Archives for Wednesday, April 13, 2005:

Shootouts leave 10 dead in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): At least 10 criminals, including two former soldiers, were killed in skirmishes with police backed up by UN forces last weekend, a source close to the Haitian police told AFP... read more...

Castro slams US for harboring terror suspect

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro has slammed the United States for welcoming a terror suspect Havana and Caracas want to prosecute, pledging to make his case before the UN human rights commission in Geneva, where Washington is condemning Havana's record... read more...

US blasts Guyana over tainted minister

WASHINGTON, USA (UPI):  The US State Department said Tuesday it was reassessing aid to Guyana after a minister with links to death squads was reinstated... read more...

Inauguration of the CCJ set for April 16

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Heads of Governments, Judges, members of the Diplomatic Corps and other legal luminaries from across the Caribbean and beyond are gathering in Trinidad this weekend for the inauguration of The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) which takes place on Saturday in a special ceremony at Queen's Hall in St. Anne’s... read more...

April 19 is St. Lucia's Budget Day

CASTRIES, St Lucia:  Tuesday, April 19 is Budget day in St Lucia. This is when St. Lucians will find out what are Government’s revenue and expenditure projections for the next financial year, and how the economy fared in the past year.  Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Dr Kenny Anthony will deliver the Annual Estimates... read more...

LETTERS

Who is fooling whom?

Over recent weeks I have been taking a look at those persons in Grenada who claim to have been or who we know have been part of the Revolutionary process... read more...

The Nevis Horse Race

It is obvious why Mr. Everson W. Hull taught at Howard University in Washington but never became a tenured Professor. He seems to be wearing blinders like a horse at the Belmont Race Track in New York. Blinders prevent distraction... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Ntini fires South Africa to comfortable victory over West Indies

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): An inspired Test-best bowling performance show by Makhaya Ntini fired South Africa to an eight-wicket victory in the second cricket Test against the West Indies here on Tuesday... read more...

Reggae Boyz confirm friendly international against Guatemala

KINGSTON, Jamaica:  Caribbean number one football nation Jamaica, have announced that the Reggae Boyz will play World Cup qualifying contenders Guatemala in a friendly international in Atlanta, Georgia, on Wednesday, April 20... read more...

Jamaicans Powell and Simpson start outdoor season with wins

SPANISH TOWN, Jamaica:  As expected Olympians Sherone Simpson and Asafa Powell came out victors in the men's and women's sprints on the final day of their nation's 2005 Inter-Collegiate Championships at G.C. Foster College, St. Catherine on Saturday.  The Olympic gold medallist Simpson, easily won the women's sprint double... read more...