Archives for Monday, January 26, 2004:

Caribbean nations urge Haiti to avoid unrest

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The prime minister of the Bahamas, Perry Christie, on Sunday urged Haiti to avoid further unrest, voicing the concern of other Caribbean nations while on a visit to the troubled country... read more...

Orthodox Church leader calls US embargo of Cuba an "historical mistake"

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The leader of the Orthodox Church branded the US embargo of Cuba an "historic mistake" in a sermon Sunday during the full pomp inauguration of a new cathedral in Havana with President Fidel Castro in attendance... read more...

Bahamas meeting to develop common platform for small island states

NEW YORK, USA: Some 300 representatives of small island developing States in the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and South China Seas, and the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans will gather in the Bahamas from 26 to 30 January to attend an interregional preparatory meeting to develop a common platform for a review of the 1994 Barbados Programme of Action for Small Islands... read more...

St. Lucia may be the venue for the next tourism media exchange

CASTRIES, St. Lucia: St. Lucia's Tourism Minister Philip J. Pierre is elated at the news that St. Lucia may be the next venue for the next Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) and looks forward to welcoming the regional media and leading tourism officials to the island in June... read more...

Economic improvements in Guyana

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) and the Paris Club have agreed that Guyana has taken the steps necessary to reach its completion point under the enhanced framework of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. Guyana becomes the ninth country to reach this point... read more...

New US$7.5m highway for St Kitts

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Plans for the construction of a new highway in St. Kitts are closer to reality with the approval of financing of the project by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB)... read more...

Cuba postpones tightened controls on Internet use

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's state telephone company said it has postponed plans to limit Internet access for Cubans whose telephone bills are paid in local currency... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Kallis and fast bowlers send West Indies to record defeat

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AFP): Jacques Kallis slammed his fifth century in successive matches before South Africa's fast bowlers sent the West Indies crashing to a record defeat in the first one-day international at Newlands Sunday... read more...