Archives for Wednesday, June 15, 2005:

Aruba beach searched for missing girl

ORANJESTAD, Aruba (UPI):  Police and dog teams searched beachfront near the Marriott Hotel on Aruba Tuesday for clues in the disappearance of an Alabama teen missing more than two weeks.  Authorities cordoned off a swampy mangrove area and police began a sweep hours after the release of two security guards... read more...

FBI playing second fiddle in Aruba

ORANJESTAD, Aruba: Top sleuths from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Miami have been slithering through the grass on Aruba for the last 14 days but the role these highly-trained agents have been forced to play is that of “second fiddle" to the Aruban police, who have been struggling to crack the case of the missing 18-year-old Natalee Holloway... read more...

Antigua reacts to the Jackson verdict

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: Pop star Michael Jackson still has a lot of fans in Antigua and Barbuda and when the "Thriller" guy was slapped with charges of child molestation many of those fans went silent, as the country itself has had more than its fair share of child molestation cases, a great deal of which are "swept under the carpet."... read more...

Grenada Commission of Inquiry resumes

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Commission of Inquiry probing allegations of financial wrong-doings by Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell resumed on Monday at the Grenada Trade Centre.  The Prime Minister is being represented by Former Attorney General of Trinidad & Tobago Ramesh Maharaj... read more...

Two released in Aruba missing girl case

ORANJESTAD, Aruba: Two security guards, who worked at a hotel in Aruba close to where missing 18-year-old Natalee Holloway was staying when she disappeared on May 30 and who were quickly arrested by police here, were set free on Monday.   Authorities in Aruba continue to hold three other men... read more...

New outreach programme for Caribbean youth

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Young people in the Caribbean will soon be introduced to a new programme aimed at bringing about a positive change in their lifestyle. This new initiative is called X-Change... read more...

Call for drug courts to be established throughout the Caribbean

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Director of the Organisation of American States, Wendell Goodin is calling on countries across the region to introduce drug courts to help reduce the burden of crime and drugs... read more...

Canada negotiating with kidnappers of 65-year-old woman in Haiti

OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Canadian officials are negotiating with the kidnappers of a 65-year-old Montreal woman abducted in Haiti, a government official said Tuesday... read more...

Canadian market important to Jamaica’s tourism, says minister

TORONTO, Canada:  Jamaican Minister of Industry and Tourism, Aloun Ndombet Assamba has acknowledged the importance of the Canadian market to Jamaica’s tourism industry, indicating that the sector had recorded one of the highest growths in its history in 2004.  The number of stopover visitors to the island in 2004 was 1.4 million... read more...

Collaboration necessary to fight crime in Jamaica, says British military attaché

KINGSTON, Jamaica: British Military Attaché, Colonel Charles Le Brune, emphasized that police and military collaboration was pivotal to fighting Jamaica’s crime problem... read more...

LETTERS

Missing teen in Aruba

Caribbean Net News has received a large number of emails concerning the investigation in Aruba into the disappearance of Alabama teenager, Natalee Holloway. This is a small selection of the correspondence we have received... read more...

Moving out of the US shadow

Partnerships between the Caribbean and the other Latin American nations could offer the two regions an opportunity to pursue self-sufficient development strategies... read more...

The advantage of Caribbean Net News

More and more we are seeing the importance of Caribbean Net News.  It is surprising to read about media problem in St. Vincent ... read more...

All that glistens is not gold

I note your recent news paragraph that said: Similarly, Dr. Morris sees tourism, the region’s leading industry, as an area for region wide cooperation... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Jamaica's Asafa Powell breaks Montgomery’s world record with 9.77 run

ATHENS, Greece:  Just as he promised on Monday that he would produce something special, Jamaican Asafa Powell lived up to all speculations by not only becoming the fastest man in the world this year but the fastest in the history of 100-metre sprinting.  Powell clocked 9.77 to erase the previous mark set by American Tim Montgomery of 9.78... read more...

Powell the fastest son of a preacher man

ATHENS, Greece (AFP): Asafa Powell's favourite tune is the gospel song Lord Walk Beside Me but on Tuesday it should have been Christopher Cross's Run Like The Wind because that is what the Jamaican did in timing 9.77 seconds in the 100 metres to become the world's fastest man... read more...

Veterans set for Bermuda Twenty20

LONDON, England (AFP): A Twenty20 cricket competition set to feature former leading international players was launched here Tuesday... read more...