News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Monday, April 3, 2006:
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): The banning in the Bahamas of the "Brokeback Mountain" movie has stirred controversy in the Atlantic island chain, in what a gay group called "an attempt to censor an entire community." read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: After three days of questioning, police in Trinidad have formally charged two teenagers for rape and murder of 6-year-old US national, Sean Luke. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Last week an elderly woman became the fifth murder victim in Suriname this year and the third in consecutive weeks. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A Cuban dissident journalist on Friday marked two months on a hunger strike to demand Internet access, a member of his government-outlawed agency said. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The United Nations mission in Haiti on Friday expressed concern about overcrowding in the country's prisons, where the majority of inmates have not been convicted and are being held in preventive detention. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Rates to ship oil in the Caribbean basin fell for the 12th straight session as high U.S. crude inventories crimped demand for shipping. read more.. |
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| ST JOHN'S, Antigua: Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean, launched services on Friday in Antigua and Barbuda with the announcement of a US$6 million investment into the local operation. read more.. |
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| PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands: Digicel announced Friday that it has been granted a license to establish a GSM cellular network in the newly liberalised market of the Turks & Caicos Islands, further expanding its pan-Caribbean network across the region. read more.. |
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| CURITIBA, Brazil: In an inspiring move for the Caribbean region, the nation of Grenada has pledged to put 25 percent of near-shore marine and 25 percent of terrestrial natural resources under effective conservation by 2020. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 After US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had a meeting with CARICOM Foreign Ministers in March, an editorial in the Barbados Nation newspaper proclaimed: “Nothing new from Rice Meeting”. read more.. |
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| In the middle of May, after a number of electoral processes take place, Rene Preval, the only democratically-elected Haitian president to serve out his full five year presidential term and peacefully hand over power to the succeeding administration, will once again assume the presidential mantle. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| It’s a shame when such an esteemed newspaper looses its objectivity! In a front page Barbados Advocate headline on 29th March ‘Tourism industry bouncing back’ and again in an article dated 1st April ‘Tourism bouncing back’ are classic examples. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| LONDON, England: Jamaican international Ricardo Fuller scored two second-half goals to help his Southampton team ease away from the Coca-Cola Championship relegation zone after they defeated Cardiff 3-2 on Saturday. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Experienced Jamaican referee Peter Prendergast is set to become the first offical from the Caribbean to officiate in two major football senior tournaments when he travels to Germany this summer to participate in the 2006 FIFA World Cup Finals. read more.. |
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