Archives for Thursday, December 16, 2004:

Trinidad and Tobago hosts ACS 10th ministerial meeting

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Ministers with responsibility for Foreign Affairs of the Association of Caribbean States (ACS) are gathering today at the Crown Plaza Hotel in the city of Port of Spain, for the organisation’s 10th Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers. The ACS is an organisation for consultation, cooperation and concerted action... read more...

Caricom leaders support Annan amid oil-for-food accusations

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): The Caribbean Community (Caricom) has stated its support for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan despite allegations of corruption in Iraq's oil-for-food programme... read more...

Next two years crucial to the Caribbean tourism debate in the EU

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: 2004 stands out in the history of Caribbean tourism as a benchmark year, in terms of growth as well as in the success of its advocacy program to move tourism further up the political agenda in Europe... read more...

U.S. renews support for progress in Haiti election preparations

WASHINGTON, USA : Ambassador Roger F. Noriega, the United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, has renewed the firm US commitment to that Caribbean nation and to the work of the OAS and United Nations in helping Haiti’s Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) prepare for elections...  read more...

Portuguese plane returns to Cuba after false bomb alert

LISBON (AFP): A SATA plane heading to Portugal from Cuba was forced to return to the island after a passenger found a message warning that a bomb was on board, a spokeswoman for the Portuguese airliner said Wednesday...  read more...

US refuses to remove controversial Christmas decorations in Cuba

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The United State refused Wednesday to take down controversial Christmas decorations at its mission in Havana and denied a holiday tribute to Cuban political prisoners was provocative... read more...

Cuba decries US Christmas lights amid wargames, trade talks

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): No Christmas truce was in sight Wednesday in US-Cuban relations, as Havana launched wargames and threatened reprisals for US holiday lights shining over the capital... read more...

Venezuela, Cuba spurn US leadership on free trade area

CUBA Havana: Cuba and Venezuela on Wednesday rejected a US-inspired pan-American free trade zone saying that it would only make Latin American countries more dependent on the United States... read more...

Castro ends year in wheelchair clinging to power

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro, 78, is ending the year in a wheelchair, his arm in a cast, but the old revolutionary continues to do just as he pleases, making Cuba, his adversaries say, a crumbling museum of the dreams of his youth... read more...

LEGAL NEWS

Trinidad Prime Minister had no power in National Lotteries Control Board matter

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A high court judge ruled on Tuesday that Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Patrick Manning had no authority to object to the appointment of Devant Maharaj for the position of deputy director of the National Lotteries Control Board... read more...

TRAVEL NEWS

Abercrombie & Kent Destination clubs acquire three luxurious catamarans in BVI

SOUTHPORT, USA: Abercrombie & Kent Destination Clubs, the founder and market leader of the fast-growing Destination Club industry, has acquired three additional on-water residences in response to member demand for its sailing program. The 56- to 60-foot catamarans, including two 56-foot Fountaine Pajot Marquises, are each worth nearly $1 million and based out of the British Virgin Island...  read more...