Archives for Thursday, September 15, 2005:

Barbados PM hints at Cabinet shake-up and warns that he won't tolerate corruption

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Prime Minister Owen Arthur has hinted at a Cabinet shake-up.  And he has also sent a warning to party supporters that he will not tolerate their delinquency and impropriety in the various government departments... read more...

Dame Eugenia laid to rest in Dominica

ROSEAU, Dominica: Dame Eugenia Charles, the Caribbean's first female Prime Minister was buried on Wednesday in Pointe Michel, a southern town in Dominica, where she was born 86 years ago... read more...

Haiti bars priest from presidential race

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (UPI): Haitian leaders have barred a jailed Roman Catholic priest from running for president under the former president's party, Haitian radio reported Wednesday... read more...

Spirit Airlines enters Cayman Islands market

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has approved the application of the low cost carrier, Spirit Airlines for flight services to Grand Cayman... read more...

Nevis Island Administration praised for debt management initiative

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis: A finance management advisor of the Barbados based Caribbean Regional Technical Assistance Centre (CARTAC) has praised the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) for an initiative to reform its capital expenditure... read more...

Suriname police detain illegal Guyanese

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Police in Suriname on Saturday arrested 13 Guyanese nationals who entered the country illegally. Police also confiscated three boxes of alcoholic beverages, and an undisclosed quantity of cigarettes, watches and cosmetic items... read more...

Drug traffickers nabbed in Suriname

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: The Narcotics Squad, customs officers and military police in Suriname have arrested and detained eight suspects, including four students, on drug charges this week... read more...

Trinidad prison officer attacked by inmate

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: A prison officer at the Trinidad and Tobago maximum security prison had to be rushed to hospital after he was attacked and brutally beaten by an inmate on Wednesday morning... read more...

Trinidad’s trade policy under review by World Trade Organisation

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago’s Trade and Industry Minister, Kenneth Valley, is in Geneva for a World Trade Organisation (WTO) review of the country’s trade policy.... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Ganga to lead Trinidad & Tobago in President's Trophy

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad Daren Ganga, the man who captained the West Indies A-team in their recent tour of Sri Lanka, has been selected again to lead Trinidad & Tobago’s cricket squad for the upcoming President's Trophy One-Day tournament next month... read more...