Archives for Tuesday, December 13, 2005:

Haitian Supreme Court judges dismissed

PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti: The Haitian provisional government decided Friday to retire five judges of the Haitian Supreme Court ("Cour de Cassation").  In an official press release Monday, the cabinet of provisional president Boniface Alexandre justified this decision by the necessity of renewing the executive and to allow better working of the institution... read more...

Canadian reported missing from cruise ship off Bahamas

MIAMI, USA (AFP): A 59-year-old Canadian woman was reported missing aboard a cruise ship and may have fallen overboard near off Nassau, in the Bahamas, the US Coast Guard said after a fruitless search over the weekend... read more...

Trinidad homicide investigators to receive specialised training

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Members of the Homicide Bureau of the Trinidad and Tobago police service are to receive specialised training in homicide investigations... read more...

Haiti extradites two suspected kidnappers to US

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): Haitian authorities have extradited two suspected kidnappers to the United States for allegedly abducting more than 50 US nationals, police said on Monday... read more...

Conference agrees on future steps to tackle climate change

MONTREAL, Canada: After two weeks of intense negotiations which culminated in an all night, marathon negotiating session, the approximately 10,000 delegates and other representatives attending the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change... read more...

Jamaica’s Operation Kingfish achieving major objective

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Just one year old, and already Operation Kingfish is creating waves in the fight against organized crime, as it successfully puts a big dent in the criminal networks in Jamaica... read more...

CGID hails decision by Court of Appeal to overturn order to try cases chronologically in Guyana

BROOKLYN, New York: The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has welcomed a decision by Guyana’s Court of Appeal to overturn a Judge’s order directing that all Supreme Court indictments be tried in chronological order... read more...

Jamaica positioning to be leading ICT destination in region

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology, Phillip Paulwell has said that Jamaica was positioning itself as the leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) destination in the region, including the Latin America grouping... read more...

St Kitts resolves low voltage problem

BASSETERRE, St Kitts: The commitment of the Government of St.. Kitts and Nevis to improve the reliability of electricity to consumers moves to a higher level this week with the phased completion of the Windward Feeder of the Electricity Supply Improvement Project (ESIP).  The phased connection will lead to a resolution to the low voltage problem... read more...

JSE urges American investment in Caribbean Single Market

KINGSTON, Jamaica: Marlene J. Street-Forrest, General Manager of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE), has encouraged American investors to consider Jamaica and the emerging Caribbean Single Market (CSM) as the next credible option in their expanding global investment portfolio... read more...

COMMENTARY

Climate change a major problem: Caribbean should act now

One of the most important conferences for the future of mankind was held in Montreal, Canada last week -- the United Nations Conference on Climate Change.  And for a change, it recorded some success despite the position of the United States.  The countries, represented at the Conference, agreed to extend a climate pact... read more...

Law and Politics: The separation of power up for grabs!

In this tiny, miniscule, little dot of an Island, in the ocean of the massive universe of Planet Earth, there is hardly anything that makes news worldwide which does not take place in our midst, and in many cases we break the news first and well before anyone else can think about it.  And whether the breaking news is by design and pre-meditated... read more...

To execute, or not to execute: that is the question!

On Monday, in dramatic and Roman god-like fashion, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave a fateful and fatal thumbs down on the life of internationally acclaimed death-row inmate Stanley “Tookie” Williams. And early Tuesday morning, state prison officials performed his execution with unusual efficiency and punctuality... read more...