News from the Caribbean for
|
Archives for Friday, April 7, 2006:
|
|
| OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Canada deported three Caribbean-born men late Wednesday with links to a Pakistan terror group and considered "a security risk" who had earlier been convicted of trying to bomb a Hindu temple, officials told AFP Thursday. read more.. |
|
|
| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The Cuban government said Thursday it had halted a human smuggling operation along the island's southwestern coast, killing one smuggler and arresting two Cuban-Americans. read more.. |
|
|
| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The British Virgin Islands recorded a drop in three of the seven major crime categories in 2004, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Annual Report 2004, published last week. read more.. |
|
|
| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): President Fidel Castro and his brother, Raul Castro, the communist Cuban regime's number-two official and armed forces chief, met separately with Malaysia's visiting foreign minister, the Cuban foreign ministry said Thursday. read more.. |
|
|
| RABAT, Morocco (AFP): About one week after withdrawing their joint military contingent from Haiti, Morocco and Spain plan to contribute police forces to the United Nations mission in the Caribbean nation, officials in both countries said Thursday. read more.. |
|
|
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP): The UN, the European Union and Canada have joined forces to raise awareness about AIDS in Haiti, the Caribbean country hardest hit by the pandemic, by funding a film titled "Does The Band Leader Have AIDS?" read more.. |
|
|
| ROAD TOWN, BVI: Governor of the British Virgin Islands, Thomas Macan, spent his last day on the job Thursday. Governor Macan reflected on his tenure in the BVI at a farewell reception hosted on Wednesday by Chief Minister Dr Orlando Smith and his wife, Lorna. read more.. |
|
|
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: By publicly laying the foundation for the roads to be built, the provisional Haitian Prime Minister launched a road reconstruction project which will connect the capital of Haiti to the city of Mirebalais (Center). read more.. |
|
|
| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Six years after the double assassination of renowned Haitian journalist Jean Dominique and his guard Jean Claude Louissaint, the investigation is still in deadlock. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
|
|
 Last November, the world watched in horror and consternation as Muslim youths torched cars, businesses and even hospitals in cities across France. Reportedly, they were provoked into this fiery rampage. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
|
|
| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Ryan Johnson, a rookie at US Major League Soccer side Real Salt Lake City, has been drafted into Jamaica's team for their friendly international against USA in North Carolina next Tuesday. read more.. |
|
|
KINGSTON, Jamaica:  The much anticipated clash between 100m world record holder Asafa Powell of Jamaica and the reigning World and Olympic champion American Justin Gatlin, at the African IAAF Grand Prix in Abuja, Nigeria will not materialise, according to the respective management staff of both sprinters. read more.. |
|
|
| CARSON, USA: Jamaican international Andy Williams was left disappointed after his Real Salt Lake side suffered a heart breaking 3-0 defeat to Chivas USA in front of 20,739 at the Home Depot Center in their opening round schedule of the U.S. Major League (MLS) on Sunday. read more.. |
|
