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12/1/2005 || BARBADOS' LEADER PUSHES TO REPLACE QUEEN AS HEAD O... 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP) - Barbados' prime minister yesterday urged his compatriots to make the country a republic, a move that would remove Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state. A referendum to change the constitution and make the head of state a Barbadian president will be held early next y...Read More >>>   12/1/2005 || IMF DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR TO VISIT ECCU REGION 0 WASHINGTON, USA: The Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Mr Agustín Carstens, will visit the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) region from December 5 to 9, 2005, for discussions with senior government officials on the economic performance and prospects for the re...Read More >>>   11/30/2005 || ELECTED OFFICIALS AND ADVOCACY GROUPS DENOUNCE BUS... 0 Nothing new, no help, no hope for the undocumented already in the country. That's the bottom line as Caribbean elected officials and immigration advocates react to what U.S. President George Bush is hailing as "comprehensive immigration reform" for the country, the millions of undocumented immigr...Read More >>>   11/30/2005 || A DIFFERENT KIND OF CARIBBEAN CRUISING 0 LONDON -- A new concept in cruising the Caribbean has arrived in the form of a ship called easyCruiseOne. The ship's flexible weeklong itineraries offer a different port of call each day. Passengers may join or leave the cruise from any stop, as long as they stay on board for at least two nights...Read More >>>   11/30/2005 || ANOTHER TROPICAL STORM FORMS ON EVE OF HURRICANE S... 0 MIAMI, USA (AFP): Epsilon, the 26th Atlantic tropical storm of the year, formed Tuesday, one day short of the official conclusion of a record-breaking hurricane season, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Epsilon formed in the central Atlantic Ocean, about 845 miles east of Bermuda a...Read More >>>   11/29/2005 || GRENADA WINS PRAISE AT WORLD TRAVEL MARKET (WTM) 2... 0 There was so much to celebrate at this year's WTM. The week commenced with an oversubscribed ‘Spice up your Life’ event which attracted over 150 travel industry and media luminaries to the Sunborn Yacht Hotel, organized by the UK team. Senator, the Hon Brenda Hood, Minister of Tourism welcomed th...Read More >>>   11/29/2005 || GRENADA REPRESENTED AT GUADELOUPE TRIATHLON 0 ST GEORGE'S - Two local triathletes, Clare Morrall and Brooke Henderson, represented Grenada in the 13th annual Karukera triathlon on the French Caribbean island Guadeloupe on Sunday, November 20th. About 200 competitors took part in the triathlon completing either a sprint distance or Olympic di...Read More >>>   11/29/2005 || THE EUROPEAN UNION (EU) AGREES ON NEW BANANA TARIF... 0 THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has agreed to alter for the fourth time this year, its plans to introduce a single import tariff for bananas even as it braces itself for more criticisms from Caribbean and Latin American banana producers. The new tariff system which the EU reached with the World Trade Or...Read More >>>   11/29/2005 || AUSTRALIA BEAT WEST INDIES BY SEVEN WICKETS TO SWE... 0 ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP): Australia made a clean sweep of their three match series against the West Indies with a seven-wicket victory over the tourists in the final cricket Test at Adelaide Oval on Tuesday. The Australians mopped up the required runs at 182 for three 16 minutes after lunch on t...Read More >>>   11/28/2005 || FAO TO HELP GRENADA'S FARMERS 0 ST GEORGE'S - More technical help will be soon here to help Grenada’s farmers. This news follows a meeting between Prime Minister Dr. The Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell and Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation Dr. Jacques Diouf. Dr. Diouf and Prime Minister discussed several issues...Read More >>>   11/28/2005 || LARA HAILS RECORD AS HIS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT 0 BRIAN LARA said beating Allan Border's world record for the most Test runs was the highlight of his career. The West Indian batsman scored a brilliant 226 in the third Test against Australia on Saturday to lift his career run tally to 11,187, eclipsing Border's previous record of 11,174. Lara...Read More >>>   11/28/2005 || "SUGAR DEAL NOT ENOUGH"--CARIBBEAN LEADERS 0 CARIBBEAN LEADERS on Saturday appealed for compen-sation for the region's sugar producers, facing heavy losses as a result of amendments to the European Union's (EU) sugar regime. This call followed a meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair which took place against the backdrop of an anno...Read More >>>   11/28/2005 || JAMAICA, CAYMAN IN VISA ROW 0 The Jamaica government has retaliated against the Cayman Islands for its imposition of a visa requirement on visiting Jamaicans. The Jamaican foreign ministry said that the new visa restrictions on Caymanians would come into effect from December 1. The move comes one month after the authorit...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || CANUTE CALISTE: RENOWNED GRENADIAN PAINTER DIES 0 Few internationally celebrated artists can have spent their lives working in humbler surroundings than the naive painter Canute Caliste, whose studio was a lean-to shack in the backyard of his wooden house on the tiny Caribbean island of Carriacou, off the coast of Grenada. Surrounded by chickens...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || REGION LOSES IN EU SUGAR CUTS 1 Caribbean sugar producers are outraged at the European Union's decision to slash sugar prices in an overhaul of its sugar subsidy regime. The EU, which has long been offering sugar prices to the region’s farmers at preferential rates said on Thursday that it will cut prices by 36 percent. They...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || FIRST TICKETS FOR 2007 WORLD CUP AVAILABLE IN MAY 0 The 800,000 tickets for the 2007 cricket World Cup can be applied for from May 1. Tickets will be available for all 51 matches in the first World Cup in the Caribbean from March 13-April 26, 2007. They will range from category 1 for premium seats, to category 4, a party stand with artificially c...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || LARA ACHIEVES TEST RUNS MILESTONE 0 West Indies batsman Brian Lara has become only the second player in Test cricket history to score 11,000 runs. Lara, 36, passed the milestone en route to a double century in the final Test against Australia in Adelaide. The Trinidadian was 202 not out at stumps and is now only 11 runs behind...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || NO EASE FOR WINDIES, SAYS PONTING 0 ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) - Ricky Ponting is demanding that his Australian team banish the "dead-rubber syndrome" mentality as they attempt to complete a three-Test sweep over the hapless West Indies which started last night (Caribbean time). The Australians have proved themselves vastly superior...Read More >>>   11/25/2005 || TRINIDAD HALTS SHIPMENT OF FEATHERS FROM CHINA AMI... 0 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - Trinidad and Tobago halted a shipment of feathers from China, citing concerns about bird flu in barring some imports of feathers that traditionally adorn costumes in annual carnival celebrations. It said there was no indication the feathers were contaminated. Worker...Read More >>>   11/23/2005 || NEW BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR EASTERN CARIBBEA... 0 BRIDGETOWN -- Britain has appointed a career diplomat as its new high commissioner to the Eastern Caribbean, the high commission said. Duncan Taylor, 47, assumed the post on Monday and will have responsibility for Barbados, Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts, St. Lucia and St. Vincent, the hig...Read More >>>   11/23/2005 || GRENADA BACK FROM DEFAULT, FISCAL PRUDENCE IS MAND... 0 The new credit rating may be low but it sends a crucial message to the international financial community: Grenada is moving back from the brink of financial ruin. Standard & Poor's Rating Service has sent that word out to investors and institutions which want to do business with or otherwise put ...Read More >>>   11/23/2005 || WINDIES SEARCH FOR FORM WHILE AUSSIES GET IMPATIEN... 0 ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) - The beaten West Indian tourists must be bemused at Australia's sacking of Michael Clarke after two comprehensive Test victories. As the once-great Caribbean team search for ways to become competitive in Test cricket again, the Australians are showing a lack of patience...Read More >>>   11/23/2005 || CARICOM PRIME MINISTERS MEET WITH BRITISH PM 0 Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell has called the meeting between Caricom Prime Ministers and Prime Minister Blair a successful one. Speaking from London, Prime Minister Mitchell said that Caricom leaders used the opportunity to ask Britain to support a Regional Development Fu...Read More >>>   11/22/2005 || WHEN WILL IT EVER END? 0 by Lloyd Noel, a former Attorney General of Grenada and political commentator From all appearances, we are becoming a country without a conscience. Because we have lived with suffering and bad governments for so many years, our very souls are now hardened to the point of indifference. But ...Read More >>>   11/22/2005 || BLAIR TO MEET CARIBBEAN LEADERS AHEAD OF COMMONWEA... 0 LONDON (AP) - Efforts to reach a new global trade deal will top the agenda when British Prime Minister Tony Blair meets Caribbean leaders in London today, his office said yesterday. Negotiations are in the final stretch ahead of a mid-December meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong,...Read More >>>   11/22/2005 || PM MITCHELL LEAVES FOR COMMOMWEALTH HEADS OF GOVER... 0 Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell left Grenada yesterday to travel to London and Malta. Prime Minister Mitchell is expected to meet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London and then travel on to Malta to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Prime Mi...Read More >>>   11/22/2005 || WORLD BANK GROUP EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS VISIT GRENADA 0 Executive Directors from the World Bank Group visited Grenada and held meetings with the Prime Minister, the Honorable Dr. Keith Mitchell, the Finance Minister, Mr. Anthony Boatswain, and other senior government officials from Grenada and the wider OECS. During the visit, the Directors from the Bank...Read More >>>   11/21/2005 || CHRISTIANS IN GRENADA STUNNED AT PASTOR'S ARREST 0 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Christian community in Grenada was shocked on Thursday after receiving news of the arrest of a Baltimore County, Maryland, pastor on sexual abuse charges. Gerald Griffith, who visited Grenada on two occasions after Hurricane Ivan, opened the eyes of many here who attend...Read More >>>   11/21/2005 || GRENADIANS AT JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE 0 Ambassador Ruth Elizabeth Rouse, Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations, recently participated in a Luncheon Meeting hosted by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. The Ambassador was welcomed by Dr. Richard Saulnier, Interim Vice-President for ...Read More >>>     11/21/2005 || OECS WARNS OF BANANA SHOWDOWN 0 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Eastern Caribbean leaders will have to reach a common position on banana export prices before the World Trade Organisation meets in Hong Kong this month, an official statement said Thursday. The WTO ruled in August and again in October that proposed preferential European...Read More >>>