Archives for Tuesday, November 18, 2003:

Tourists stranded in the Caribbean after collapse of Swiss operator

BASEL, Switzerland (AFP): Holiday-makers left stranded in the Caribbean following to the collapse late last week of a Swiss tour operator, Avione, have started to return home, officials said Monday.  An Air France flight is expected to arrive in Paris on Wednesday carrying tourists who had been stranded in the Dominican Republic following the tour operator's bankruptcy filing last Friday... read more...

Dominican Republic president says he will not be intimidated by strikes

BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): Dominican President Hipolito Mejia said Monday he would not be intimidated by threats to call another general strike like the one last week in which seven people were killed... read more...

Cuban dissidents join forces following crackdown

LISBON, Spain (AFP): Cuban dissident groups joined forces on the island and boosted their ties with supporters abroad after Havana launched a massive crackdown on their activities in March, a veteran Cuban human rights activist said in an interview published Monday... read more...

Heavy rain hits roads in British Virgin Islands

ROAD TOWN, BVI: The British Virgin Islands Minister for Communications and Works, Mr Paul Wattley, has appealed to drivers to stay away from the roads in the hills, the Ridge road and areas where clean-up is in progress... read more...

FTAA deadline in question

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: CARICOM countries are expected to maintain their unified position at the upcoming Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Free Trade Areas of the Americas scheduled for Miami on November 20-21... read more...

Dominica government delays amendments to banking law

ROSEAU, Dominica: The Pierre Charles administration in Dominica today bowed to pressure from the Dominica Cooperative Societies League and the credit unions by delaying amendments to the Banking Act.  In other news from Dominica, the IMG gives the government a passing grade and the attorney general comes under fire... read more...

British police to probe 20-year-old murder in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A small team of British police is due to arrive in Guyana to help investigate a killing that occurred more than two decades ago... read more...

St. Vincent marks Playboy's 50th anniversary with six commemorative postage stamps

NEW YORK, USA: The Caribbean will only get hotter when a series of international postage stamps depicting 50 years of Playboy's most memorable covers is issued by St. Vincent and the Grenadines... read more...

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

Proposal to honour Joseph Niles attracts support

Growing up in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, I listened to radio stations from many of the Caribbean islands. One could not have escaped the popularity of Joseph Niles and the Consolers and the frequency with which his songs came across the airwaves on a daily basis... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Legal proceedings filed against the Cayman Islands Attorney General and Chief Justice

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Two separate legal proceedings were filed last week in the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands naming the Attorney General and the Chief Justice respectively as defendants... read more...

TRAVEL NEWS

US Virgin Islands earns Award of Excellence

US VIRGIN ISLANDS: The USVI Commissioner of Tourism Pamela C. Richards has announced that the United States Virgin Islands has been selected to receive the 2003 Award of Excellence from Corporate & Incentive Travel Magazine. The magazine's subscribers voted for tourism bureaus that best served corporate meetings and/or incentive travel programs in the past year... read more...