Archives for Monday, June 6, 2005:

Opposition supporters set up solidarity camp outside jail in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A UNC trio, who have called themselves "Friends of Bas," have erected a camp just across from Arouca's Maximum Security Prison saying that they will not go home to their warm and comfortable beds as long as Basdeo Panday is in jail.  Scores of UNC supporters, many of them Parliamentarians, have joined the trio... read more...

FBI agents assisting Aruba probe into missing US teen

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US Federal Bureau of Investigation agents are helping authorities on the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba in the ongoing hunt for a missing American teenager, officials said here Sunday... read more...

Netherlands Antilles leader threatens legal action over immigration limits

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP): The prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles, Etienne Ys, threatened Sunday to take the government in The Hague to court over plans to restrict the immigration of young people from the Caribbean islands that are part of The Netherlands, the Dutch news agency ANP reported... read more...

Several dead, neighbors shaken after violent Haitian police raid

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Hours after an aggressive police operation in an impoverished neighborhood of the Haitian capital, few residents ventured into the streets and those that did kept a low profile... read more...

Trinidad opposition wants to talk crime with government

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Notwithstanding the arrest last Tuesday of their political Leader Basdeo Panday and other Members of the Parliamentary Minority, United National Congress on corruption charges, party officials have expressed a desire to hold a dialogue with the Manning Administration on the crime situation... read more...

Haiti, Bolivia likely top issues at OAS meeting

FORT LAUDERDALE, USA (AFP): The political meltdown in Bolivia and the ongoing crisis in violence-wracked Haiti are certain to be hotly debated as countries of the American hemisphere open their 35th General Assembly on Sunday... read more...

Washington pressed to consider re-sending US forces to Haiti

WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Increased violence in Haiti, where some 20 people were killed in recent days, is forcing US officials to consider deploying American troops to help maintain order ahead of general elections in the violence-torn Caribbean country.... read more...

Spain dismantles money laundering group involving four Caribbean countries

MADRID, Spain (AFP): Spanish police said Friday they have dismantled a gang which laundered as much as 130 million dollars on the southern Spanish coast. Police believe the gang carried out assassinations, extortion and a variety of other crimes across eastern Europe, investing their gains in Spain and Andorra after transferring the cash via offshore accounts based in the Netherlands Antilles, Belize, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands and Andorra... read more...

Miami Dade county to mount trade mission to St Kitts-Nevis

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: Miami-Dade County Commissioner, Jose "Pepe" Diaz is leading a business development trade mission to the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis next month.  The Mission, under the aegis of the Jay Malina International Trade Consortium of Miami-Dade County, will also visit Antigua and Barbuda... read more...

Whispering Head Resort will boost St Kitts tourism says minister

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: St. Kitts and Nevis Minister of State in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports, Ricky Skerritt is excited about the multi-million dollar deal to build a 1,700-acre tourist resort on the island’s south east peninsula.  The Whispering Head Resort could return around US$468 million to the St. Kitts and Nevis economy... read more...

Bradshaw hailed as a nationalist and Caribbean integrationist

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: The Federation of St Kitts and Nevis’ National Heroes, Sir Robert L. Bradshaw, Sir C.A. Paul Southwell and Sir Joseph N. France have been labeled “Fathers of the Nation” and the late Sir Lee L. Moore, E. St. John Payne, Fitzroy Bryant “their three notable sons.”... read more...

Petrojam to begin Jamaican refinery upgrading

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Petrojam Limited of Jamaica will begin the first phase of its refinery-upgrading project this financial year, which will see a conversion of heavy fuel oil into higher valued products such as vacuum gas oil for sale on the export market... read more...

ICT project enhances efficiency in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Government of Jamaica/ Inter American Development Bank (IDB) Information and Communications Technology Project, has made significant impact in enhancing efficiency in personal and corporate transactions through access to modern electronic means, thus reducing transaction costs and increasing the use of technology in the public and private sectors... read more...

ARD Community Caravan continues to work with the Grenadian people

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: The Agency for Reconstruction and Development’s popular Community Caravan continues to work with communities in Grenada as they prepare for the 2005 hurricane season which began on Wednesday, June 1... read more...

Trinidad and Tobago construction team in Grenada

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Fifty Trinidadian trainees in the construction field are in Grenada to help with reconstruction efforts underway following the devastation by Hurricane Ivan last year. The programme which is dubbed “Helping You Prepare for Employment” (HYPE) will be conducted initially for five weeks... read more...

HEALTH NEWS

Children's Tylenol recalled because of label confusion

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Johnson & Johnson said Friday it was recalling several varieties of its Tylenol painkiller for children due to confusing packaging information that could lead to young patients being given overly high doses of the over-the-counter medicine, which is now circulating in the Caribbean... read more...

WEEKEND SPORTS ROUNDUP

Crucial dropped catch weighs heavily against West Indies

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): A crucial dropped catch by West Indies wicketkeeper Courtney Browne let Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq and, indeed, the visitors off the hook in their second and final Test on Sunday... read more...

Maragh pilots Miracle Man to victory in Jamaica Derby

ST CATHARINE, Jamaica: Already established as the horse to beat, Miracle Man with Allen Maragh on board, won the featured Digicel-sponsored $4 million Jamaica Derby over 2,400 metres at Caymanas Park on Saturday... read more...

Trinidad and Tobago beat Panama 2-0 in World Cup qualifier

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): Trinidad and Tobago scored a goal in each half to defeat Panama 2-0 here Saturday in a 2006 World Cup qualifier in the North and Central America and Caribbean region.  Stern John in the 33rd minute and Dennis Lawrence in the 70th gave Trinidad and Tobago three valuable points in the six-nation group, which also includes Mexico, the United States, Guatemala and Costa Rica.

Three wins for the Caribbean, but Powell beaten at Pre-Classic

EUGENE, USA: The Bahamas' Leevan Sands, countrywoman Tonique Williams-Darling and Michael Blackwood of Jamaica registered wins at the Prefontaine Classic hosted at the University of Oregon track on Saturday, 4 June, but sprint ace Asafa Powell was beaten... read more...

Jamaica’s Veronica Campbell wins 200m in Turin

TURIN, Italy:  Olympic 200-metres and 4x100m relay gold medal winner Veronica Campbell of Jamaica highlighted the Caribbean performances at the Memorial Primo Nebiolo - IAAF Grand Prix II in Turin, Italy on Friday, June 3... read more...

Trinidad and Tobago’s Hislop vows to continue playing

LONDON, England:  Trinidad and Tobago's veteran goalkeeper Shaka Hislop has denied reports of his retirement from football.  "I'm not retiring," Hislop said in a statement on the Stellar Group website... read more...

Reggae Boy Claude Davis finds inspiration among kids

LONDON, England:  Jamaica's central defender Claude Davis may have to thank a recent trip to a local Primary School for his inspiration towards the end of the season... read more...

Jamaicans to benefit from exchange of Cuban coaches

KINGSTON, Jamaica: The Institute of Sports (INSPORT) in Jamaica has signed a partnership with their Cuban counterparts, for the exchange of coaches to teach various sporting disciplines in the two countries... read more...