Archives for Tuesday, November 15, 2005:

Tropical Depression 27 forms over the eastern Caribbean

MIAMI, USA: The twenty-seventh tropical depression of the 2005 hurricane season has formed over the eastern Caribbean Sea, bringing heavy rains to portions of the Lesser Antilles.  According to the 11pm EST advisory from the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the depression could become Tropical Storm Gamma on Tuesday... read more...

Illegal workers still in Barbados

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Fourteen illegal Indian labourers who were to leave Barbados over the weekend remain in the island, as efforts are being made to resolve contractual issues surrounding their work on the Kensington Oval redevelopment plan... read more...

Three candidates barred from Haitian presidential vote

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Three candidates for Haiti's presidency were struck from the ballot, two of them for being US citizens, Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council announced Friday... read more...

Region’s leaders want unified approach to water and waste management

KINGSTON, Jamaica:  As CARICOM countries embrace the reality of a Single Market and Economy, regional governments are working to ensure a unified and structured approach to deal with the many challenges facing the Caribbean water, wastewater, and solid waste sectors... read more...

Discussions continue on communications liberalisation in Antigua-Barbuda

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua: The Second Roundtable Discussion on Information Communication Technology organized by the Telecommunications Division of the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and Telecommunications was conducted last week... read more...

Caribbean HIV/AIDS training workshop opens in Antigua

BOLANS, Antigua: Regional participants attending the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Regional Training Network (CHART) 4th training of trainers’ workshop in Antigua have been told to gravitate on the information they are receiving to improve on their health care skills... read more...

EDUCATION NEWS

New York-based Monroe College welcomes Caribbean students

NEW YORK, USA: Monroe College in New Rochelle, NY, located less than a half-hour from New York City, has a long history of granting Bachelor's and Associate degrees to students from the Caribbean.  Caribbean students have consistently emerged as campus leaders and in student organizations.. read more...

COMMENTARY

A tale of three trade talks

From Argentina through Anguilla to London and Geneva, trade talks that will affect the people of the Caribbean searched for answers to trade problems at the start of November creating greater uncertainty for Caribbean economies.  The first of the these talks was the Summit of The Americas held in Argentina... read more...

Law and Politics: The inquiry, cricket and crime

The Commission of Inquiry, which was issued by the Governor General early last year, and which was initially opened by the lone Commissioner, Dr. Richard Cheltenham of Barbados, in August last year, has been on hold (adjourned) since June 17 this year. The passage of “Ivan” in September last year brought a stand still ... read more...

Mostly non-whites Anglicans poised to split from their Church over gay agenda

Last week, Anglican bishops from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, India and Latin America -- representing 50 million church members in the newly formed Anglican Communion Network (ACN) -- met in America to challenge U.S. and Canadian bishops to declare whether they’re going to remain loyal to an Anglican Church that consecrates gay bishops... read more...

The price of free movement

The Caribbean Single Market and Economy’s (CSME) facilitation of the free movement of persons appears to have a price for the tiny island of Montserrat. According to the CSME, free movement of persons is divided into two broad categories, the free movement of skills/labour and the facilitation of hassle-free travel... read more...

SPORTS NEWS

Five-star Cuba off to fast start at world amateur boxing championships

MIANYANG, China (AFP): Joint favorites Cuba were off to a quick start at the senior world amateur boxing championships by winning five matches out of six on the first day of the preliminary rounds on Sunday... read more...

Jamaica beat Barbados in Tri-nation netball series

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaica’s senior netballers registered a comfortable 51-36 win over Barbados in the opening game of the Tri-nation series at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, Saturday evening... read more...

Samuels changing batting approach

MELBOURNE, Australia: West Indies all-rounder Marlon Samuels has decided to take a different route to the way he bats.  The gifted right-hander returns to the Caribbean side after a two-year absence from Test cricket and he said batting patiently is the most important thing now... read more...

Beenhakker confident despite Trinidad’s first leg below-par performance

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Leo Beenhakker, the head coach of Trinidad and Tobago, is optimistic about the Caribbean side’s chances, despite Saturday's draw at the Hasely Crawford Stadium with Bahrain in Port of Spain... read more...

Yorke still keeping it positive

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago's striker Dwight Yorke is still confident in his team's chances of reaching next year's FIFA World Cup Finals in Germany, despite playing to a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their qualifying play-off match at home with Bahrain... read more...