Archives for Tuesday, April 27, 2004:

Guyana's security ministry firebombed

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Arsonists late Sunday hurled Molotov cocktails at Guyana's security ministry, amid ongoing demands by the political opposition and other organisations for a probe into Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj's alleged links to an extrajudicial death squad... read more...

South African opposition says Aristide not welcome

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP): South Africa's main opposition party said Sunday that Jean-Bertrand Aristide was not welcome following reports that the former Haitian president would soon take up asylum here... read more...

Miami radio station fined over Castro crank call

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The Spanish-language radio station in Miami that crank called Cuban leader Fidel Castro faces a 4,000 dollar fine, according to federal regulators... read more...

10 Cuban dissidents jailed for more than two years face court

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban dissident Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, a blind man jailed for more than two years, was put on trial Monday along with nine other government opponents, dissidents told AFP... read more...

Iranian police in Guyana to probe scholar's abduction

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Iranian police were in Guyana on Monday, probing the abduction of an Iranian scholar earlier this month, amid concerns among Shiites here that Guyanese police had been slow to solve the case... read more...

OECS court grants a stay

ST. GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The OECS Court of Appeal has granted a stay of execution of the judgment handed down by Justice Kenneth Benjamin in the High Court on March 16, 2004... read more...

St Kitts-Nevis and Venezuela to strengthen ties

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas and the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez Frias have agreed to strengthen the economic, commercial and cultural bonds between both countries... read more...