Archives for Saturday, April 3, 2004:

Powell to visit Haiti Monday

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP): US Secretary of State Colin Powell will visit Haiti next week, his spokesman announced on Friday on the sidelines of a visit by Powell to Brussels... read more...

Guyana says Caribbean should reject Aristide extradition

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo said Friday that Caribbean nations should oppose moves by the interim Haitian government to extradite ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide on embezzlement and murder charges... read more...

Antigua PM leads team in talks with ECCB officials

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: Antigua and Barbuda's newly appointed Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer, is heading a four-man team of Ministers in discussions with a team of officials from the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB)... read more...

Caribbean tourism efforts continue in Europe

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: Following up on the successful Caribbean tourism policy workshop hosted last November by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), a delegation of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) has met with Member of Parliament, George Foulkes, and John Marshall, Head of the Caribbean Unit of the FCO, in London, to explore in more detail the areas where the British Government may collaborate with the Caribbean tourism industry... read more...

Draft cruise tourism policy submitted in BVI

ROAD TOWN, BVI: Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands, Dr. D. Orlando Smith has underscored the importance of the cruise industry in the BVI, saying it must be managed as part of the wider tourism sector, which is vital to the local economy... read more...

Grenada’s credit rating improves

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Grenada’s ability to improve its creditworthiness has again been reflected in the ratings by the Institutional Investor magazine.... read more...

Innovative Communication takes control of Belize Telecoms

WEST PALM BEACH, USA: Innovative Communication Corporation LLC (ICC) took management control Friday of Belize Telecommunications Ltd. (BTL) from Lord Michael Ashcroft and Carlisle Holdings Ltd., as announced by Jeffrey J. Prosser, ICC's chairman and CEO... read more...

Prime Ministers Gonsalves and Spencer hold talks

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves arrived in Antigua Friday for talks with Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer on the future of LIAT and a number of other issues... read more...

Antigua Government moves to transform tourism product

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua: The Government of Antigua and Barbuda is to mount an all-embracing rescue mission of the tourism sector designed to propel rapid transformation of the quality of the tourism product and produce significant levels of innovative destination marketing... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Thorpe ton takes fight out of West Indies

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP): Graham Thorpe's 13th Test hundred and questionable tactics from the opposing captain helped England to wriggle free from the West Indies' vice on the second day of the third Test on Friday... read more...