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3/15/2005 || WINDIES CRICKET ‘BATTLE ROYALE’ CONTINUES 0 ST. JOHN'S, Antigua, Tues. Mar. 15, 2005: The West Indies Cricket Board yesterday struck back at claims by former team sponsor Cable and Wireless that it was never offered the deal secured by Digicel, making it the latest round in the cricket battle that is waging in the region. In a statement is...Read More >>>   3/14/2005 || T&T-BORN CLEMENT SMASHES JOHNSON'S 400M INDOOR MAR... 0 FAYETEVILLE, Arkansas (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago-born Kerron Clement smashed the great Michael Johnson's world indoor 400-metre record when he ran an awesome 44.57 seconds to win the US NCAA Indoor Track and Field title in the event on Saturday night. On an evening when Caribbean athletes Tiand...Read More >>>   3/14/2005 || LEGAL COMMISSION SAYS WILDMAN REJECTED BECAUSE HE ... 0 CASTRIES, St Lucia (AP) - The Caribbean legal commission that rejected Grenada's choice of a new attorney general last week said Thursday it did so because he was unfit for the job. The Judicial and Legal Services Commission, based in St Lucia, rejected the appointment of Hugh Wildman to be Grena...Read More >>>   3/14/2005 || DELAYS IN CONSTRUCTION ON REDGATE-PERDMONTEMP PROJ... 0 The Ministry of Communication, Works and Transport in conjunction with Dessau Soprin, the consultant and CCI, the contractor, informs the general public that the pouring of concrete has commenced on the Redgate to Perdmontemp road. However the Contractor is experiencing problems with some of the ...Read More >>>   3/14/2005 || PMMITCHELL'S COMMONWEALTH DAY MESSAGE 0 Today we celebrate Grenada’s membership in the Commonwealth family of nations. We celebrate our shared values, our commitment to peace, democracy and human rights and our determination to cooperate with one another in a spirit of solidarity. This year, in particular, we recognise the crucial role...Read More >>>   3/14/2005 || WEST INDIES KEEP LARA IN THE COLD 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AFP): West Indies skipper Brian Lara and six of his teammates will remain frozen out of the squad to face South Africa and Pakistan after the latest moves to solve the long-running contract crisis failed on Saturday. The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) insisted that Lara, vic...Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || CANADA’S SPECIAL ADVISER FOR GRENADA TO VISIT ST G... 0 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Canada’s Special Advisor for Grenada is to visit the Spice Isle in the Eastern Caribbean next week. This was disclosed to St. Kitts and Nevis’ Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas by Canada’s High Commissioner to St. Kitts and Nevis and the Eastern Caribbean, Mr. Michael Welsh....Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || MYSTERY SHOPPERS SOUGHT 0 If shopping is your passion, then here's a way you can shop and make some money too. Frontline Focus International Inc., a Canadian-based company, is looking for mystery or secret shoppers in Anguilla, Barbados, Belize, BVI, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. V...Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || GOVERNMENT, VENDORS HASH OUT TERMS OF OPERATION 0 The Committee with special responsibility for Vendors, convened its first meeting on Tuesday March 1st. Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell at a recent consultation with Market Vendors announced the formation of the committee. The committee comprises Ministry of Works Permanent Secretary, Crispin F...Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || POST-IVAN SOFT LOAN SCHEME TO GET UNDER WAY MARCH ... 1 The granting of loans under the Post Ivan Soft loan Scheme will begin on March 15th. This was disclosed to Prime Minister Keith Mitchell by the committee appointed to manage the loan programme under the Housing Authority of Grenada during a meeting held earlier this week. A number of issues r...Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || GRENADA RECEIVES DONATION FOR TECHOLOGY PROGRAMME ... 0 A cheque for 8,500 pounds was presented to Prime Minister Keith Mitchell on Wednesday, March 9, by Dr. Makela Smith CEO of the Commonwealth Partnership for Technology Management (CPTM). The money is a gift from the Government of Mozambique donated through the CPTM. It is the balance from Mozambiqu...Read More >>>   3/11/2005 || NO RESOLUTION TO WINDIES IMPASSE AS DEADLINE PASSE... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) - The sponsorship row that has engulfed West Indies cricket remained unsettled yesterday, despite fervent attempts by Grenadian Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell to resolve the issue by his self-imposed deadline. A statement from Dr Mitchell's office yesterday indicated ...Read More >>>   3/10/2005 || CARIBBEAN TEACHERS FOR FAILING BLACK UK STUDENTS? 0 It may take teachers from the Caribbean to turn around the academic performance of Caribbean boys in Britain. That suggestion comes from British Labour Party MP Dianne Abbott, amidst renewed debate about the poor grades of black boys in UK schools. Her comments follow a suggestion by Trevor Ph...Read More >>>   3/10/2005 || PM MITCHELL MEETS WITH GRENLEC EXECUTIVES 0 Prime Minister Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell met with G. Robert Blanchard Chairman of The Grenada Electricity Company Ltd. (Grenlec) and Managing Director of Grenlec Mr. Vernon Lawrence yesterday March 9th. The Prime Minister expressed gratitude to Grenlec for its quick and effective response t...Read More >>>   3/10/2005 || WORD EXPECTED TODAY ON WINDIES IMPASSE 0 ST GEORGES, Grenada (CMC) - Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell is still working assiduously to bring an amicable resolution to the sponsorship row that has thrown the West Indies cricket fraternity into crisis. Since the meeting involving the major players in the dispute on Monday, reports s...Read More >>>   3/10/2005 || GRENADA LOOKING TO CARICOM FOR HELP TO PAY CIVIL S... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: Following the devastation left by Hurricane Ivan in September of last year, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), via financial backing from the government of Trinidad and Tobago, is reported to have given in excess of EC$40 million. However, news coming out of St. George's i...Read More >>>   3/9/2005 || TRANSCENDING IVAN: GRENADIAN CHILDREN USE ART TO C... 0 Belmont, St. George’s, Grenada – This week marks the six month anniversary of Hurricane “Ivan” and the challenges continue. As educators, the Meridian School in Belmont found itself faced with the challenge of placing events in perspective and guiding the students in ways that would strengthen thei...Read More >>>   3/9/2005 || CHINA AND VENEZUELA PLAYING MAJOR ROLES IN GRENADA... 0 ST. GEORGES, Grenada: Stressing that Grenada is on the "mend," while expressing gratitude for the strong support received from the people of the Caribbean as well as the international community, Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell said, he and his people are forging ahead with the reconstruction of th...Read More >>>   3/9/2005 || FALKLAND ISLANDS PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO GRENADA 0 When the Elected Councilors of the Falkland Islands, a UK Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic, many thousands of miles from Grenada, heard the news of the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan, they quickly sought to help, recognizing the need of a fellow small Commonwealth country with limited ...Read More >>>   3/9/2005 || WILDMAN APPOINTED LEAGAL ADVISER TO GRENADA'S CABI... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - The Government yesterday appointed a controversial prosecutor as the legal adviser to Grenada's Cabinet, a week after an independent commission rejected him for the post of attorney-general. Hugh Wildman, who prosecutes cases as an adviser to the police department, was...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || APPOINTMENT OF ATTORNEY GENERAL 0 Grenada now has a new Attorney General.   Hon. Elvin Nimrod, Ministry for Legal Affairs has been appointed by the Government of Grenada to the post of Attorney General.  The oath of Office was taken by Minister Nimrod at the office of the Governor General earlier today March 8th. Minister N...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || US IMMIGRATION SERVICE WARNS OF IMPOSTER WEBSITES 0 The USCIS reminds the public that only Websites ending with the ".gov" suffix are official government Websites. The Web address of the official USCIS Website is www.uscis.gov, or uscis.gov Many other non-governmental Websites (e.g., using the suffixes ".com," ".org" or ".net") provide legitimate ...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || LARA ROW SHOWS PERILS OF CRICKET'S WARPED PRIORITI... 0 Surely nothing in all of sport is so dispiriting as the current contract wrangle in the West Indies over the sponsorship status of the world's greatest batsman, Brian Lara. Before negotiations yesterday between two phone companies, the possibility was that Lara, and six of his most talented compa...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || SPICE ISLE LIVES! 0 Grenada is open the business. That is the message the “Spice” island’s Board of Tourism delivered last Friday (March 4) through a mini trade show at the Grand Barbados Resort. The promotion titled “The Spice Lives” was to alert the travel business that water and electricity services had been r...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || PIERRE URGES LEADERSHIP CHANGE FOR NNP 0 By Linda Straker Special To HBN ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Tues. Mar. 8, 2005: A leading newspaper columnist in Grenada has called for the supporters of the New National Party to get rid of Prime Minister Keith Mitchell as their leader. Leslie Pierre in his ‘Personally Speaking’ column in ‘The Gr...Read More >>>   3/8/2005 || MITCHELL EYES RESOLUTION TO WINDIES CRICKET CRISIS 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada - A settlement to the sponsorship row that has rocked West Indies cricket in recent weeks seems in sight. Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell, chairman of CARICOM's sub-committee on cricket, believes the stakeholders involved in the dispute now have a way forward after m...Read More >>>   3/7/2005 || CRUCIAL MEETING IN GRENADA COULD DECIDE FUTURE FOR... 0 The immediate future of the seven West Indian players, including Brian Lara and Ramnaresh Sarwan, who have been dropped over a sponsorship dispute, depends on a high-level meeting later today to be chaired by Keith Mitchell, the prime minister of Grenada, who is also the head of the sub-committee ap...Read More >>>   3/7/2005 || GRENADA TURNING AROUND ECONOMY 0 The latest International Monetary Fund (IMF) consultation on Grenada has praised the level of resilience of the people trying to put their lives back together but conceded that the economic situation there remained difficult. At the request of the Government of Grenada, an IMF mission visited the ...Read More >>>   3/7/2005 || CALIFORNIA FAMILY HELPS HURRICANE VICTIMS IN GRENA... 0 Grenada Relief Team is helping organize donations to the nation's schools. They are trying to give back something to the people who gave them shelter during the storm. By Deepa Bharath Daily Breeze Suzanne Amberg believes that she and her family were caught in the eye of a hurricane for a re...Read More >>>     3/7/2005 || LARA CALLS FOR COMPROMISE 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (Sporting Eagles): West Indies captain Brian Lara announced on Saturday that he is ready to help resolve the current conflict between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and West Indies Players Association (WIPA). “I suggest a lot of sincere apologies – private apologies – w...Read More >>>