Archives for Monday, June 28, 2004:

US Government slams Cayman Islands

NEW YORK, USA: Scores of the biggest U.S. companies use havens like the tax-free Cayman Islands, a British crown colony 150 miles southwest of Cuba, to escape billions of dollars in U.S. taxes, Bloomberg News reports... read more...

More allegations of corruption in Grenada

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Just weeks after serious questions have been raised concerning the acceptance by Grenada’s Prime Minister of a sum of cash from a German fraudster, other allegations have surfaced... read more...

Grenada 17 says US torture of POWs not new

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The 17 persons convicted in Grenada for the death of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his cabinet colleagues say reports of the humiliation and torture of prisoners of war in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, by their US military captors are nothing new... read more...

Improvement in Dominica’s public finances

ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica’s Financial Secretary, Mr Ambrose Sylvester, has confirmed that in the last year there has been a significant improvement in the country’s public finances... read more...

Asia's underground bookies look to the Caribbean

SINGAPORE (AFP): Independent gambling operations have not been legalised across most of Asia and these underground bookies are instead looking towards Caribbean countries such as Antigua, Costa Rica and Curacao for their licenses... read more...

Caribbean cocaine cartel broken up

BOGOTA, Colombia (AFP): US and Colombian authorities have broken up a Caribbean drug cartel that used speed boats to ship 94 tonnes of cocaine a year to the United States, Colombian police said Sunday... read more...

Cubans protest US restrictions set to take effect next week

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Some 10,000 Cubans summoned by authorities rallied Saturday against tighter US sanctions that take effect next week to try to hasten the departure from power of President Fidel Castro... read more...

Former Haitian prime minister Neptune arrested

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Former Haitian prime minister Yvon Neptune was arrested Sunday and was being detained at a prison in the capital city Port-au-Prince, police officials said... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Windies too strong for England

NOTTINGHAM, England (AFP): West Indies cruised to a seven-wicket NatWest Series one-day international win against England at Trent Bridge here Sunday... read more...

Powell powers to Jamaican 100m record

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): Asafa Powell broke the Jamaican 100-meter record here Saturday, winning in 9.91 seconds at the Jamaican Athletics Championships to secure a berth in the Athens Olympics... read more...

Ganga happy among the Bajans

West Indies opener Darren Ganga continued to enjoy his batting in Barbados as he struck another half century in the Legends division one cricket competition. Ganga, who is working hard towards regaining his place in the regional team, struck a solid 83 but was still easily upstaged by his team mate Dale Richards... read more...

World Cup 2006 CONCACAF qualifying result

MEXICO (AFP): - Result from the second leg of a 2006 World Cup CONCACAF qualifying match at Aguascalientes, Mexico:
Mexico 8 Dominica 0 (Mexico win 18-0 on aggregate)