Archives for Thursday, January 13, 2005:

Bahamas police send files in alleged rape case to attorney general's office

NASSAU, The Bahamas: Paul Farquharson, Commissioner of Police in the Bahamas, announced Wednesday that the report into the investigation of Minister of Works Bradley Roberts has reached completion and the file forwarded to the Attorney General's Office for further review and to determine whether or not charges will be laid... read more...

Grenada’s 2005 budget to be presented late March

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada:  The people of Grenada will play an active role in the preparation of the 2005 budget according to a news release by the Government of Grenada.  Finance minister Anthony Boatswain is expected to present the 2005 budget towards the end of March of this year... read more...

St Lucia's private sector encouraged to attend Jamaica forum

CASTRIES, St. Lucia: Business people across St. Lucia, including local entrepreneurs and potential investors, are being strongly encouraged to take part in the upcoming China/Caribbean Economic Trade Co-operation Forum slated for Jamaica in February and runs from the second to the fifth... read more...

Suriname trade minister calls for more cement factories in CARICOM

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: The Surinamese trade minister, Michael Jong Tjien Fa, has called for more cement factories in the region. He says that the monopoly of the few cement producers in CARICOM is hurting the economic development of the Caribbean.  According to Jong Tjien Fa there should be at least five cement factories... read more...

Family to visit Cuban dissident

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFP): A Cuban dissident will be able to visit two grandchildren she has never met, although Cuba continues to refuse her an exit visa, her son said Tuesday... read more...

Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago unite to solve CCJ woes

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The controversy brewing over the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has encouraged a co-operative effort between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to settle the dust threatening the prospects for Caribbean unity... read more...

Change for Barbadian students taking the common entrance exam

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: As of this year, all Class Four primary school students under 11 years of age and desirous of writing the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Exam (Common Entrance Exam) must have obtained 85 percent and over in Mathematics and English during the six preceding terms before the exam... read more...

Exploits of Caribbean pirates highlighted by museum

KEY WEST, USA (AFP): An original pirate banner and a treasure chest that belonged to Thomas Tew are the crown jewels of Pirate Soul, a new museum that opened recently in Key West and is dedicated to those hated brigands or heroes, depending on which point of view one prefers.  "Welcome to Port Royal" greet those who enter the museum... read more...

COMMENTARY

Law and Politics: They cannot send me back anywhere!

A very famous English Judge, Lord Mansfield, once said, “We must not regard political consequences; however formidable they might be: If rebellion was the certain consequence, we are bound to say “Fiat Justitia, ruat caelum”. Translated, the last four Latin words mean Let Justice be done, though the heavens fall... read more...

Buying off Haiti’s “thugs”

For months, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) has been calling attention to the incompetence, irresponsibility and blatantly lawless practices of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue’s interim government in Haiti... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Champions square off in opener

The 2003 World Cup Champions and the 2004 ICC Champions Trophy winners are set to do battle in the opening encounter of the VB triangular series this weekend... read more...