Archives for Tuesday, June 14, 2005:

Aruba tours cancelled due to fallout from Holloway case

ORANJESTAD, Aruba: Tourism officials in Aruba are reeling from the heavy negative publicity brought about by the disappearance of 18-year-old Natalee Holloway, who had come to the island with 124 other students from the USA to celebrate their graduation from Mountain Brook High School in Alabama... read more...

Dutch send experts to Aruba to help probe into missing US teen

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AFP): Two Dutch experts have travelled to the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba to help local authorities investigating the disappearance of an American teenager, the ANP news agency reported Monday... read more...

Haitians escorted back to Dominica from Antigua

ST JOHN'S, Antigua: On Monday, thirty Haitian nationals who illegally entered Antigua and Barbuda were escorted aboard a LIAT charter flight back to Dominica where they originated... read more...

Antigua-Barbuda ambassador elected to chair UN budgetary committee

UNITED NATIONS: In elections held Monday morning in the General Assembly of the United Nations, Antigua and Barbuda's Ambassador to the United Nations, Dr John W. Ashe, was unanimously elected Chairman of the Fifth Committee for the sixtieth (60th) session of the UN General Assembly... read more...

EU extends suspension of sanctions against Cuba for a year

LUXEMBOURG (AFP): EU foreign ministers decided Monday to extend a suspension of EU sanctions against Cuba until next June but criticized Havana for a lack of progress on improving human rights, the bloc's Luxembourg presidency said Monday... read more...

Posada Carriles: A life dedicated to eliminating Fidel Castro

EL PASO, USA (AFP): Luis Posada Carriles, a Cuban extremist and suspected terrorist facing charges of violating US immigration laws, has dedicated most of his life to attempting to eliminate Cuban President Fidel Castro and destabilize his government... read more...

US Secretary of State pledges to work with Caribbean Community

MIAMI, USA: United States Secretary of State, Dr Condeleezza Rice, has pledged to work with Caribbean leaders on a regular basis. She was speaking during a brief meeting with Caribbean leaders at the 35th General Assembly of the Organization of American States in Fort Lauderdale recently... read more...

65-year-old Montreal woman abducted in Haiti

MONTREAL, Canada (AFP): A 65-year-old Montreal woman was kidnapped in Haiti and threatened with execution by her abductors if her family does not pay a 300,000 US dollar ransom, Canadian television reported Monday... read more...

Nearly five inches of rain in 36 hours recorded in St Kitts

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: A tropical wave and a trough of low pressure dumped almost five inches of rain on St. Kitts over a 36-hour period last week.  According to the meteorological office at the Robert L. Bradshaw International Airport 123.90 millimeters or 4.88 inches of rain was recorded between 8 P.M. Thursday and 8 A.M. Saturday... read more...

Jamaican products have competitive edge, says minister

TORONTO, Canada: Jamaican Minister of Industry and Tourism, Aloun Ndombet Assamba, says Jamaica is a brand name and many of its products have a competitive advantage around the world... read more...

Anti-media epidemic sweeping the Caribbean, says ACM president

AUSTIN, USA: President of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), Wesley Gibbings, has spoken of a "looming epidemic of oppressive broadcast media laws and regulations currently hovering over the Caribbean region."... read more...

BET and Cable & Wireless team up for Caribbean music

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: BET and Cable & Wireless on Monday announced a partnership to share the music of the Caribbean with audiences worldwide... read more...

COMMENTARY

Europe underdeveloped Africa: Aid plan long overdue

More than four decades ago the West Indian and Guyanese scholar, Dr Walter Rodney, documented the underdevelopment of Africa by Europe. It is only right that Britain and other European countries should now be leading the effort to help rebuild the poorest African nations whose people have been dying by the millions... read more...

Law and Politics: What can we now expect?

By the time you are reading this article, a lot could have happened, or in the process of happening, depending on what transpires on the opening day, Monday, 13th June, of the one-man Commission of Inquiry, into the "Briefcase saga" involving our Prime Minister and Eric Resteiner in that house in Mt. Moritz, Switzerland, in 2000... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Sturrup and Williams-Darling beat rivals in Monterrey

MONTERREY, Mexico:  For the third time in as many face-offs this season, the three-time Olympic champion Marion Jones was beaten by Bahamian Chandra Sturrup in the women's 100-metres at the Galatletica Banamex meet in Monterrey, Mexico on Saturday June 11... read more...

Jamaicans Powell and Smith highlight Caribbean contingent in Athens

ATHENS, Greece: A large group of Olympians including Jamaican Asafa Powell and Trecia Smith returns to Athens for Tuesday's IAAF Super Grand Prix - Tsiklitireia 2005 in the Olympic arena as part of their build up to the 10th IAAF World Championships in, Helsinki, Finland from August 6 - 14... read more...

Powell sets sight on Montgomery's world-record in Athens

ATHENS, Greece:  Jamaica's national record holder Asafa Powell, the fastest man in the world this year over 100-metres, enters the IAAF Super Grand Prix - Tsiklitireia 2005 on Tuesday June 14 with the world record on his mind.  For the first time this season Powell will not have to contend with an American... read more...