Archives for Sunday, December 28, 2003:

Parmalat founder arrested as probe continues into missing Cayman billions

ROME, Italy (AFP): Stricken Italian food group Parmalat was declared insolvent Saturday, as financial police arrested the company's founder Calisto Tanzi in a fraud probe into billions of dollars missing from the company's Cayman Islands subsidiaries... read more...

Jamaica wins at 2003 Travel Weekly Awards

NEW YORK, USA: The island of Jamaica was recognized as the number one destination in the Caribbean for 2003 at the Travel Weekly Readers Choice Awards on Thursday, December 18 at The Pierre in New York City... read more...

Royal Olympia cruise ship impounded in St Thomas

ST THOMAS, USVI: More than 800 passengers aboard the Olympia Voyager, which departed from Port Everglades Dec. 17 on a 16-day Amazon River cruise, have spent the past week anchored off St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, unable to set sail because of a bankruptcy proceeding... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Gibbs century puts South Africa on top

DURBAN, South Africa (AFP): Herschelle Gibbs stroked a magnificent century as South Africa moved into a strong position on the second day of the second Test at Kingsmead Saturday... read more...