style Caribbean Foot­ball Union 24-team Club Shield com­pe­ti­tion as the win­ners of Groups A and B, re­spec­tive­ly on Mon­day.

Now, I’m not say­ing rain can’t be dan­ger­ous—it can be. But so is cross­ing the high­way, and peo­ple still do that every day. Hik­ing in the rain just means you have to be smart. That’s all. Hike Club—that’s our lit­tle crew of na­ture-lov­ing fel­las and gyals—knows when and where to go, wet or dry. Over the years, we’ve learned which trails are best for sun, and which ones come alive when the rain falls.

In small economies such as ours in the Caribbean, there are bound to be anom­alies in the for­mal arrange­ments de­signed to achieve in­dus­tri­al peace, and en­su­ing wealth gen­er­a­tion, in­volv­ing work­ers, em­ploy­ers, and the state.