Archives for Monday, February 21, 2005:

New CARICOM Secretariat building dedicated 

GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Speaking at the dedication ceremony Saturday, Guyana's President Bharaat Jagdeo, says the new CARICOM Secretariat building located at Liliendaal is proof of the fortitude of Caribbean people. However, he added that the building must represent something more meaningful other than a mere physical structure... read more...

Haiti drug gang in mass prison break-out, former ministers recaptured

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): An armed gang stormed Haiti's main prison and freed hundreds of prisoners including two jailed former government ministers in a bid to release drug traffickers, a Haitian government source said, while police announced that a number of detainees had already been recaptured... read more...

Trinidad & Tobago CJ says charges are not true

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago's Chief Justice, Sat Sharma, now embroiled in allegations of misconduct, has vehemently denied that he had ever sought help from either Attorney General John Jeremie or Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Geoffrey Henderson in the alleged aborting of the prosecution of Dr. Vijay Naraynsingh and others... read more...

Caribbean Court of Justice headquarters agreement signed

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Trinidad and Tobago has signed the instruments formalising assent to the Headquarters of the Caribbean Court of Justice being located in Port-of-Spain. Foreign Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Knowlson Gift signed the document at the conclusion of the 16th Inter-sessional meeting of CARICOM in Suriname... read more...

Caribbean renews commitment to combat terrorism

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: The Inter-American Committee against Terrorism (CICTE) of the Organization of American States (OAS) ended the fifth regular session Thursday with a fresh commitment to combat and eliminate terrorism “in all its forms and manifestations, whatever its origin or motivation.”.. read more...

Trinidad and Tobago passes anti-terror bill

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Trinidad and Tobago House of Representatives, late Friday night, passed the Anti-Terrorism Bill 2004, notwithstanding the Minority United National Congress (UNC) of Minority Leader Basdeo Panday voting against, while declaring their intention to ask the law courts to declare it unconstitutional... read more...

Belize introduces machine-readable passports

BELMOPAN, Belize: A state-of-the-art passport issuance system which will help in reducing the possibility of counterfeiting, forgery and other forms of fraud on travel documents was inaugurated in Belize on Friday... read more...

Green light for journalist's work permit in St Kitts

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (ACM): St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has said the green light has been given for the granting of a work permit to ACM General-Secretary, Clive Bacchus... read more...

Bahamas Foreign Minister pushes CSME agreement

NASSAU, Bahamas: In 1989, the member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) decided that the CARICOM Common Market should be changed into the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).  Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell Mitchell told Rotarians he was “surprised” that there should be any anxiety about this.... read more...

Regional wireless technology summit to target business decision makers

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Jamaica's Central Information Technology Office (CITO), Michael duQuesnay has explained that the 2005 Regional Summit on Wireless Technology is not aimed at Information Technology (IT) personnel, but would target business decision makers.... read more...

War on drugs in Barbados continues in earnest

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Royal Barbados Police Force’s strong enforcement strategies seem to be bearing fruit, with lawmen seizing illegal drugs last year with an estimated street value of some BDS $19 million.... read more...

Chinese UN troops in Haiti dream of home, vacation in the US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): In tropical Haiti, 138 Chinese policemen encamped in an old warehouse as part of a UN force try to recreate the atmosphere of their distant home, all the while dreaming of seeing the much nearer United States.... read more...

LETTERS

Keeping Bernard Coard in prison will make him a Grenadian hero

Keeping Bernard Coard in jail for a long time can make him a hero. It is over twenty years since Coard and his gang of urban Marxists took power from Maurice Bishop in a bloody coup... read more...

Disney and the Caribs

Disney is set to start shooting Parts 2 & 3 of Pirates of the Caribbean in Dominica and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines this spring... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Carib Beer 2005 Cricket Series Day 2 Summary

A five-wicket haul by Leeward Island's medium pacer Kerry Jeremy highlighted the second day of the seventh round match against Barbados in the Carib Beer 2005 Cricket Series in Molyneaux, St. Kitts on Saturday... read more...

Jamaica's Campbell feels NCAA wrath again

KINGSTON, Jamaica: After preventing Olympic 200-metres champion Veronica Campbell from competing in two events at last weekend's Powered by Tyson Invitational meet, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) now tabulates the Jamaican as an academic blot on the University of Arkansas... read more...

Jamaican international cleared of drug charge

NORTHAMPTON, England: Former Coventry City striker, Jamaican Onandi Lowe, has been cleared of trying to smuggle more than £100,000 worth of crack cocaine into the UK... read more...

Sydney to sign Trinidad's Yorke despite car crash probe

BIRMINGHAM, England:  Sydney FC is set to sign Trinidad and Tobago international Dwight Yorke despite the player facing a police investigation over a recent car accident on the island of Trinidad... read more...

Campbell, Clarke and Lawrence win in Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, England: In the midst of Russia's Yelena Isinbayeva world record clearance in the women's pole vault, Jamaicans Davian Clarke and Olympic relay gold medallists Tanya Lawrence and Veronica Campbell registered wins at the Norwich Union Indoor Grand Prix in Birmingham on Friday... read more...

Cricket World Cup calls for a team effort

KINGSTON. Jamaica: Chris Dehring, Managing Director and CEO of ICC Cricket World Cup WI 2007, has come out in support of recent comments made by former Australian Cabinet Minister Tom Roper on just how much is resting on the forthcoming ICC Cricket World Cup 2007... read more...