Archives for Monday, September 29, 2003:

Two Trinidad ministers may be sacked

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad & Tobago's Attorney General, Ms. Glenda Morean-Phillip-Phillip, and Health Minister Mr. Colm Imbert, may soon have to trade in their ministerial posts for diplomatic ones.... read more...

Former St. Lucia foreign minister Odlum dead

CASTRIES, St. Lucia: Former Foreign Minister of the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia, Mr. George Odlum, is dead. The leftist minister died yesterday after a prolonged bout with pancreatic cancer, the Associated Press reported. He was 65... read more...

Cuba calls for lifting of trade embargo

NEW YORK, New York: Cuba's Foreign Minister, Mr. Felipe Perez Roque, appealed to a Harlem church yesterday for help in lifting of the trade embargo against his country... read more...

Grenada drug 'mules' duo jailed in England

LEICESTER, England: A retired detective and an academic who lured debt-ridden pensioners into becoming drug "mules" with the offer of cash and a free holiday in Grenada were both jailed for 12 years in England... read more...

USVI gets nearly $1 million in federal bonus

WASHINGTON, DC: The US Virgin Islands have been awarded US$880,000 from the U.S. Health and Human Services Department for reducing out-of-wedlock births, according to the Associated Press... read more...

Texas professor breaks new ground on Maya in Belize

SAN ANTONIO, Texas: Findings by a Texas State University professor at an archaeological site in Belize have pushed back the date for the rise of the Maya civilization to 300 years earlier than previously believed... read more...

Kidnapped Trinidadian woman forced to watch as captors dug her grave

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A newly wed 28-year-old businesswoman, kidnapped for ransom and held in captivity for eight days, has disclosed how she was forced to watch as her abductors dug her grave next to where she was being held under a makeshift tent... read more...

BUSINESS NEWS

European Union assistance for Caribbean rice industry

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Caribbean rice industry will soon benefit from US$27.5 million in grants, thanks to the European Union... read more...

St Vincent PM testifies in British probe

LONDON, England: Dr Ralph Gonsalves, the prime minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, told the Competition Commission's probe into how the big supermarket chains exploit suppliers that "what was at stake was not the sale of a few thousand boxes of bananas . . . but the livelihood of small producers and the economies of the Windward Islands"... read more...

Regional airlines struggling

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Regional airlines, British West India Airways (BWIA), and Leewards Islands Airways, (LIAT), want Caricom to intervene and help them boost low earnings... read more...

St. Lucian is Caribbean Entrepreneur of the Year

CASTRIES, St. Lucia: Chairperson of the St. Lucia Distillers, Laurie Barnard has copped the title of Ernst & Young Caribbean Entrepreneur of the Year... read more...

St. Kitts to get pharmaceutical plant

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: St. Kitts may soon be home to a new US$20 million pharmaceutical plant that will manufacture IV Solutions... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

Erectile Dysfunction high in Trinidad & Tobago

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: According to the US based Pfizer Incorporated, makers of the drug Viagra, which made its debut some five years ago, over 60 percent of men in Trinidad & Tobago suffer from some form of erectile dysfunction... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Trinidadian to be extradited from Canada

TORONTO, Ontario: A Trinidadian wanted for the murder of State witness Clint Huggins is to be extradited from Canada. Justice Minister Martin Cauchon has ordered the extradition of Simon Raghoonanan who faces possible execution in Trinidad and Tobago, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail... read more...

Framers of Jamaican constitution in political chess game

KINGSTON, Jamaica: According to the Jamaica Observer, the high stakes game of move and counter-move between the ruling People's National Party (PNP) and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), over whether Jamaica should become a republic, has pitted the only two remaining framers of the Jamaican Constitution against each other... read more...

TRAVEL NEWS

Carnival Cruise Lines to cut visits to Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda: Top international cruise line, Carnival, will cut the number of trips it makes to Bermuda beginning next year.  The Royal Gazette says the Line will cut trips because of scheduling constraints that damages its profitability... read more...

Don't cancel Bermuda visit

HAMILTON, Bermuda: Visitors with reservations for Bermuda should check with their travel agents or resorts before cancelling their trip... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Guyana cricket feud

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana's cricket was thrown into a further state of chaos and controversy when contempt of court proceedings were filed against two officials of the Demerara Cricket Board (DCB)... read more...

Jamaica to take on Brazil

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaica's Reggae Boyz will match their skills against Brazil in a friendly international in England on 12th October... read more...

Caribbean athletes rack up the rankings

PARIS, France: World Championships 100 meters gold medallist Kim Collins ended the season ranked No. 1 by the International Association of Athletics Federations... read more...

Jamaican boxer for U.S. fight

NEW YORK, New York: Jamaican boxer Richard Hall, who fights in the light-heavyweight division, will face-off with the American-born Eric Harding on 10th October at the Mohegan Sun Arena.  The 31-year-old Hall is coming off an exciting win over Julian Letterlough and is ranked No. 6 by the WBO and 10th by the IBF, with a record of 26-4.

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