Archives for Tuesday, January 17, 2006:

Trinidad's PM gets clean bill of health from Cuban doctors

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Doctors in Cuba have given Trinidad and Tobago's Prime Minister Patrick Manning a clean bill of health following his visit to the island last week for a medical check up... read more...

St Lucia forecasts record-breaking tourism season

CASTRIES, St Lucia: Tourism officials in St Lucia say they expect a record-breaking year for the country’s important tourism industry.  Minister of Tourism, Phillip J. Pierre estimates the country’s earnings from tourism to reach “close to one billion dollars” in 2006... read more...

Suriname won’t allow intra-regional air transport by US carriers within CARICOM

PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Suriname won’t allow flight operations by airline companies from the United States within CARICOM that could hurt regional carriers, Minister of Transport, Communication and Tourism, Alice Amafo, said here Monday... read more...

Taiwan ambassador's tenure in St Vincent ends

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Taiwan’s first resident ambassador to this country leaves the state on Monday after two and a half years of service here, highly credited for deepening relations between the two countries even as support for Taiwan within the region dwindled.  Ambassador Elizabeth Chu described her tour of duty as “people oriented”... read more...

Antigua-Barbuda PM receives first machine-readable passport

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua: Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer on Monday accepted the first Antigua and Barbuda new machine-readable passport during a brief ceremony at the Passport Office in St. John’s.  Chief Passport Officer Ms. Paulette Otto presented the first Diplomatic Passport to the Prime Minister following a tour of the facility... read more...

CGID criticises deportation of Barbadian worker from Guyana

BROOKLYN, USA: The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has expressed deep disappointment over the recent deportation of Barbadian Construction worker, Mr. Roger Braithwaite, from Guyana on his arrival at the Timehri International Airport... read more...

Trinidad prepares for two trade-related events

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries, including Trinidad and Tobago, will from February 9 to 10 participate in the upcoming 17th Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government... read more...

FEATURE

Jamaica: The struggle for Robin’s Bay

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Panos): Robin's Bay, a curvaceous piece of land that dips its skirts into the sea on the northern shores of St. Mary, is like a woman being hotly pursued by more suitors than she can handle. On the one hand are the locals, mostly nature-loving Rastafarians and their families, who have farmed the land for decades... read more...

COMMENTARY

Free trade over a wall? The nonsense of NAFTA

The Mexican President, Vincente Fox, has described it as a “wall of shame”, Foreign Ministers of ten South and Central American countries, including Belize, denounced it on January 9th, and US businessmen have criticised it. Yet the majority in the US House of Representatives are determined to build a wall to separate Mexico from the US... read more...

Law and Politics: Grenada where are you heading?

Listeners outside Grenada to our various radio stations, during the past two weeks or so, must have been left wondering whether they were witnessing a re-birth of the PRG days -- when media propaganda was the main tool of communication and the order of the day.  The debate had become so intense and personal... read more...

Ambassador Jolie: The (not so) angelic heir to Mother Teresa!

Last Friday, Angelina Jolie took a break from filming her latest movie The Good Shepard (on location in the Dominican Republic) to visit Haiti in her capacity as a United Nations roving ambassador of goodwill.  In Haiti, where she was received like a visiting head of state, Jolie and her entourage visited a school funded by Wyclef Jean... read more...

The Caribbean ‘necklace of islands’: Dawn of a new era

Without a doubt, historians will chronicle the continued evolution of Caribbean society through the eyes of those living in memorable moments of time. Since the rise and fall of the West Indian Federation nothing comes closer towards realizing the dream of a resurrected effort to create a single unified entity than what occurred on January 1... read more...