Archives for Friday, September 10, 2004:

Hurricane Ivan leaves up to 33 dead in Caribbean

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AFP): Hurricane Ivan hurtled toward Jamaica Thursday after devastating the Caribbean island of Grenada, where up to 24 people died, and killing nine others in Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Tobago.  The deadly storm packed winds of up to 150 miles per hour as it headed for Jamaica... read more...

Jamaica braces for Hurricane Ivan's wrath

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica (AFP): Jamaica was in full alert mode Thursday as powerful Hurricane Ivan closed in for what forecasters fear could be the worst natural catastrophe to hit the island in the past 50 years.  Jamaica has already issued a hurricane warning for the densely populated island of 2.7 million... read more...

Hurricane Ivan brushes Bonaire; minimal damage reported

KRALENDIJK, Bonaire N.A.: Bonaire's residents and visitors alike woke up Thursday morning to a beautiful sunrise. Overnight fast-moving Hurricane Ivan passed north of Bonaire, brushing the island and causing moderate rainfall, rough waves and strong winds... read more...

Curaçao’s tourism industry back in business after Ivan passes to the north

WILLEMSTAD, Curaçao: Curaçao Tourist Board officials report that tourism facilities in Curaçao are fully operational after Hurricane Ivan passed some considerable distance to the north of the island during the night of September 8th... read more...

St. Kitts and Nevis largely unaffected by Hurricane Ivan

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Although St. Kitts and Nevis remains largely unaffected by Hurricane Ivan, which passed some 420 miles south-south-east of St. Kitts on Wednesday morning, its back winds generated 9-foot waves that pounded the island’s Caribbean coast... read more...

Haitian police detain 86 in pro-Aristide slum

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian police have arrested 86 people in an effort to disarm gangs in a Port-au-Prince slum considered a bastion of supporters of former president Jean Bertrand Aristide, police said Thursday... read more...

Veterans army threatens new turmoil in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Barely six months after its president fled in the face of a rebel uprising, Haiti faces new troubles from former soldiers demanding the reformation of the army that was broken up in 1995... read more...

Spanish parliament to approve troops for Haiti

MADRID, Spain (AFP): The Spanish parliament will Friday approve the dispatch of a joint Spanish-Moroccan battalion to Haiti as part of a UN mission to stabilise the strife-torn country, El Pais daily reported on Thursday... read more...

Antigua and Barbuda PM challenges Stanford Group

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua: Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer has challenged financier R. Allen Stanford, to invest in holistic human development; and in national infrastructure in Antigua and Barbuda.  The Prime Minister’s challenge to Mr. Stanford came when the two met at discussions... read more...

Montserrat prisoners return

BRADES, Montserrat (GIU): Montserrat's Prison Chief says the last seven prisoners who have been serving their sentences overseas since the onset of volcanic activity on the island in the mid 1990's are back home... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

CONCACAF World Cup qualifying results and standings

PARIS, France (AFP): Collated results on Wednesday in 2006 World Cup qualifying matches in the North and Central America and Caribbean (CONCACAF) region... read more...