Archives for Tuesday, January 4, 2005:

Cuba resumes diplomatic contacts with eight EU countries

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The Cuban government announced Monday it was renewing diplomatic contacts with eight European Union countries that have stopped inviting dissidents to official embassy functions... read more...

New governor of Puerto Rico takes office

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AFP): Anibal Acevedo Vila was sworn in Sunday as governor of the US commonwealth of Puerto Rico with a ringing call for political unity in the Caribbean island... read more...

COMMENTARY

2005: Ringing in the Caribbean Single Market?

CARICOM countries should all bring the Caribbean Single Market into being by the end of 2005 in the interest of their nations and the region as whole. The slippage from a start date in January 2005 has already delayed economic progress.  Except for the Bahamas, all CARICOM countries had committed to a start date of 1 January 2005... read more...

Law and Politics: The dog, the bone and the shadow

To be ambitious, or industrious, or aiming to reach the top or some higher position, is clearly by itself very human and commendable, in this competitive and materialistic society we all live in.  And it is the ones who lack those qualities, or simply refuse to adopt and follow those examples in others, who will suffer and fail in this life... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Lara no problem for me, says new Windies coach

MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP): New West Indies cricket coach Bennett King says there are no problems in his working relationship with team captain Brian Lara... read more...

Lara given all-clear to play in Asian tsunami relief match

MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP): West Indies captain Brian Lara was Monday given the official all-clear to play for the Rest of the World against an Asian XI in a tsunami relief cricket match here on January 10... read more...