Archives for Saturday, October 11, 2003:

Four minors charged with manslaughter in Bahamas

NASSAU, Bahamas: The hunt for one of the five missing boys in Grand Bahama is over. Police yesterday charged four minors with manslaughter in connection with the case of 12-year-old Jake Grant, the Associated Press reported last night... read more...

Tropical Storm Mindy threatens Bahamas, Turks & Caicos

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: A tropical storm warning remained in effect for the southeastern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands last night as Tropical Storm Mindy, the latest for the season, churned towards the islands... read more...

Trinidad & Tobago opposition shows up at debate and slams anti-crime efforts

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad & Tobago's Opposition leader and former Prime Minister, Mr. Basdeo Panday, decided to show up for yesterday's budget debates after all and spent nearly two-hours telling members of the House of Representatives that Prime Minister Patrick Manning's proposed budget wastes money on what he called useless government work programs... read more...

Bermuda mayor wins by a landslide

HAMILTON, Bermuda: The incumbent Mayor of Hamilton, Mr. Lawson Mapp, was re-elected in a landslide victory on Thursday night, the Royal Gazette reported. Only 120 votes were cast from a franchise of 372, with 104 going to the 62-year-old incumbent.... read more...

U.S.V.I. official slams teacher's union for seeking recall

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands: The spokesman for the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Mr. James O'Bryan Jr., has slammed the islands' teachers union for seeking a recall on Governor Turnbull... read more...

Two more convicted of passport fraud in St. Lucia

CASTRIES, St Lucia: Days after Grenada nabbed two Republic of China nationals with Taiwanese passports, St. Lucian authorities have caught two more non-nationals with fraudulent passports... read more...

Bajan police arrest British man for allegedly smuggling marijuana

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: A British man, allegedly trying to smuggle 24 pounds of marijuana to Barbados on a flight from Jamaica, was yesterday nabbed by local police... read more...

Trinidadian cop fights for job in Bermuda

HAMILTON, Bermuda: A Trinidadian dismissed from the Bermuda Police Service has been granted a reprieve until a full hearing takes place. 
The Bermuda Sun reports that Richard Williams was among the foreign recruits brought into fill staffing shortages within the service earlier this year. His contract fell into dispute after the Bermuda Police Service questioned whether he had made the necessary arrangements with the Trinidad Police Service to work in Bermuda. 

Cocaine smuggled from St Lucia in honey jar

CROYDON, England: According to a report in the Nottingham Evening Post, a British man was jailed for six and a half years for attempting to smuggle cocaine into the UK through Gatwick Airport from St Lucia, with the drug mixed in a jar of honey ... read more...

Canadian beef imports to be resumed by some Caribbean countries

EDMONTON, Canada: According to the Saskatoon Western Producer, Trinidad & Tobago, Antigua & Barbuda and Jamaica have announced that they will resume trade in Canadian boneless beef within the next 30 months.
The number of countries that still have banned Canadian beef and cattle because of the discovery of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in May has dropped from 34 to 25, said Ted Haney, president of the Canadian Beef Export Federation. 

Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands benefit from tobacco funds

NEW YORK, NY: Reuters News Service reports that, in fiscal 2000, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands, along with 46 states and the District of Columbia, began receiving payments from the four biggest cigarette makers under a settlement agreement reached in late 1998... read more...

Guyana's former first lady is dead

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana's former first lady, vice president and deputy prime minister, Mrs. Viola Burnham, is dead. Mrs. Burnham, the widow of Guyana's first president, Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, died in Miami, Florida early yesterday morning after a battle with cancer... read more...

BUSINESS NEWS

Bahamians may be offered shares in Cayman water company

NASSAU, Bahamas: According to the Nassau Guardian, Bahamians may soon be offered the opportunity to invest in a Cayman-based water utility... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

First IVF baby born in Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The first baby, conceived by in-vitro fertilization (IVF), has been born in Barbados. The baby boy, who was conceived at the end of January, was delivered by elective caesarian at 8 a.m. on Wednesday, morning... read more...

St Maarten doctors concerned about severe shortage of nurses

PHILIPSBURG, St Maarten: According to the Daily Herald, a severe shortage of nurses at cash-strapped St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) was one of the main factors that prompted surgeon Dr. Luc Mercelina to postpone three planned elective operations this week... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Former Trinidad minister acquitted of murder charges

PORT-Of-SPAIN, Trinidad: A former Local Government Minister in Trinidad's United National Congress government, was on Thursday found "not guilty" in the murder of UNC councilor, Mr. Hansraj Soomairsingh, chairman of the Mayaro/Rio Claro Regional Corporation. Mr. Dhanraj Singh, aka, The Sheriff, thanked God, his family and supporters before rushing off to his home.... read more...

Antigua takes Repatriation of Prisoners Act to Parliament

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: The government of Antigua and Barbuda will soon make the transfer of prisoners between Antigua and Barbuda and other countries, a law... read more...

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

St. Maarten Telephone Company launches advanced wireless Internet service

TORONTO, Ontario: WaveRider Communications Inc., the leader in non-line-of-sight wireless broadband technology and deployments, has announced that its Last Mile Solution® (LMS) has been deployed by TelEm, part of the St. Maarten Telephone Company, to deliver high-speed Internet access to homes and businesses in Dutch St. Maarten... read more... 

TRAVEL NEWS

The trend to the tiny Caribbean cruise ship

REDMOND, WA: According to MSNBC, increasing numbers of Caribbean vacationers are opting for intimate vessels able to take them to secluded places... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Aussie cricketer smashes Lara's record

PERTH, Australia: Brian Lara's world batting record has been shattered. Aussie batsman, Matthew Hayden yesterday erased Lara's World test batting record of 375 by smashing 380 against Zimbabwe... read more...

Lightning still has Windies fast bowler Dillon down

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Mervyn Dillon, the West Indies fast bowler who was struck by lighting on Thursday, was scheduled to leave the University Hospital late yesterday, but still has to take it easy... read more...

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