Archives for Thursday, September 30, 2004:

Looters attack food depot in storm-ravaged Haiti

GONAIVES, Haiti (AFP): Looters staged new attacks on food aid stores in northern Haiti Wednesday, forcing stretched UN forces to step up efforts to protect humanitarian aid after devastating floods... read more...

USAID support for CSME public education programme

BRADES, Montserrat (GIU): The people of Montserrat will benefit under a CARICOM technical assistance valued at over half-a-million US dollars from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for Public Education on the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).. read more...

Grenada's former PM a looting victim

ST GEORGE'S Grenada: Not only supermarkets and large warehouse owners suffered from the hands of looters shortly after the passage of Hurricane Ivan but former Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite was a victim as well... read more...

Grenadian authorities acknowledge food for sex reports

ST GEORGE'S Grenada: After Grenada’s police through its media consultant had castigated Caribbean Net News and its local correspondent for publishing a report that relief supplies are being traded by some members of the security forces in exchange for sexual favours, they have been forced to acknowledge that they have received several reports of similar nature from the public... read more...

Formidable challenges threaten small states, says St Kitts PM

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister and Minster of Finance, Dr. Denzil Douglas said Tuesday that the global economic system continues to throw up new and extremely formidable challenges to small states that quite often threaten the very survival of such nations... read more...

Dominica parliament approves CCJ legislation

ROSEAU, Dominica: The Parliament of the Commonwealth of Dominica has passed two pieces of legislation to give effect to Dominica’s participation in the soon to be established Caribbean Court of Justice... read more...

Taiwan ambassador presents US$1.4m cheque to St Kitts for stadium

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Taiwan presented a US$1.4 million cheque to St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas on Tuesday for the redevelopment of Warner Park as a venue for World Cup Cricket in 2007... read more...

Cayman Islands elections postponed following Hurricane Ivan

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: As a result of the devastation caused to the Cayman islands by Hurricane Ivan, the general elections that were due to be held on November 17, 2004 have been postponed until next year... read more...

Hurricane Ivan and cricket uniting the Caribbean

ST GEORGE'S Grenada: West Indies cricketers have toured the hurricane-ravaged Spice Isle so as to get a first hand view of the devastation caused by Ivan the Terrible... read more...