Archives for Thursday, October 20, 2005:

Wilma's rain, waves batter Caribbean

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (UPI):  Rain and huge waves generated by Hurricane Wilma battered Caribbean islands for a second day Wednesday, triggering landslides and power outages.  As the season's strongest storm wallowed over the warm sea, all of Jamaica was under a flash flood warning... read more...

Antigua Public Utilities Authority under fire

MARBLE HILL, Antigua:  The Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) has come under fire within recent days for the company's involvement in a deal to purchase two "second hand" generators costing millions from Taiwan.  Plagued with constant power outages, the company was forced to seek assistance from Venezuela... read more...

11 dead as heavy rains drench Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Eleven people have died in Haiti because of heavy rains and flooding, which have pounded the west and south of this Caribbean state for two weeks, an official said Wednesday... read more...

Survey shows increased corruption in Trinidad

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The latest survey conducted by the local Chapter of Transparency International has found that levels of corruption have increased in Trinidad and Tobago... read more...

Barbados PM addresses Antigua-Barbuda Cabinet

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua: The Antigua and Barbuda Cabinet was on Tuesday brought up to date on the status of the country's readiness for the implementation of the CARICOM Single Market by December 2005, by the Prime Minister of Barbados, Owen Arthur, who is on a visit to the island.  Prime Minister Arthur updated the Cabinet on the CSME... read more...

Caribbean leaders and US House members to meet in USVI next month

NEW YORK, USA: Two Caricom leaders, a Foreign Minister, a Governor and several members of the US House of Representatives are to meet next month in the US Virgin Islands... read more...

Caribbean Development Bank provides technical assistance to Turks & Caicos

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands: The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is presently providing technical assistance to the Government of Turks and Caicos Islands to strengthen the system of national accounts... read more...

Hearings commence on Barbados and Trinidad-Tobago arbitration

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Oral hearings in Barbados’ maritime boundary and fisheries case with Trinidad and Tobago opened on Monday, October 17, 2005 at the International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) in London... read more...

CGID to convene first ever parliamentary session in New York

NEW YORK, USA: The Caribbean-Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) is promising to rekindle the Caribbean Diaspora’s association with the Westminster model of Parliamentary debate, when it convenes its first every Parliamentary Session (discussion and debate), on Monday, October 31, 2005, at Brooklyn Borough Hall, New York... read more...

Land Use Survey Project gets underway in Grenada

ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada: Preparations are underway in Grenada for the Land Use Survey Project, which is being organised by the Agency for Reconstruction and Development Inc. (ARD), in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture... read more...

UN Security Council presses Haiti to hold elections this year

UNITED NATIONS (AFP): The UN Security Council on Tuesday stressed the need for Haiti to hold free and fair elections this year and to work with the UN mission there to organize the polls... read more...

OECS chiefs of prisons and probation services to meet

CASTRIES, St Lucia: Heads of Prisons and Probation Services in the OECS meet in St. Lucia October 20th and 21st to discuss a way forward for merging Prisons and Probation/Social Services in the sub-region... read more...

St Kitts hosts second Caribbean Nursing Students Conference

BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Student nurses from the United Kingdom, Canada and the Caribbean gather in St Kitts this weekend for the Second Biennial Caribbean Nursing Students Conference.  Founder and Co-ordinator, Kittitian Delores Gumbs said 150 student nurses from 25 countries will meet at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort... read more...

St Kitts-Nevis PM thanks Japanese leader for funding regional insurance initiative

TOKYO, Japan: St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas on Tuesday thanked his Japanese counterpart for that Asian nation’s assistance to the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in funding the catastrophic risk insurance initiative.  Prime Ministers Douglas and Koizumi discussed a number of broad issues... read more...

Caribbean not fully independent unless Haiti becomes independent, says UWI lecturer

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent:  The Caribbean region is not fully independent unless Haiti becomes independent.  This opinion was expressed by Rev. Dr. George Mulrain as he delivered the 7th annual independence lecture organised by the University of the West Indies School of Continuing Studies in Kingstown on Tuesday... read more...

Caribbean water management best practices for World Water Forum

MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica: Best practices in water management in Jamaica and the Caribbean will be shared with water sector executives from all over the world when they meet next March at the 4th World Water Forum, in Mexico City... read more...

Grenada youth addresses special UN conference on violence against children

ST. GEORGE’S Grenada: Grenada’s panelist at the United Nations Special Conference on the "Protection of Children from Violence in Schools and Corporal Punishment” wants Governments in the region to speedily implement the latest recommendations from the United Nations Committee on the Children’s Rights... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Collins will be missed ‘Down Under’

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  The West Indies will be missing a vital player in Pedro Collins when they face Australia in three Test matches later this month, according to coach Bennett King and captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul... read more...

Lara at number two in the world

LONDON, England:  West Indies batting star Brian Lara climbed up one place to the number two position in the latest LG ICC world batting rankings... read more...