Archives for Tuesday, March 2, 2004:

Rebels enter Haitian capital as US dismisses Aristide abduction claims

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Huge crowds welcomed rebels into the Haitian capital on Monday as US and French troops started a peacekeeping mission to restore calm after the departure of President Jean Bertrand Aristide... read more...

CARICOM leaders to hold emergency summit on Haiti

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders will hold an emergency meeting in Jamaica Tuesday to discuss how the region could help bring to stability to Haiti following Jean Bertrand Aristide's fleeing into exile, Guyana's Foreign Minister, Rudy Insanally, said Sunday... read more...

Bermuda Premier calls for independence referendum

HAMILTON, Bermuda: Bermuda's premier has called for a national debate on independence from Britain and said the wealthy island can fully develop only if it breaks centuries-old colonial ties... read more...

Dominican PM wins party vote

ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit received a vote of confidence in his leadership by trouncing challengers for the Dominica Labour Party's (DLP) top post at its delegates' conference in Grand Fond on Sunday... read more...

Canadian politician wants to annex Turks & Caicos Islands

TORONTO, Canada: Oshawa Councillor Robert Lutczyk will ask fellow council members later this month to annex the Turks and Caicos Islands and include the British colony within Oshawa's municipal borders reports the Toronto Star... read more...

Amnesty International urges Jamaica to support ICC

LONDON, England: Amnesty International has called on Jamaican Prime Minister P J Patterson to ratify the Rome Statue for the International Criminal Court. Jamaica, as a key supporter of the establishment of the Court since 1989, should join other Caribbean states in completing the ratification process as soon as possible, Amnesty International stressed... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Vaughan issues early warning to Windies with fluent century

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): England captain Michael Vaughan used the relaxed atmosphere of his side's non-first class Caribbean tour opener to send an early warning to West Indies when he hit a century before lunch as England set upon some friendly Jamaica bowling on Monday... read more...