The word antilles is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in reference to the Antilles Islands, which is a region of islands in the Caribbean Sea. Example: "Many tourists enjoy traveling to the Antilles Islands in the Caribbean Sea to soak up the sun and escaping the cold winter weather."
Or maybe Worldbouquet (Antilles) raises $500m and lends it on to the British company—at an excessive rate of interest.
Fortuyn, in fact, was not on about race, but culture, specifically that of the Muslim Turks and Moroccans who (with people from the Dutch Antilles, Surinamese and some West Africans) make up 6% of the population.
In January they duped a close collaborator of Mr Bout's, Andrew Smulian, a Briton, into believing that three DEA agents, whom he met in Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, were really from the FARC.
The Netherlands Antilles' financial sector was trounced by America's decision in 1987 to terminate a tax treaty that had encouraged international lending to flow through the islands.
See articleThe Netherlands Antilles, a collection of five Caribbean islands, formally disbanded.
But such fiery talk cannot disguise the fact that both he and PDVSA are in a swamp of trouble.On February 7th Exxon announced that it had obtained interim court injunctions in the United States, Britain, the Netherlands and the Dutch Antilles preventing PDVSA from disposing of over $12 billion in assets.
The place briefly became an Antilles disco and then the biggest gay club in Paris.
Prices of goods such as yogurt or fresh beef are on average 34% higher, according to France-Antilles, a newspaper.A demand for higher pay to compensate set off the strikes in Guadeloupe.
Things that were meant to be ready in 2007 the start-up of the world's biggest particle accelerator at CERN near Geneva, the reopening of the Plaza hotel in New York, the disbanding of the Netherlands Antilles will in fact happen in 2008.Third, and most important, some of the main events of 2007 turned out (as they do every year) to be ones that were completely off our radar screen.
So its marathon runner, Guor Marial, will have to compete under the five rings of the Olympic flag at this year's games, together with three athletes from the Netherlands Antilles.
Aruba was formerly a part of the Netherlands Antilles.
