Archives for Tuesday, December 7, 2004:

Antigua-Barbuda police to investigate travel allowances of former government ministers

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: Having made repeated allegations of mass corruption within the former government of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) during his term as Minority Leader, Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer will be presenting his findings on the practice of former ALP government ministers regarding travel allowances to the police...  read more...

St Vincent taxi drivers nervous after recent murder

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent: The discovery of a bullet riddled body of a 42 year old taxi driver in the Cane Hall area has left a number of taxi drivers in St Vincent and the Grenadines nervous...  read more...

Cuba releases another dissident journalist

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba on Monday released journalist Jorge Olivera, the seventh dissident freed since November 29 from a group of 75 opponents jailed last year in a Communist government crackdown.  Olivera, sentenced to 18 years, attributed his release to EU diplomacy and the mobilization of the prisoners' relatives... read more...

Jamaica lifts ban on US beef products

WASHINGTON, USA: The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Monday that the Jamaican Ministry of Agriculture has lifted its ban on US beef products...  read more...

COMMENTARY

Law and Politics: What is there to celebrate?

During the past two weeks we had some interesting, strange and unusual happenings in, or pertaining to our Tri-Island State and our people that deserve some comment and attention.  A very worthy landmark was the twentieth anniversary of the Prime Minister’s consecutive years of membership of Parliament... read more...

CARICOM-Cuba Day: 8th December - A time for celebration

Wednesday, 8th December is ‘CARICOM-Cuba Day’, so designated by the Heads of Government of Cuba and CARICOM countries two years ago in Havana. The occasion of the meeting was the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Cuba and four independent CARICOM countries in 1972...  read more...

TRAVEL NEWS

Viva Wyndham Resorts continues expansion in Dominican Republic

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Viva Wyndham Resorts on Monday announced the $20 million acquisition, remodel and expansion of a resort in Samana, Dominican Republic. The property will be renamed the Viva Wyndham Samana and marks the eighth property in the company's portfolio and its fifth in the Dominican Republic... read more...