Archives for Monday, April 11, 2005:

Over 100 Trinidad businesses destroyed by fire

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A multimillion dollar fire in Port-of-Spain on Saturday, gutted over 140 businesses leaving hundreds of people out of work.  Fire officials at the Wrighton Road Fire Station told Caribbean Net News that the inferno at the popular People's Mall, destroyed several business places... read more...

Curacao votes for more autonomy

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP): The largest of the five Dutch Antilles islands, Curacao, on Friday overwhelmingly voted to become an autonomous state within the kingdom of the Netherlands while tiny Sint Eustatius chose to uphold the status quo, Dutch media reported Saturday... read more...

Barbados PM says Tobago better off with Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados Prime Minister, Owen Arthur, has sparked-off serious discord with the statement that, "Tobago would be better off in a union with Barbados than Trinidad."  Arthur made the statement during an interaction with members of the Tobago press at his Ilaro Court Residence... read more...

Rivals US, Antigua claim win as WTO revises gambling ruling

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The United States and Antigua both claimed to be winners Thursday after the World Trade Organization partly reversed an earlier ruling on US restrictions on cross-border gaming on the Internet... read more...

Ex-dictator Bouterse to run in Suriname election

PARAMARIBO, Suriname (AFP): Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse will run for the presidency as a candidate in the South American nation's May 25 parliamentary election, according to nominations published Saturday.  Opinion polls have indicated that Bouterse is the most popular leader... read more...

CARICOM gaining considerable political power in the OAS

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A great deal of interest is being paid to Monday's Organization of American States (OAS) election of a new Secretary General for the hemispheric body.  The heightened interest is stemming from the fact that some fourteen countries in the Caribbean are said to be holding the key to the election of the next Secretary General... read more...

Man shot and killed by police during escape bid in St Kitts

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: A 36-year-old man was shot and killed in St Kitts during an escape bid last Thursday, police sources told Caribbean Net News... read more...

Wanted Haitian ex-soldier killed by police

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): A wanted Haitian ex-soldier was killed by police near the capital's airport on Sunday one day after a rebel leader died in a shootout with police, the authorities said... read more...

Haiti police kill rebel leader

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian police on Saturday killed Ravix Remissainthe, the leader of former soldiers who have been demanding the army be reformed, in a shootout in the capital, a top officer said... read more...

Castro says he and anticommunist pope agreed fully on world's woes

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro, in a five-hour address just ahead of Pope John Paul II's funeral, said Friday he and the pontiff were on the same page when it came to identifying the world's problems... read more...

Brazil's Lula says he will work for 'democracy in Cuba'

BRASILIA, Brazil (AFP): Brazil's leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he will work "for democracy in Cuba" and "against the (US economic) blockade" of the communist-run island, the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported Saturday... read more...

BBC asks long-dead Bob Marley for interview

LONDON, England (AFP): A red-faced BBC has had to apologise for requesting an interview with Bob Marley, the Jamaican reggae legend who died 24 years ago... read more...

WEEKEND SPORTS ROUNDUP

Slow motion South Africa grind down West Indies

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): Graeme Smith completed his ninth Test hundred and helped South Africa grind their way to a slender first innings lead of 23 in the second Test against West Indies on Sunday... read more...

South African women beat Windies in final match

PRETORIA, South Africa:  For the first time in the series the West Indies women cricketers failed to pass the 100 run mark and were easily beaten by their South African counterparts in the third and final game of their three-match series at the Technikon Oval on Saturday... read more...

Jamaicans Powell and Bolt open outdoor season

SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica:  2004 world number one sprinter Asafa Powell of Jamaica is set to open his 2005 campaign at the nations Inter-collegiate Championships at G.C. Foster College in St. Catherine, Jamaica on Saturday.  The Stephen Francis coach sprinter established himself as one of the world's best sprinters in 2004... read more...

Jamaica U21 netballers complete 2-0 series win over England

KINGSTON, Jamaica:  Teenage goal shooting sensation Romelda Aiken knocked down 46 goals to lead Jamaica's U21 netballers to a 50-45 win over England, at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, Jamaica on Friday night... read more...