| http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSN3044634120090702 - The Caribbean's
small island states ride out hurricanes year after year, but
they are fighting to stay afloat in a global economic storm
that is battering rich and poor nations alike.
Tiny nations like twin-island St. Kitts and Nevis, a short
chain of lush green volcanic cones set in an azure sea, have
felt the shocks of the downturn and credit crunch as keenly as
the winds and seas that lash them every summer.
Their high dependence on tourism, remittances, investment
flows, imports and commodity prices makes than all the more
vulnerable to recent worldwide economic tremors that have
shaken giants like the United States and China.
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