Archives for Tuesday, July 20, 2004:

US grand jury probes Halliburton’s Cayman subsidiary

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The embattled US oil and gas service company Halliburton that until four years ago was headed by Vice President Richard Cheney is under grand jury investigation for suspected illegal dealings with Iran through a Cayman Islands subsidiary, the firm disclosed Monday... read more...

US votes to cut funds to Caribbean allies in International Court

WASHINGTON, USA: The US House of Representatives voted last week to impose further sanctions on Caribbean and other countries that have ratified the International Criminal Court treaty... read more...

Cuba, Mexico agree to send back ambassadors after spat

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba and Mexico agreed Sunday to send back their ambassadors to the countries' respective capitals as they moved to mend a two-and-a-half-month-old diplomatic spat that hurt bilateral relations... read more...

Haiti confident donors will pay for rebuilding

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue said Monday he expects donors meeting here will agree to fund a 1.3-billion-dollar program to rebuild the shattered country... read more...

Guyana bitter about EU sugar prices

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Sugar workers, managers and Guyanese government officials on Monday picketed EU offices demanding Europe re-consider its plan to cut the purchase price of sugar... read more...

Police in St Kitts refute claim protest march route was changed

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Police in St Kitts and Nevis have refuted claims by top officials of the opposition People’s Action Movement (PAM) that police changed the route of a poorly attended protest march at the last minute... read more...

Analysis: Cuba policy may hurt Bush

MIAMI, USA (UPI): It couldn't be more symbolic. On one side of Himes Avenue in Tampa, Fla., stood 130 rain-soaked Cuban-Americans protesting President Bush's new travel restrictions to their homeland. On the other side were 100 more protesters, equally as wet, supporting Bush's new initiative... read more...

Bahamas enacts new financial services laws

NASSAU, Bahamas: The Bahamas Financial Services Board has announced that a number of financial services laws tabled in the House of Assembly this year have now been passed and are in the process of being gazetted... read more...

US-Barbados tax treaty tightened to prevent evasion

WASHINGTON, USA: The governments of the United States and Barbados last week signed an agreement designed to counter tax evasion under the 1984 Income Tax Treaty between the two nations... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

HIV couple say "I Do" in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Close family members and friends and different AIDS organisations attended the wedding in Trinidad of an HIV couple over the weekend... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Wanted: Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands

LONDON, England: Discreetly advertised last week is the post of Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands, the small archipelago of 40 islands and coral "cays" south-east of the Bahamas and one of Britain's few remaining colonies, though now it goes by the name of a "dependent territory".... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Ton-up Chanderpaul gives Windies Test boost

LONDON, England (AFP): Shivnarine Chanderpaul warmed up for Thursday's first Test against England with a stylish unbeaten century as the West Indies drew their three-day match against Sri Lanka A at Shenley on Monday... read more...