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| 10/28/2005 || PORT OF SPAIN HIT BY FIFTH BOMB BLAST | 0 | | PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A fifth bomb has exploded in Trinidad's capital, Port of Spain, the fifth in four months.
The blast went off sometime between 4:45 am and 10 am on Thursday on Henry Street next to an Ombudsman’s office and opposite one of the country’s popular entertainment centre locati...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || GOVERNMENT CRIME STRATEGY REVEALED | 0 | | ST GEORGE'S - Although there was a downward trend in reported crime from 1998 to 2001, there was an increase in 2002 over 2001. This was possibly due to the economic and psychological impacts that the events of September 11, 2001 had on countries worldwide and too increased confidence in the Royal G...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || TROPICAL STORM BETA FORMS OFF NICARAGUA | 0 | | MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Tropical Storm Beta formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season.
Beta is the season's 23rd tropical storm, the most since record keeping began in 1851. The disturbance formed Wednesday nigh...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || CANADIAN TRAVEL WRITER INTRIGUED BY CARRIACOU, SAN... | 0 | | By Paul Knowles
It began like a line from a Dickens novel: “I am your boatman; my name is Cuthbert Snagg.”
But this was not the Victorian era in England, it was last month, on an intriguing island named Carriacou. And Cuthbert was no fictional character –he is captain of a small boat, an exper...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || WINDIES GET READY | 0 | | BRISBANE, Australia (CMC) - With their players pushed beyond previously mediocre limits of fitness and endurance since arriving in Australia, the West Indies have an opportunity to test the value of all that hard work today when they face Queensland in a four-day match at Allan Border Field.
In t...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || ST KITTS-NEVIS INTRODUCES CARICOM PASSPORT | 0 | | ST. KITTS-NEVIS has become the third Caribbean Community (CARICOM) member state to bring the CARICOM passport into operation, making good on its promise to launch it before the end of the year.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said issuance of the document to citizens would begin on November 14.
...Read More >>> | | | 10/27/2005 || REGIONAL COUNTRIES AMONG HARDEST HIT BY BRAIN DRAI... | 0 | | A WORLD Bank study says that the Caribbean is among small developing countries that are losing a staggering number of their university educated workers to wealthy nations.
The study, released earlier this week, documents what is considered to be a disturbing pattern of 'brain drain' - the flight...Read More >>> | | | 10/26/2005 || QUESTION ON CWC APPOINTMENTS AS NEW DIRECTORS MEET... | 0 | | BRIDGETOWN - The newly-structured board of directors of "Cricket World Cup West Indies 2007" will meet in Port-of-Spain tomorrow with an update on latest arrangements for hosting the historic event among matters to be reviewed.
The meeting comes against the background of concerns expressed in wri...Read More >>> | | | 10/26/2005 || CIVIL RIGHTS PIONEER PARKS DEAD AT 92 | 0 | | DETROIT (AP) - Nearly 50 years ago, Rosa Parks made a simple decision that sparked a revolution. When a white man demanded she give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, the then 42-year-old seamstress said no.
At the time, she couldn't have known it would secure her a revered place in Ameri...Read More >>> | | | 10/25/2005 || SMALL QUAKE SHAKES GRENADA, TRINIDAD | 0 | | A small earthquake has shaken two Caribbean islands, officials said.
The 4.9 'quake happened on Monday morning and was felt in Trinidad and Grenada, the University of the West Indies Seismic Research Unit reported.
There were no reports of deaths, injuries or damage, said authorities.
The '...Read More >>> | | | 10/25/2005 || TWO CARIBBEAN TOURISM BODIES MERGE | 0 | | A HISTORIC agreement has been signed by the Caribbean Tourism Organisation (CTO) and the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA). The two organisations have pledged "full cooperation and collaboration between the public and private sectors of the Caribbean tourism industry in order for tourism development...Read More >>> | | | 10/24/2005 || CHINA DIGS IN FOR WORLD CUP MISSION | 0 | | An unlikely ally is helping out as Grenada gets ready for its place in the sun in 2007
THIRTEEN months after Hurricane Ivan devastated the National Stadium, as it did most of Grenada, the island’s principal ground is still little more than a heap of rubble and twisted corrugated iron.
The once...Read More >>> | | | 10/24/2005 || FARMING CAN BE SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS -GRENADA'S AGR... | 0 | | Guyana has the land and resources and with more persons being involved in agriculture the country could produce more food and become the food basket of the Caribbean, Grenada's Minister of Agriculture, Roland Bhola told the gathering at Anna Regina, Essequibo during the observance of World Food Day....Read More >>> | | | 10/24/2005 || CARIBBEAN OFFICIALS FEAR INCREASE IN HURRICANES CO... | 0 | | CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) -- Caribbean tourism officials are worried this year's record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season could scare away visitors who may falsely believe the entire region has been affected by the flurry of storms.
How to deal with the negative publicity surround...Read More >>> | | | 10/24/2005 || THOUSANDS RALLY AGAINST VIOLENT CRIME IN TRINIDAD | 0 | | PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Calling it a 'Death March', thousands of local residents of Trinidad and Tobago took to the streets of the capital Port of Spain on Saturday, in a peaceful but massive demonstration demanding that the government put an end to the country’s spiralling wave of kidnappings, mur...Read More >>> | | | 10/24/2005 || AUSSIES VOTE LARA 'MOST DANGEROUS' BATSMAN | 0 | | AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS have voted West Indies batting star Brian Lara the 'most dangerous' opposition batsman ahead of Indians Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, the Cricinfo web site reported yesterday.
Lara polled 55 per cent of the votes, while Tendulkar only got 25 per cent and Dravid 20 per ...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || GRENADIANS REFLECT ON THE FURY OF OCTOBER 19, 1983 | 0 | | ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: October 19, 1983 is a day Grenadians will never forget. It was then the Prime Minister of Grenada, Maurice Bishop, was shot dead by the armed forces at the Caribbean island's military headquarters in the capital St George's.
According to one witness, before he died Mr Bisho...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || CREOLE MUSIC GETS INTERNATIONAL BOOST | 0 | | ROSEAU, Dominica (October 20, 2005) – The Caribbean's vibrant Creole culture is going global, now that top international television network, Black Entertainment Television (BET) has agreed to shoot the 9th edition of the World Creole Music Festival, on the small island nation of Dominica October 28-...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || CARIBBEAN URGED TO CUT INTERNET COSTS | 0 | | GILLIAN MACINTYRE, permanent secretary in Trinidad's Ministry of Public Administration and Information, yesterday encouraged members of the Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) to work together to avoid discriminatory charges for Internet access from international careers.
"Essentially, our ...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || LARA CLIMBS TO NO 2 IN ICC RATINGS | 0 | | LONDON, England (CMC) - In spite of his failure to score heavily in the weekend's ICC Super Series test match, West Indies batsman Brian Lara climbed one place up to number two in the ICC world batting ratings this week.
Lara had scores of five and 36 in the World XI's crushing loss to Australia ...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || NY SENDS SEX OFFENDERS HOME | 0 | | The nationals of eight Caribbean countries are among 50 foreign-born New Yorkers who face deportation after being rounded up as part of a crackdown on sex offenders.
Those arrested were convicted of sex offences, including child molestation and rape - but remained free after receiving relatively ...Read More >>> | | | 10/21/2005 || BRAZILIAN DELEGATION VISITS GRENADA | 0 | | ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada: Deepening the level of cooperation between the Government of Grenada and the Federative Republic of Brazil was the focus of attention during a meeting on Wednesday, October 19, chaired by Mr. Richardson Andrews, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Agency for Reconstruction an...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || BISHOP'S MOTHER WANTS HIS BODY FOR BURIAL | 0 | | ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):
TWENTY-TWO YEARS after he was killed in a coup, the mother of slain Grenadian Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop, is still calling on the authorities to release her son's body to her for a proper burial.
"Every time I ask why can't I get a word about my son's body, the...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || TIMELINE: GRENADA | 0 | | 1498 - Christopher Columbus sights the islands, which he names Grenada after the Spanish city.
1650 - French settlers from Martinique establish a colony and found Saint George's, the present capital.
1783 - France cedes Grenada to Britain in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles; African ...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || HURRICANE WILMA "STRONGEST EVER" | 0 | | Hurricane Wilma, which has swelled into a dangerous Category Five storm, is the strongest hurricane ever recorded, the US National Hurricane Center says.
It says the storm's barometric pressure - a measure of its strength - was the lowest on record in the Atlantic basin.
Its winds of near 165m...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || GRENADA YOUTH ADDRESSES SPECIAL UN CONFERENCE ON V... | 0 | | ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Grenada’s panelist at the United Nations Special Conference on the "Protection of Children from Violence in Schools and Corporal Punishment” wants Governments in the region to speedily implement the latest recommendations from the United Nations Committee on the Children’s Righ...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || RUN CHASE ON FOR LARA | 0 | | KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) - West Indies cricket sponsor Digicel says it is "excited over batting star Brian Lara's run towards the world record aggregate in Test runs as he gets ready to tackle the formidable world champions Australia next month.
Already the holder of two batting world records - th...Read More >>> | | | 10/20/2005 || CARIBBEAN NATIONS FAILING CORRUPTION TEST | 0 | | A survey by an international anti-corruption watchdog shows the Caribbean needs to do more to address corruption.
The 2005 Corruption Perceptions Index was published by Germany-based Transparency International.
Of the eight Caribbean nations listed in the index, only one gets a score higher t...Read More >>> | | | 10/19/2005 || US EMBASSY WARNS OF VISA LOTTERY FRAUD | 0 | | BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Embassy of the United States of America to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean has released details of an email fraud purporting to offer “lottery winners” green cards upon payment of certain fees.
According to a press release, the scheme mimics the Diversity Immigrant V...Read More >>> | |
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