Archives for Wednesday, July 7, 2004:

Concerns over inquiry in Grenada

ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: A leading attorney and the main opposition party in Grenada are warning that only an inquiry with the blessing of the advice of parliament should be instituted so as to determine what transpired in Switzerland between Prime Minister Keith Mitchell and fraudster Eric Resteiner... read more...

Prison guards beat dissident in Cuban prison

MIAMI, USA (AFP): Cuban prison guards beat dissident Jorge Luis Garcia Perez and relatives who visited him in prison, exile groups claimed Tuesday, quoting a sister of the prisoner... read more...

Canada to send police, funding to Haiti

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Prime Minister Paul Martin said Monday that Canada will send 100 police officers to Haiti in the next three months to help stabilize the Caribbean nation as international peacekeeping troops are withdrawn... read more...

US to terminate special immigration programme for Montserrat nationals

BRADES, Montserrat (GIU): Tom Ridge, United States Secretary of Homeland Security, has officially announced the termination of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for nationals from Montserrat, according to a report published in the US Federal Register of July 6... read more...

Economies will suffer if Caribbean ignores tourism

CASTRIES, ST Lucia: At the Counterpart International Caribbean Media Exchange in St. Lucia, Richard Miller, Executive Vice President for the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) presented a report requiring full attention by the Caribbean industry key players, if the region is to succeed... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

Pakistan kidney transplants worry Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): The deaths of three Trinidadians who received kidney transplants in Pakistan are causing local doctors to query the procedures, local press reported Tuesday... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Club Med named in multi-million dollar lawsuit over confiscated Cuban property

MIAMI, USA: A 95 year-old woman whose family owned a portion of the Varadero beachfront in Cuba before the Communist Revolution will file suit on Thursday against the Paris-based Club Med resort chain for building and operating a luxury hotel on land she says the Castro regime attempted to confiscate in the 1960s... read more...

COMMENTARY

Law and Politics: The crows coming home to roost

The quote from Julius Caesar which said… “The evil that men do lives after them – the good is often interred with their bones,” is normally associated with people after their deaths... read more...

Cuban sentiments remain strong

While many Cuban exiles are upset with new rules making it more difficult for them to visit relatives who remain in Cuba, it should not be mistaken in any way as support for the communist government that has run the Caribbean island nation since 1959... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

West Indies into final after beating England

LONDON, England (AFP): Chris Gayle's 132 not out in his 100th one-day international took West Indies into the Natwest Series final with a seven-wicket win against England at Lord's here Tuesday... read more...

World Cup fans to stay afloat

LONDON, England (AFP): Floating hotels are set to help countries in the West Indies cope with the massive influx of cricket followers expected during the 2007 World Cup... read more...