News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Tuesday, April 4, 2006:
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: An official with the Commonwealth Secretariat says some of the Caribbean's qualified nurses and teachers who migrate to the United Kingdom are being manipulated and grossly exploited after being lured by recruiters. read more.. |
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BRADES, Montserrat:  The University of Science and Technology’s (USAT) president, Mr Orien Tulp, holds Montserrat’s current Governor, Mrs Deborah Barnes-Jones, solely responsible for the loss of ₤1.25 million in revenue. According to Tulp, USAT received a license from the Government. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (AFP): US telecom giant Verizon Communications said Monday that it reached agreements to sell its Caribbean and Latin American operations in three transactions valued at 3.7 billion dollars. read more.. |
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| MADRID, Spain (AFP): Cuban President Fidel Castro is not worried about his succession since the revolution does not depend on a cult of personality, according to extracts from a book to be published Friday. read more.. |
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| PRETORIA, South Africa (AFP): South Africa is in no hurry to send ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide back to Haiti without first securing agreement from the new president, the foreign minister said Monday. read more.. |
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| FORT LAUDERDALE, USA (AFP): Caribbean Sun Airlines and Caribbean Star Airlines announced Monday that they have adopted new simplified fare structures featuring one-way pricing to better serve the traveling public. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The atmosphere during the recent anniversary of the Haitian constitution differed considerably from the peaceful nineteenth anniversary of the constitution on March 29, 1987. read more.. |
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ST GEORGE’S, Grenada:  Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has called on the country’s Agency for Reconstruction and Development Inc. (ARD) to work closely with the Marketing and National Importing Board (MNIB) to ensure farmers have current and reliable information about markets. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 In these Spice Isles -- where everything is nice, and we never seem to have dull moments, and our people have very short memories -- we are also expected to have more patience than others, because we have had more upheavals than all the others. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| LONDON, England: West Indies batting maestro Brian Lara moved up one place to number six in the latest LG International Cricket Council (ICC) Rankings release. read more.. |
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