Archives for Friday, June 10, 2005:

Trinidad religious leaders persuade Panday to accept bail

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Basdeo Panday, former prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago and the current political leader of the minority United National Congress (UNC), is now a free man having posted bail Wednesday following his 8-day imprisonment at the Arouca Maximum Security Prison... read more...

Three more arrested in Aruba teen case

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (UPI): Authorities in Aruba Thursday arrested three more men in the disappearance of an Alabama teenager.  CBS reports the three were described as witnesses in the case... read more...

Family still hopes for news of daughter missing from Caribbean cruise

RICHMOND, USA (UPI): A Virginia family hopes the search for a teenage girl who vanished in Aruba revives interest in their daughter's disappearance from a Caribbean cruise ship... read more...

Four Cuban migrants who arrived 'by taxi' can stay in US

MIAMI, USA (AFP): Four Cuban immigrants intercepted south of Florida as they sought to enter the United States in a taxi converted into a boat may stay in the United States because they have valid visas, the US Attorneys Office in Miami said Thursday... read more...

First tropical storm of 2005 threatens Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Tropical Storm Arlene, the first storm of the 2005 hurricane season, threatened Cuba Thursday, as local media warned of dousing rains.  The Miami-based US National Hurricane Center said the storm was churning north at around eight miles per hour at 8:00 am, packing winds of up to 40 miles per hour... read more...

US voices support for UN mission in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The United States, France and Canada underscored their support Thursday for the UN Stabilisation Force in Haiti and the interim government... read more...

Escaped prisoner killed in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica recorded its second murder for 2005 when Phillip Registe, an escaped prisoner, died of cutlass wounds on Thursday in Grand Bay, about ten miles south of the capital Roseau... read more...

Grenada's health minister establishes important links in New York

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Grenada's Minister of Health, Senator Ann David Antoine, has visited the State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, the heart of New York City’s Caribbean community, and established important health-related links... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Mexico beat tenacious Trinidad and Tobago 2-0

MONTERREY, Mexico (AFP): Mexico emerged with a hard-fought 2-0 victory over Trinidad and Tobago here Wednesday as the final phase of 2006 World Cup qualifying for North and Central America and the Caribbean reached the halfway stage.  Mexico are unbeaten with four victories and a draw in their first five matches... read more...

Powell clocks stunning 9.85 in wet conditions in Ostrava

OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (World-Track): In poor conditions for sprinting, Jamaica's world number one sprinter Asafa Powell ran the second fastest time in the world this year when he won the men's 100-metres at the IAAF Super Grand Prix Golden Spike meet in Ostrava on Thursday.  Powell stamped his class with a stunning 9.85-seconds run... read more...

Williams-Darling faces Guevara, while Sturrup and Jones clash again in Mexico

MONTERREY, Mexico:  After skipping the opening clash with Olympic champion Tonique Williams-Darling from the Bahamas, 2003 World champion Ana Gabriela Guevara of Mexico will have another chance to meet her rival again on home soil at the 2005 Banamex Galatlética in Monterrey, Mexico on Saturday June 11... read more...

Commentary: Cricket tainted by chucking controversy

Once again a mockery has been made of cricket before the eyes of the world. It is puzzling why a sport that has made such great strides in building its professional image continues to allow a fundamental aspect of its existence become so problematic.  Dealing with bowlers with a suspect action is unnecessarily complicated... read more...