News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Tuesday, March 28, 2006:
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WASHINGTON, USA (AFP):  The US Navy is sending an aircraft carrier into the Caribbean next month for the first time since 2003 to reaffirm military ties with countries in the region, the military said Tuesday. The two month deployment of the USS George Washington and three other warships. read more.. |
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UNITED NATIONS, NEW YORK (AFP):  Haiti president-elect Rene Preval on Monday pressed for more international long-term aid to boost economic recovery and prop up democratic institutions in his impoverished country. Addressing an open debate on Haiti in the UN Security Council. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Two brothers were snatched from a Barbados family over the weekend when they were stabbed to death outside a nightclub. read more.. |
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP):  Eleven human skulls were found Monday on a rubbish dump in the Haitian capital, two days after 17 skulls were discovered in a nearby suburb, according to an AFP reporter at the scene. No official explanation has been given for the macabre discovery of the skulls. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The inauguration of Haitian president-elect Rene Preval will take place May 14, nearly two months after it was delayed due to the postponement of legislative elections, the government said Sunday. read more.. |
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| ST JOHN’S, Antigua: The Council of Ministers of the Regional Security System (RSS) gathered in Antigua and Barbuda on Monday morning for an extraordinary meeting. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: The third OECS Council of Tourism Ministers will meet in Dominica from March 29 to 31 to discuss Cricket World Cup 2007, the merits of harmonisation of tourism incentives frameworks and the development of tourism standards. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The Inland Revenue Department in the British Virgin Islands expects to collect 43.6 million dollars this year, representing about 20 percent of Government’s overall budget revenue of 233.1 million dollars for 2006. read more.. |
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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad:  There is speculation that Oma Panday, wife of Opposition leader Basdeo Panday, could take the witness stand this week to testify in his ongoing Integrity in Public Life trial being conducted at the Port of Spain Magistrates' court. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad's Prime Minister Patrick Manning says the country is likely to achieve full employment status for its people by the end of the year. read more.. |
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ST CROIX, USVI:  There are no new leads in the case of a stolen 1,500 pound antique cannon taken from Fort Frederik, in St Croix, US Virgin Islands. Officials from the Department of Planning and Natural Resources were alerted to the missing cannon by an anonymous telephone tip. read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) will discuss on Friday the many different scientific and economic aspects of Avian Influenza and the potential impacts in the Americas. read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Anglicans internationally will in June ask their brethren in New Hampshire for reassurance that they will not approve other homosexual ministers, two years after a gay priest was ordained there. read more.. |
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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada:  Key Foreign Service personnel and Information Directors from around the region have ended two days of talks at CARICOM Headquarters in Guyana, seeking to put the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) in a much clearer perspective. read more.. |
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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada:  Grenada’s Opposition Leader Tillman Thomas has ordered the setting up of a Committee of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to look into allegations of impropriety by a member of their parliamentary team. The NDC leader stated that the investigations have already begun. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: Thirteen Jamaican nationals are now in police custody in the British Virgin Islands after being arrested on Saturday for remaining in the Territory after the period granted by Immigration. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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SPORTS NEWS
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| NAPIER, New Zealand (AFP): Continuing rain forced match officials to abandon all play on the fourth day of the third and final cricket Test between New Zealand and the West Indies here Tuesday. read more.. |
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| MELBOURNE, Australia: Jamaica's newly-crowned Commonwealth 100 metres champion Asafa Powell said his impressive performances at the just-concluded 18th Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, last week, will not affect his quest to dominate the sprints on the European circuit later this season. read more.. |
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| KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Former Windward Islands cricketer Neil "Nellie" Williams died in England on Monday following a short battle with pneumonia. read more.. |
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