Archives for Tuesday, August 31, 2004:

Call for Grenada PM to step aside

ST. GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The main opposition party in Grenada, as well as other parliamentarians in the region say, they will impress on CARICOM heads to ask Prime Minister Mitchell to step aside to allow the Commission of Inquiry to take place into allegations of bribery against Dr. Mitchell... read more...

Caribbean keeping a close eye on Hurricane Frances

MIAMI, USA: Several Caribbean islands on Monday were keeping a close eye on Hurricane Frances, a powerful storm packing winds of nearly 125 miles per hour.  According to the National Hurricane Center in Miami, at 11 pm EDT Monday the center of Hurricane Frances was located about 150 miles northeast of the northern Leeward Islands... read more...

Ex-soldiers take over Haiti town

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A group of former Haitian soldiers, demanding the restoration of Haiti's army, on Monday took control of Petit-Goave in southern Haiti, local media reported... read more...

Senior French official evacuated under fire in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A senior French government official was evacuated from a Haitian hospital Monday after unknown gunmen opened fire, likely with the intention of hitting him... read more...

Cuba withdraws Charge d'Affaires from Panama

HAVANA, Cuba: Cuba continues to downgrade its relations with Panama, saying it will withdraw its charge d'affaires from the Cuban embassy in Panama City... read more...

CARICOM Customs officers get valuation training

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: CARICOM Customs officials will participate in a Customs Valuation Workshop to upgrade their skills in data collection for different valuation methods from 13-17 September, in Antigua and Barbuda... read more...

No more transfers at Antigua’s ABS, for now

ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Minister of State responsible for Information, Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro, told members of the Antigua & Barbuda Media Congress (ABMC) that there would be no more external transfers at ABS in the immediate future, but shifting of staff between radio, television and GIS is expected... read more...

Dark clouds on the economic horizon for the Caribbean

LONDON, England: There are more than 20 offshore financial centres (or tax havens) in the Caribbean and Central America and, according to a report by Tax-News, some commentators are arguing that their day in the sun is nearly done... read more...

COMMENTARY

Law and Politics: Have we moved - in thirty years?

I was looking at GBN News one night last week, and the main item to me was the passage in our Parliament, through all its stages, of a Bill to do with the water supply as it will be used in ice making - for the preservation of fish for the export market to Europe... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

CARICOM region benefits from HIV/AIDS grant

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Officials of the CARICOM Secretariat and representatives of the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) last Friday signed a grant in the sum of $12.663 million to execute a project aimed at reducing the spread of the dreaded HIV/AIDS virus in the Caribbean region... read more...

TRAVEL NEWS

JetBlue starts selling new Bahamas flights from $99 each way

NEW YORK, USA: JetBlue Airways, New York's low-fare carrier, has received authority from the U.S. Department of Transportation to serve The Bahamas. JetBlue plans to launch daily service from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to Nassau, starting November 1, 2004... read more...