Archives for Tuesday, November 8, 2005:

December poll for St Vincent and the Grenadines

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Vincentians will celebrate Nine Mornings, their unique Christmas festival, in an atmosphere devoid of electioneering.  Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves late Sunday night announced that general elections will be held on Wednesday, December 7... read more...

St Lucia Senate passes ‘phone-tapping’ law

CASTRIES, St Lucia: The St Lucia Senate has voted in favour of a new law which will allow authorities to tap private phones in criminal investigations.  The “Interception of Communications Bill” is now awaiting final approval from Governor General Dame Pearlette Louisy before it officially becomes law... read more...

Bush picks Haiti ambassador

PANAMA CITY, Panama (AFP): US President George W. Bush will nominate career diplomat Janet Sanderson to be US ambassador to Haiti, White House spokesman Scott McClellan announced in a statement Monday... read more...

Cuban trade hit 7.5 billion dollars in 2004

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's trade volume reached 7.5 billion dollars last year, with Venezuela heading Cuba's list of most important commercial partners, a Cuban official said... read more...

Cayman Islands government takes a step to let the ‘sunshine’ in

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: A new era of openness and transparency in government was heralded in the Legislative Assembly of the Cayman Islands on Friday morning, when the Leader of Government Business, Kurt Tibbetts, laid before the House the Freedom of Information Bill, 2005... read more...

Cayman Islands to tackle cruise-tourist volumes

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: The Cayman Islands Government is taking active steps to properly manage cruise ship scheduling and cruise-tourist volumes. Among goals, a key aim is to minimise impact on residents, especially during the busy Christmas shopping season... read more...

COMMENTARY

No deal better than a bad deal at WTO December meeting

Five of the ‘big boys’ in international trade have assumed the role of guiding discussions leading up to the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) due to be held in Hong Kong in December.  As usual, they are trying to work out arrangements that will suit themselves... read more...

Law and Politics: The stadium, police force and debt

Development needs in Grenada, like in the rest of the Caribbean Region, are not a set of simple, fixed, unchanging targets. They are fashioned by our ambitions as much as by our shortcomings; by what we want, as well as by what we lack.  And the passage of "Ivan" and "Emily" did not and cannot change the basic principles for development... read more...

CARICOM’s CSME vis-à-vis NAFTA, CAFTA, FTAA and the EU

Heads of State (with the conspicuous exception of Cuba’s Fidel Castro) met for the Fourth Summit of the Americas in Argentina last weekend. For the invariably marginalised CARICOM delegates, however, this summit proved as inconsequential as usual.  The only noteworthy thing about this year’s gathering was the incendiary rhetoric... read more...

Czech Republic’s heavy handed diplomacy aimed at roiling EU-Cuban relations and isolating Havana

Citing bitter memories springing from a reviled shared communist past, and with its strong, if highly selective, commitment to backing democratic political systems abroad, the Czech Republic today has become one of Cuba’s most lethal enemies worldwide... read more...

Cricket World Cup 2007 will not take place...

Cricket World Cup 2007 will not take place... the 2007 World Cup will not take place in the Caribbean... World Cup 2007 will not take place for many Caribbean citizens. Most regional citizens will not actually experience the matches on the field of play... read more...

In support of a Caribbean regional airline

Now that we have a new Chairman, Board and CEO at both BWIA and Air Jamaica and a new Chairman at LIAT the timing may be propitious for the 'New Boys' to sit down and discuss whether co-operation / integration is a more viable option for them collectively than their continued individual financially disastrous course... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Powell going for Commonwealth Games triple despite indecisive reports

KINGSTON, Jamaica:  Despite media reports of Asafa Powell's uncertainty in competing at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Australia, the Jamaican world record holder over 100m has stated that he will be there... read more...