Archives for Tuesday, October 11, 2005:

British national re-arrested on terror suspicions in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (AFP): British national, Omar Mohammed, detained last week in Trinidad and Tobago when he was boarding a plane to London, was re-arrested on Monday after appearing before the Port-of-Spain Magistrate Court here... read more...

Cuban dissidents adopt democracy road map at Spanish meeting

MADRID, Spain (AFP): Twenty-four Cuban dissident organisations from nine countries on Monday agreed on a road map charting the route to democracy in Cuba, with an almost unanimous rejection of violence... read more...

Castro to attend Latin summit in Spain

SALAMANCA, Spain (UPI): Officials in Spain say there is every indication Cuban leader Fidel Castro will attend this week's meeting of Latin American heads of state... read more...

More Cubans caught trying to reach US

MIAMI, USA (UPI): The number of Cubans trying to reach the United States through the Florida Straits is at its highest level in more than a decade... read more...

Blindness Prevention Week observed in Grenada

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Beginning Monday, October 10, to Friday, October 14, 2005, Grenada will observe Blindness Prevention Week, under the theme, “Right to Sight”... read more...

COMMENTARY

A warning to the Caribbean

CARICOM countries need to wake up to the warnings of the international community that they should establish and implement the necessary measures, particularly deeper regional integration machinery, to improve their economic viability and advance their social progress.  This position is shared by many in the Caribbean itself... read more...

Law and Politics: Where is the justification - without increased wages?

A lady from Grenville called me on the phone last week, while the Lou Smith call-in morning programme was on the air, to complain about the tremendous cost of living increases that our people were now experiencing, because of the sudden huge increases in gas and oil prices -- with still more to come... read more...

President Bush’s unsung liberal agenda

Many people throughout the Caribbean believe - as rapper Kanye West declared recently - that President Bush “hates black people.” They invariably cite the erroneous charge that Bush has offered relatively little foreign aid to our region and the continent of Africa as evidence of his hatred..... read more...

Haiti: Headed down the path towards an electoral farce

On September 30, 2005, the “International Day of Solidarity With Haitian People” was celebrated in 44 cities and 16 countries with the theme being “Stop The War Against the People of Haiti.” This worldwide manifestation marked the anniversary of the first coup that ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991... read more...

CGID responds to Guyana Chronicle editorial

The PPP government of Guyana (GOG) seems to be in epigastric distress over my condemnation of Ronald Gajraj’s appointment as Guyana’s Ambassador to India. Ronald Gajraj is Guyana’s former Minister of National Security... read more...

LETTERS

The man has paid his debt to society

I am an avid reader of Caribbean Net News. I found your article "Deportee discovered teaching in Antigua" most interesting and had to respond... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Trinidad coach Williams blames mental lapses for his team’s failure

LUCAS STREET, Barbados:  David Williams, the coach of a fruitless Trinidad and Tobago team in the 2005 KFC Cup West Indies limited-overs championship, said mental lapses were the reasons for his team’s early cup exit... read more...