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12/9/2005 || PROGRESS MADE IN CARICOM DEVELOPMENT FUND 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Secretary General of the Caribbean Community, Edwin Carrington, says he is "satisfied with progress made" at Tuesday's special meeting of Caricom Heads of Government, including efforts to establish a Regional Development Fund (RDF). Speaking with the Observer yesterday befo...Read More >>>   12/8/2005 || GRENADA AIRPORT AUTHORITY SIGNS CONTRACT WITH GREN... 0 The Airport Authority has signed a contract with the Grenada Motor Club granting permission to turn Pearls Airstrip into an official drag racing site. The development of the site will include bleachers on both sides of the track & in the pit area. The full length of the track will be fenced to k...Read More >>>   12/8/2005 || CASTRO MEETS CARICOM LEADERS 0 Security, trade, aid and cultural ties are among subjects Cuban President Fidel Castro is due to discuss with Caricom leaders at a summit in Barbados. Its the second of these triennial summits, which began in 2002 to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between ...Read More >>>   12/8/2005 || GONSALVES GETS SECOND MANDATE 0 THE RULING Unity Labour Party (ULP) was returned to power in general elections in St. Vincent and the Grenadines yesterday, winning by the same margin as it did in 2000, according to preliminary results announced here. The ULP won 12 of the 15 seats contested in the elections, while the New Democ...Read More >>>   12/8/2005 || CARICOM POLITICIANS ACCUSED OF 'DABBLING' IN ST VI... 0 KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent: Two Caribbean Prime Ministers, Dr Kenny Anthony of St Lucia and Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago, have been criticised by supporters of the New Democratic Party (NDP) who have accused the pair of "dabbling" in the domestic affairs of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I...Read More >>>   12/8/2005 || T&T BODY VOICES CONCERN ABOUT CXC ASSOCIATE DEGREE... 0 Dr. Donald Peters, president of The College of Science, Technology and Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (COSTAATT), has added his voice to concerns about the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) offering an associate degree. In a letter to the Minister of Science, Technology and Tertiary Educa...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || GRENADA BOARD OF TOURISM TO COORDINATE HOST HOME P... 0 The Grenada Board of Tourism, in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism, has been mandated to co-ordinate a Host Home Programme. This initiative has been introduced to assist in finding rooms that will be necessary to host the 2007 Cricket World Cup in Grenada. It is designed to encourage owners...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || 2006 CARIBBEAN HOTEL FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIPS LAUNC... 0 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: The Caribbean Hotel Foundation (CHF) of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) is making a call to Caribbean hospitality employees, educators, and students wishing to pursue studies in the field to apply for its 2006 Scholarship Program. “As we have increased the number and...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || VINCENTIANS VOTE TODAY 0 AS THE people of St. Vincent and the Grenadines prepare to go to the polls to elect a new government the major political parties say they are ready to rumble. Yesterday both the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) and the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), appeared very confident of victory in th...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || CARIBBEAN BUSINESSNES NEEDED TO SUPPLY EQUIPMENT F... 0 Regional businesses and entrepreneurs will have a unique opportunity to provide a wide-ranging variety of equipment and supplies for ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 through the Central Procurement Programme (CPP). The Event's size and magnitude necessitate the acquisition of myriad "temporary elements...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || ST. LUCIA FACES WORLD CUP CRICKET RACE 0 Debate is raging in St Lucia about whether the country will be ready for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The outgoing president of the St Lucia Hotel and Tourism Association and the head of the country's World Cup organizing committee have markedly contrasting views on the issue. St Lucia will hos...Read More >>>   12/7/2005 || CARICOM LEADERS MEET TODAY TO DISCUSS DEVELOPMENT ... 0 BRIDGETOWN - When Caribbean Community leaders meet in Barbados today for a special session ahead of tomorrow's Caricom-Cuba Summit, a top priority agenda issue will be the establishment of the long-promised Regional Development Fund (RDF). Realisation of this often deferred project, enshrined in ...Read More >>>   12/6/2005 || IMF DEPUTY MANAGING DIRECTOR LOOKS TO ‘FINE-TUNE’ ... 0 WASHINGTON, USA: On the eve of his first visit to the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union region, IMF Deputy Managing Director Agustin Carstens said that “while the challenges that the countries face are very deep, in many aspects there has been progress.” In an interview with Reuters, Carstens not...Read More >>>   12/6/2005 || CXC TO AWARD FIRST ASSOCIATE DEGREES NEXT YEAR 0 DESPITE reservations from some stakeholders, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is pressing ahead with its plan to award associate degrees to students successful in certain groupings of subjects at the body's advanced level examinations. The CXC is also seeking ways to reward students not n...Read More >>>   12/6/2005 || CARIBBEAN LEADERS CALL ON INDUSTRY TO SUPPORT FREE... 0 MIAMI (AP) - Finding their region winning growing international attention and eager to keep up with the free-trade momentum, Caribbean civic and industry leaders are expected to push for business, environmental and political reforms during an annual meeting here this week. The private Caribbean-C...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || PRESENTATION OF NATIONAL BUDGET NOW SCHEDULED FOR ... 0 St. George’s, November 30, 2005: The Government of Grenada has taken the decision to postpone the presentation of the 2006 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditures from December 2005 to early 2006. As recently announced by the Minister of Finance, Hon. Anthony Boatswain, the decision to postpone th...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || NEW HOTEL TO BE BUILT IN GRENADA 0 BUOYED by the recent hurricane damage to Cancun, Mexico - a major tourist destination - the upcoming 2005/2006 winter tourist season will be the "best ever," according to Sandals Resorts chairman Gordon 'Butch' Stewart. Stewart told reporters at the weekend that Sandals Resorts had enjoyed its be...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || CARICOM-CUBA SUMMIT BEGINS IN BARBADOS THIS WEEK 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Relations between the 15-member CARICOM grouping and Cuba, its most north-westerly Caribbean neighbour, are expected to be further strengthened when the Second CARICOM-Cuba Summit convenes here in Barbados this week at the Barbados Hilton. The December 7 to 8 meeting will br...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || CARIBBEAN'S HEALTH SECTOR TO BENEFIT FROM 2007 TOU... 0 THE REGION'S medical and health sectors stand to be improved significantly as a result of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. Chairperson of the Medical, Health and Anti-Doping Directorate, Dr. Marion Bullock DuCasse, says that while certain measures are being put in place for the event, the legacy of su...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || LARA STAYS NO. 2 IN WORLD BATTING RANKINGS 0 LONDON, England (CMC) - Triple world batting record holder Brian Lara, fresh from his achievement of becoming the game's all-time leading aggregate scorer in Tests, has kept the number two spot in the world batting rankings. In the latest LG ICC world rankings released yesterday, South African Ja...Read More >>>   12/5/2005 || MORE CLARITY NEEDED ON CSME 0 With just weeks before the proposed start of the Caribbean Single Market, questions still remain about the participation of Caricom's smaller countries in the liberalisation of the movement of skills, labour, goods and services across the region. This week, a technical team from the Caricom Secr...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || COMMONWEALTH LEADERS VOW TO ASSIST GRENADA 0 ST GEORGE'S - Commonwealth states have pledged to assist Grenada in its recovery process after the devastating effects of Hurricanes Ivan and Emily. This pledge came after an appeal by Prime Minister Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell at the recently concluded Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting i...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || INTER AGENCY MEETING DISCUSSES HOUSING 0 ST GEORGE'S - Outstanding challenges surrounding housing were the focus of attention at the most recent Inter-Agency Coordination Meeting, which is chaired by the Agency for Reconstruction and Development Inc. (ARD). Christopher Henriques and Ron Hughes, directors of the Association of Grenada In...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || CXC MEETING DISCUSSING NEW CERTIFICATE OF COMPETEN... 0 WHEN the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) meeting ends today, the region should know whether the implementation of a new award - the Caribbean Certificate of Secondary Competence - will become a reality. In an interview with JIS News, Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies an...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || HURRICANE SEASON ENDS; BUT TROPICAL STORM STILL AC... 0 MIAMI (AP) - Tropical Storm Epsilon was still active yesterday - one day after the hurricane season officially ended - but was drifting over open water in the central Atlantic. The storm started to take a turn away from Bermuda, but could still cause the island dangerous surf conditions, forecast...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || AIDS DAY MARKED WITH MARCHES 0 SCHOOL CHILDREN in Senegal pledged to abstain from sex, and Indian village women cast off a veil of shame about their HIV status as World AIDS Day was marked around the globe yesterday. About 40 million people worldwide are now infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Some three million of ...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || NEW CARIBBEAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (CXC) SECONDARY... 0 THE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) is to introduce a new secondary level programme by 2007. The new programme - the Caribbean Certificate for Secondary Competence, is intended to meet the demand for certification of competence for secondary school students who are not at the level to sit th...Read More >>>   12/2/2005 || WOMEN, YOUNG PEOPLE INCREASINGLY HIT BY AIDS IN TH... 0 GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP): More than 2.1 million people live with HIV-AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean, where Thursday's World Aids Day was marked with increased public warnings to act to stop the spread of the disease. "Just in 2004, some 240,000 people in Latin America and another ...Read More >>>   12/1/2005 || READY FOR MORE STORMS 0 Caribbean governments are making sweeping changes to emergency management plans to better prepare the region for the new reality of hurricane season: dozens of named storms that strike more frequently and severely. The 2005 hurricane season, which ended Wednesday, saw seven named storms in the Ca...Read More >>>     12/1/2005 || LARA MOVES TO NO. 2 IN ICC BATTING RANKINGS 0 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (CMC) - Batting superstar Brian Lara has moved up five places to number two in the LG International Cricket Council Test batting rankings following the three-Test series against Australia that concluded recently. The 36-year old, former West Indies captain now hold...Read More >>>