News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Friday, March 3, 2006:
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Bahamian authorities played down a spate of bird deaths, as experts Thursday headed back from a southern island after collecting samples to determine if the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus had reached the Americas. read more.. |
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP):  Haitian president-elect Rene Preval arrived Thursday in the neighboring Dominican Republic to discuss the plight of Haitian migrants here in his first foreign trip since his election. Preval noted the friendly bond shared by the neighboring countries. read more.. |
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| CHARLOTTE AMALIE, USVI (UPI): US and Virgin Islands officials said 25 people, including a US Virgin Islands marshal, have been indicted or arrested in a drug-trafficking investigation. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: An additional group of twenty United States Peace Corps Health Educators will arrive in Guyana on Friday. On Tuesday, the Peace Corps celebrated 45 years as an institution and is “looking forward for a continued partnership with the people of Guyana.” read more.. |
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ST THOMAS, USVI:  On Thursday, February 23, Caribbean Net News interviewed key staff members of the US Virgin Islands Police Department Special Operations Unit. Explosive Canine Detective Dog, "Gracie" joined the meeting at the Justice Complex in Charlotte Amalie. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Some residents in Trinidad are calling on the authorities to put strict controls on the construction of cellular phone towers. read more.. |
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| PROVIDENICALES, Turks & Caicos Islands: The Turks and Caicos Hotel and Tourism Association has announced that hotel occupancy reached a record level in 2005, with a year-long average of 60% of available room-nights occupied. read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA:  In formally signing on to the Inter-American Convention on Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters, the government of Guyana last week renewed its commitment “to confront illegal activities in unity with other states in the hemisphere and reinforces respect for the rule of law.” read more.. |
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WASHINGTON, USA (UPI):  Haiti's beloved and detested former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide intends to return home, a prospect U.S. officials and analysts say could subvert efforts to hoist the western hemisphere's poorest country from the brink of total breakdown. read more.. |
OP-ED
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 My mother always warned me about becoming an educated fool. Thanks to Portia Simpson-Miller’s recent victory as the first female prime minister of Jamaica, I have come to realize the potency of the oxymoronic pair of words. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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BRISBANE, Australia:  Australian and Oceania 100m record holder Patrick Johnson is keen to race Jamaica's World Outdoor 100m silver medallist Michael Frater at Friday night's Telstra A-Series meeting in Brisbane. Johnson was delighted to see Frater and his Jamaican training partner Asafa Powell. read more.. |
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados:  Barbados' top male sprinter and lone Olympic medallist in an individual event, Obadele Thompson, said his decision to skip this month's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, was to give his aching body enough time to recover from the injuries he's been suffering from. read more.. |
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