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2/5/2011 || CANADIAN HIGH COMMISSIONER PAYS COURTESY CALL 1 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011_ High Commissioner of Canada to Grenada, Her Excellency Ruth T. Archibald, this morning paid a courtesycall on Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, at his Botanical Gardens Office. The Prime Minister used the opportunity to convey his government’s appreci...Read More >>>   2/5/2011 || GRENADA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION NAMES COACH AND MANAG... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, February 4, 2011 - The Executive Committee of the Grenada Football Association (GFA) has appointed a national coach and manager for the upcoming CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament. The appointment of Mike Adams as Head Coach and Phillip James as Manager of the national senior tea...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES SPANISH AMBASSADOR 1 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011_ Prime Minister Tillman Thomas has welcomed the news that young Grenadian footballers will soon be able to access training in the sport, through a football academy being established by the Spanish football club, Real Madrid. The information was ...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || WORLD FOOD PRICES REACH NEW HISTORIC PEAK 1 Rome, 3 February 2011- World food prices surged to a new historic peak in January, for the seventh consecutive month, according to the updated FAO Food Price Index, a commodity basket that regularly tracks monthly changes in global food prices. The Index averaged 231 points in January and was up ...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || PRIME MINISTER PLACES SPECIAL FOCUS ON CRIME REDUC... 2 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2011_ Prime Minister Tillman Thomas is placing special emphasis on strengthening law enforcement to maintain Grenada’s reputation as one of the safest tourism destinations in the region.The Prime Minister, in his capacity as Minister for National Securit...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || NEW CYPRUS HIGH COMMISSIONER TO GRENADA 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, February 02, 2011 - The Ambassador of Cyprus in Havana, Mr Stavros Loizides presented on, 26 January, his credentials to the Governor General of Grenada Sir Carlyle Glean, as the new High Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus to the country, based in Havana. During the pri...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || PM THOMAS NOT THE FIRST HEAD TO BE SEARCHED. 0 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - THE Right Excellent Sir Kennedy Simmonds, first Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis, was left in despair after having been embarrassingly searched at the RLB International Airport on Wednesday,September 17.* According to WINN FM, Dr. Simmonds called in on the station’s Ins...Read More >>>   2/3/2011 || WESLEY COLLEGE CROWNED NEW BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS 0 The boys from Wesley College in the nation’s capital on Wednesday February 2, 2011 defeated (SAASS) the defending champions in the Inter Secondary Schools’ Basketball tournament in a 'best of three' finals and deservedly claimed the title of 2011 basketball champions. In the first encounter playe...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || OAS ASSISTANT SECRETARY GENERAL BRIEFS CARICOM CHA... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, January 31, 2011 - The Assistant Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), Ambassador Albert Ramdin, met on Monday with the Chair of the Caribbean Community Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, on the political developments in Haiti. During the mee...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || 42 YEAR OLD MAN FOUND DEAD 1 A 42 year-old man from Florida in St. John’s was found dead in front of a popular business establishment on Upper Depradine Street, Gouyave sometime after 1 am on Saturday January 29, 2011. A report from the police stated that a post mortem performed on the body revealed that he had died from str...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || PULP WEIGHS IN ON THE GREATER GRENVILLE PROJECT 3 Then Manager Caribbean Development Bank P.O. Box 408 Wildey St. Michael Barbados, W.I. SUBJECT: Greater Grenville Development Project We of the Peoples United Labour Party are overly concerned about programmes and projects happening or about to happen in our tri-island nation. Si...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || SPEECH DELIVERED BY MWAG'S PRESIDENT RAWLE TITUS A... 0 MWAG PREESIDENT'S SPEECH: We have embarked on a new year with renewed hope and purpose, and a sense that in the year under review we had genuinely begun to construct a foundation on which the rich legacy of Grenadian media and journalism can stand for years. The building blocks of this legacy...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || GRENADA WON MISS CARIBBEAN QUEEN CONTEST 2 Grenada's Ameena Caesar has been crowned the first ever Miss Caribbean Queen in New York on Friday night at Club Nocturnal. The 18 year-old from Marquis, St Andrew defeated five other contestants from Jamaica, St Kitts & Nevis, Haiti, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago. She copped all five categorie...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || GRENADA SPORTS MINISTER CALLS FOR REGIONAL INTERVE... 1 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 27, 2011- Grenada’s Sports Minister Patrick Simmons is calling for regional governments to collectively discuss the situation of this year’s Junior CARIFTA Games. The annual track and field championships are in danger of being cancelled for the first time in 40 year...Read More >>>   1/31/2011 || OPPOSITION SUPPORTS MEETING BUT CALLS FOR APOLOGY 2 St. George’s, Grenada – 27th January, 2011: Members of Her Majesty Opposition say they still consider it a noble initiative by the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) to form an economic union. However they are encouraging the Heads to ensure that the people are involved in the process....Read More >>>   1/26/2011 || PRESS RELEASE - 2010 NATIONAL SPORTS AWARDS 3 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, January 26, 2011* – Grenada’s sports personalities for 2010 will be announced at a ceremony at the Grenada Trade Centre on Saturday. Twenty-three nominees from 14 national associations will be vying for the prestigious awards of sportsman and woman of the year. The ceremo...Read More >>>   1/26/2011 || 2011 INDEPENDENCE ROAD RACE CREATED MUCH EXCITEMEN... 1 Hillsborough, Carriacou, January 26, 2011- The air was charged with excitement as athletes of the primary and secondary schools in Carriacou came out in their numbers and participated in the annual Independence Road race on Wednesday, January 26th. The race started in the south of the island an...Read More >>>   1/26/2011 || TRAINING FOR FISHERMEN FROM SANDY ISLAND/OYSTER BE... 1 Hillsborough, Carriacou, January 26, 2011- Carriacou fishermen, displaced by the declaration and implementation of the Sandy Island/ Oyster Bed Marine Protected Area (SIOBMPA), are being afforded training to allow them to continue earning a living from fishing. The SIOBMPA has prohibited spear an...Read More >>>   1/26/2011 || ACM STATEMENT ON IMPENDING CLOSURE OF BBC CARIBBEA... 0 January 25, 2011 - The Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is saddened by the announcement by the British Broadcasting Corporation that its popular Caribbean Service is to be closed. The ACM wishes to pay tribute to the West Indian men and women and their British counterparts who strove ...Read More >>>   1/25/2011 || GRENADA HOSTS HISTORIC OECS RETREAT 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011_ Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas greeted his colleague Heads of Government of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) as they boarded the ferry for a historic meeting at the picturesque Calivigny Island on Monday morning. At just...Read More >>>   1/25/2011 || RECOGNITION OF INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMS DAY – JANUARY... 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 2011: Secretary General of the World Customs Organisation (WCO), Kunio Mikuriya, said he was pleased to announce that 2011 will be dedicated to knowledge and the critical part it plays in enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of Customs administrations...Read More >>>   1/25/2011 || FIFTY-SECOND MEETING OF THE OECS AUTHORITY SPECIAL... 1 Fifty-Second Meeting of the OECS Authority Special Retreat of the Heads, Calivigny Island, St. George’s Grenada24 - 25 January, 2011 INTRODUCTIONA - the Fifty-Second Meeting of the OECS Authority convened on January 24 th 2011 onCalvigny Island, St. George’s, OECS leaders focused on a new ...Read More >>>   1/25/2011 || SIERRA LEONE LINKED TO CARRIACOU 9 Hillsborough, Carriacou, January 24, 2011- Although more than 200 years have passed since enslaved Africans were taken to Carriacou on the brutal Middle Passage, the people of Carriacou have never forgotten their African homeland. They continue to celebrate their African heritage through the famous...Read More >>>   1/24/2011 || TENSION RISES AS HEATS PROGRAM UNFOLDS AT SAASS 0 Nash House (blue) has taken an early lead in the St. Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School’s 2011 athletic competition. After the fourth round of events in the SAASS heats program (Cross Country, male and female 100 m, 200m and 400m), Nash is out front with 219 points. Julien’s House (red) is on 15...Read More >>>   1/24/2011 || FAITH BELIEVERS CELEBRATE 4 YEARS 1 Faith Believers Church of God, located in Simon, St. Andrew’s, yesterday (Sunday January 23, 2011)held a celebratory service to commemorate its fourth anniversary. The church was established by Pastor Randolph Reason on December 31, 2006. Over the years, the membership of the church has grown sig...Read More >>>   1/23/2011 || GOOD WEEKEND RESULTS FOR REDHEAD AND BARTHOLOMEW 2 LUBBOCK, Texas – Grenadians Janelle Redhead and Rondell Bartholomew were stand-outs for South Plains College at the Texas Tech Invitational this weekend. The quartet of Janeil Bellille, Jura Levy, Sparkle McKnight, and *Janelle Redhead* made a mockery of the women's 4x400 meter relay record that ...Read More >>>   1/23/2011 || GRENADA FACILITATES HISTORIC EVENT 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA _ Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), Dr. Len Ishmael, has congratulated Prime Minister Tillman Thomas on Grenada’s ratification of the revised OECS Treaty of Basseterre, which establishes the OECS Economic Union. In a letter to Prime Min...Read More >>>   1/23/2011 || GRENADA MOVES CLOSER TO A MEDIA POLICY 6 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA _ Grenada is one step closer to the establishment of a national media policy, with the completion of work on a draft policy, which is now being reviewed by the Ministry of Legal Affairs. In supporting his administration’s 2011 budget, Prime Minister and Minister for Inform...Read More >>>   1/23/2011 || PRIME MINISTER PROMISES FIRM DECISION ON PENSION R... 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA _ Grenada’s Prime Minister has given a commitment for a “firm decision” on Pension Reform by the middle of the year. The Prime Minister said a Cabinet Committee has been mandated to review the report of the consultant and to advise on the best possible solution to the cur...Read More >>>     1/23/2011 || EMPOWERMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE 5 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA _ Prime Minister and Minister with responsibility for the Public Service, Hon. Tillman Thomas, has assured Parliament that the Public Service will be fully empowered to address issues of implementation that has been “plaguing it for years.” The Prime Minister was making his ...Read More >>>