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6/28/2005 || REGIONAL TOURISM MINISTERS URGE RESISTANCE TO NEW ... 0 A NUMBER of the region's Tourism Ministers are calling on Caribbean Heads of Government to enlist the assistance of lobbyists to fight the new passport regulations being implemented by the United States. "It's about time we started looking into that possibility," said Noel Lynch, Minister of Tou...Read More >>>   6/28/2005 || WEST INDIES STRUGGLE TO PUT A TEAM TOGETHER FOR SR... 0 NEW DELHI, India (AFP): The West Indies, who are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka next week for two Test matches, as well as a one-day series also featuring India, are struggling to assemble a team due to a sponsorship tussle between the players and their cricket board. Only three of the 13 selec...Read More >>>   6/28/2005 || GOVERNMENT SECURES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRENADIAN STUD... 0 St. George’s: More and more young persons are being given opportunities to study at universities all around the world, including USA, UK Canada and the Caribbean, as part of a government scholarship programme. Since the passage of Hurricane Ivan, government has intensified its efforts to secure ...Read More >>>   6/28/2005 || GRENADIAN RE-ELECTED AS JUDGE ON INTERNATIONAL TRI... 0 St. George’s: L. Dolliver M. Nelson has been re-elected by an overwhelming majority, as a Judge on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) at elections held during the Fifteenth Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea at United Nations Headquarters i...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || SIZZLING ACTION IN CARIBBEAN CUP SOCCER WEEK 3 0 The action in yesterday’s Caribbean Cup games was fast and furious and did not leave the many soccer fans who came out to support their favorite teams disappointed. When the dust had settled some were happy, others sad. St. Lucia: 2 Dominica:1 Newcomers to Caribbean Cup soccer, Dominica, met t...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || GRANT COMMUNICATIONS HAS NEW WEBSITE 0 Grant Communications is pleased to announce the launch of its new website, www.grenadabroadcast.com. Designed by Neil and Monja Winsborrow of Spicy Design, the site is the brainchild of veteran broadcaster, George Grant and has set out to accomplish specific objectives: o To provide an electroni...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || GRENADA'S JASON ROBERTS READIES FOR 2005/6 SEASON 0 LONDON, England: Grenadian international striker Jason Roberts and his newly-promoted Wigan Athletic team will start their English Premier League campaign at home to defending champions Chelsea on the opening day of the 2005/6 season, which kicks off August 13. Roberts, who broke his leg in the ...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES FACE PROBLEMS MEETING SINGLE M... 0 Port of Spain, Trinidad: Sixteen years after Caribbean Community (Caricom) leaders agreed on the need to establish a Caricom Single Market and Economy (CSME), light appears to be at the end of the tunnel, even though fresh concerns were recently expressed by smaller states within the regional groupi...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || GRENADA'S ARD PLAY BACK THEATRE TO BE FEATURED AT ... 0 ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Grenada's Agency for Reconstruction and Development Inc. (ARD) Community Caravan Play Back Theatre will be featured at the Second Caribbean International Symposium in Arts Education, which takes place in Trinidad from June 27 to 30. The ARD Department of Social Recovery int...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || ANTI-SQUATTING UNIT AT WORK 0 The members of the Anti-Squatting team have been out in the south of the island erecting signs and talking to squatters in the south of St. George. Since the passage of Hurricane Ivan the illegal act of squatting on Government land has been on the increase causing the Government of Grenada to rea...Read More >>>   6/27/2005 || ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL FARMERS MEETING HELD IN ST. GEO... 0 The conference room of the Melville Street Fish market was packed to capacity with some farmers having to stand outside as the Ministry of Agriculture organised its fourth in a series of parish meetings.. Over 250 farmers in the parish of St. Georges attend the meeting, to hear from the Ministers...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || TAKING AIM AT THE GRENADA INQUIRY 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA There appears to be agreement in-between raging debate in Grenada, after a week of hearings, that the Grenada commission inquiry will me a multi million dollar exercise that will amount to nothing. For the supporters of the Prime Minister, who is being investigated for corru...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || COMMISSION WON'T HELP SAVE PM'S NAME 0 Commentary by Hamlet Mark The many questions that remained unanswered following a week of testimony in the Grenada inquiry, might not be seriously broached until Prime Minister Keith Mitchell himself, Eric Reisteiner and Timothy Bass are brought to the stand. But as things stand, it is very un...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || STUDENTS IN BARBADOS HELP GRENADIAN COUNTERPARTS 0 DURING the first month of the 2005 hurricane season the Barbadian public continues to make displays of solidarity to the people of Grenada who are still rebuilding from the devastation of Hurricane Ivan. The latest contribution comes from the school children of Barbados in the form of a monetary don...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || GRENADA CARNIVAL QUEEN 2004 TO REPRESENT AT MISS C... 0 The 2004 Carnival Queen, Miss Nicole Seales, leaves the island on Tuesday June 28 to participate in the annual Miss Carival Beauty Pageant to be held on Friday July 1 at the Victoria Park, Kingstown, St.Vincent. The Pageant forms part of the yearly celebrations of Vincy Mas. Nicole is currently ...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || JAPANESE GOVERNMENT FUNDS IMPROVEMENT IN SEVEN GRE... 0 St. George’s: After successful negotiations between the Minister for Education and the Japanese Embassy in Trinidad, a formal collective signing ceremony took place Wednesday between the Ambassador of Japan, His Excellency Shigenobu Kato, and the respective principals of seven schools, in the presen...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || CINGULAR DENIES LEAVING CARIBBEAN BECAUSE OF LOSSE... 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Cingular Wireless says it sold its operations in the Caribbean not because of losses or poor performance in the market, but because its business focus is solely now on doing business in the United States. Cingular’s Executive Director of Media Relations, Mark Siegel insisted...Read More >>>   6/24/2005 || BEACH CLEAN-UP UNDER WAY 0 The Ministry of Tourism has embarked on a beach clean up programme to enhance some community beaches. Groups of persons from the various communities have been employed by the Ministry to work on the beaches in their area. The programme started three weeks ago in St.David’s. To date, Bathway, La ...Read More >>>   6/23/2005 || LARA LEFT OUT OF ONE-DAY SERIES 0 Brian Lara has pulled out of the West Indies squad for the triangular one-day tournament against hosts Sri Lanka and India starting next month. The star batsman did not play in the one-dayers against Pakistan last month and indicated he would cut down with a view to prolonging his Test career. ...Read More >>>   6/23/2005 || DIGICEL TO ACQUIRE CINGULAR'S CARIBBEAN WIRELESS O... 0 KINGSTON, Jamaica: Digicel Group, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications provider in the Caribbean, announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Cingular's Caribbean operations in a multi-million dollar deal that significantly increases the size of Digicel's pan-Caribb...Read More >>>   6/23/2005 || MORE THAN 5.400 GRENADIANS HAVE RECEIVED GOVERNMEN... 0 The Ministry of Housing is reaching out to the needy persons in Grenada. Over 5,400 families have benefited from the three main programs implemented by the Emergency Housing Committee geared towards the reconstruction of Grenada in the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan. The three programs are: 1.The...Read More >>>   6/23/2005 || DRUG CONTROL COMMUNITY PROGRAMME 0 Wednesday June 22, 2005, St. George’s: The Drug Control Secretariat, in collaboration with the Youth Department, will conduct a Community Outreach Programme, under the Drug Demand Reduction Project, in July 2005, in the parishes of St. George’s, St. David’s, and St. Andrew’s. The objective of the pr...Read More >>>   6/23/2005 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT WARNS AGAINST SQUATTING ON CROW... 0 The Government of Grenada Crown lands Anti- Squatting Unit is appealing to persons (especially in St. George’s, the limes and Morne Rouge areas) who are attempting to or planning to build on Crown lands to STOP. Unless they have written permission from the Ministry of Agriculture and Lands signed...Read More >>>   6/22/2005 || CARIBBEAN CUP SOCCER WEEK 2 ROUND UP 0 The second weekend in the 2005 Caribbean Cup championships provide soccer fans with the exciting soccer action they have come to expect in one of the tri-state area’s premier soccer contests. The father’s day triple-header was a treat for the crowd. Trinidad & Tobago:2 Antigua/Barbuda:1 In ...Read More >>>   6/22/2005 || CARICOM 10K ROAD RACE RUNS OFF ON 3 JULY 2005 0 (CARICOM Secretariat, Georgetown, Guyana) The inaugural CARICOM 10K Road Race will be launched in Saint Lucia on the morning of 3 July 2005, just hours before the opening ceremony for the 26th Meeting of CARICOM Heads of Government. The race is open to professional and amateur athletes from acros...Read More >>>   6/22/2005 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT VOTES AGAINST CALLING HOSPITAL ... 0 St George's, Grenada: The Grenada government has voted against an opposition motion calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the recent shortage of oxygen and other critical supplies at the island's main hospital. The Keith Mitchell administration used its slender one seat majority to vote again...Read More >>>   6/22/2005 || LARA’S XI WINS TSUNAMI RELIEF MATCH 0 LONDON, England: West Indies' star batsman Brian Lara hit just nine runs, but skippered an International XI team to a six wickets win over defeated an Asia XI in a Twenty20 cricket match for tsunami relief at The Oval in London on Monday. Australian opener Greg Blewett stroked an undefeated 91 ...Read More >>>   6/21/2005 || CTO LOOKS INTO REGIONAL AIRLINE INDUSTRY 0 St. John´s, Antigua, Jun 20 (Prensa Latina) Antigua and Barbuda"s Minister of Tourism, Harold Lovell, will chair a new sub-committee of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) that will examine the current difficulties being faced by regional airlines. Lovell, who also has responsibility for civ...Read More >>>   6/21/2005 || US DEPORTATION DRIVE TARGETS CARIB NATIONALS 0 ALTHOUGH REFUSING to reveal exact numbers, the United States Government has stepped up its deportation of Caribbean immigrants. The deportations are being coordinated through the Customs Enforcement Detention and Removal Offices. Over the past four months, immigration officers have nabbed a l...Read More >>>     6/21/2005 || TODAY IS THE LONGEST DAY 0 TODAY, which is the beginning of summer, will be the longest day of the year. According to the website www.infoplease.com, at the time of summer solstice, the sun is directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer. "Thus the sun appears highest in the sky (about 66 degrees above the horizon ...Read More >>>