Archives for Saturday, January 3, 2004:

Mbeki's visit to Haitian bicentennial comes under fire both literally and figuratively

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP): South African President Thabo Mbeki's decision to attend bicentennial celebrations in Haiti came under political fire here on Friday, with the opposition calling it a "fiasco costing millions of rand."... read more...

Cuba ready to cooperate with US in mad cow research

HAVANA, Cuba (VNA): Cuban scientists are ready to cooperate in research related to mad cows disease, after a case of the disease was found in the US... read more...

Guyana monitoring importation of meat

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The government of Guyana has implemented additional monitoring mechanisms to safeguard the country from Bovine Spongiform Encepholopathy (BSE or mad cow disease)... read more...

US/Bahamas Tax Agreement comes into effect

WASHINGTON, USA: Part of the tax and information exchange agreement (TIEA) between the United States and the Bahamas came into effect on Thursday, January 1 giving the latter the status of a permanent Qualified Jurisdiction, according to Tax-News.com... read more...

Cuba would have been swimming in Parmalat milk

MILAN, Italy: As details emerge of the fictitious and fraudulent transactions that masked the true financial state of affairs at bankrupt Italian food giant Pamalat, one of the most bizarre to date is the purported sale by a Cayman Islands-registered Parmalat subsidiary of enough milk to Cuba to provide every Cuban with about 250 litres of milk a year... read more...

Guyanese respond to New Year's text messages from President

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyanese welcomed a text message sent all mobile users conveying best wishes for the New Year by President Bharrat Jagdeo and First Lady Varshnie Jagdeo... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Rudolph ends century drought before West Indies fight back

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP): South African batsman Jacques Rudolph made his first Test hundred for nine months on Friday but the first day of the third Test at Newlands ended in disappointment for his team as the West Indies hit back... read more...

Kenya leave for their first-ever tour of the West Indies

NAIROBI, Kenya (AFP): The Kenya cricket team left for a tour of the West Indies on Friday, their first overseas tour since the Sharjah Cup in the United Arab Emirates last April... read more...