Archives for Tuesday, November 23, 2004:

Repairs will take millions says Dominican PM

GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands: Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, says that, although he cannot call a "round" figure as yet, it is going to take millions of dollars to repair the damage done to his country by the earthquake which shook the 289.9 square mile island at about 7:40 on Sunday morning... read more...

Floods take another life in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The change of weather patterns is arousing grave concerns among Trinidadians as heavy rains brought renewed flooding claiming the life of a middle-aged woman on Sunday... read more...

USAID gives Grenada US$40 million

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: In a significant demonstration of support and friendship, the United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), officially signed a US$40.337 million hurricane recovery program with the Government of Grenada last week... read more...

US Government gives uniforms and equipment to Grenada police

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Grenada police force received a much-needed boost recently when the United States Government presented them with US$50,000 worth of uniforms.  The force, like most of Grenada, received a severe battering from Hurricane Ivan which hit the island on September 7, 2004... read more...

Jamaica government approves oil exploration in exclusive zone

KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Jamaican Cabinet has approved the arrangements by which the Jamaican Government, through the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ), will initiate a round of petroleum exploration within Jamaica’s Exclusive Economic Zone...  read more...

Chinese president heads to financially-strapped Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Chinese President Hu Jintao headed to Havana Monday for talks with his Cuban counterpart Fidel Castro that were expected to bring badly needed investments to the financially strapped island...  read more...

Rid Haiti of illegal weapons, says UN

UNITED NATIONS (UPI): Citing the deteriorating situation in Haiti, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is calling for removal of all illegal weapons from the nation's streets...  read more...

Haiti's interim PM confident Haiti can handle democracy

PARIS, France (AFP): Haiti's interim Prime Minister Gerard Latortue expressed confidence Monday that his small strife-torn country is able to handle democracy...  read more...

BVI Governor calls for loyalty from new citizens

ROAD TOWN, BVI: Governor Thomas Macan of the British Virgin Islands has called on 71 persons who received naturalisation certificates last Friday to be loyal citizens of the Territory...  read more...

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Digicel introduces rollover minutes in seven Caribbean countries

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Digicel Group on Monday launched rollover minutes, a new offering that allows customers in the seven Caribbean countries in which the mobile telecommunications company operates to keep their unused monthly minutes...  read more...

COMMENTARY

Law and Politics: Why should we abandon standards and decency?

This great universe that we inhabit, as pilgrims on our way to the even greater beyond, has become so inter-connected by technology and mass communication, that we look on it and refer to it as the Global Village -- because what happens in the Far East at any point in time is in our living rooms in the far West almost as it is happening...  read more...

Message for Trinidad government in corruption poll

The ruling PNM made corruption a major plank of its last election campaign, campaigning against it up and down the country. The message appeared to fall on receptive ears, with the party scoring a clear 20-16 victory at the polls...  read more...