News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Wednesday, April 19, 2006:
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Pertjajah Luhur, a key coalition party in Suriname, has decided to boycott all cabinet meetings and sessions of parliament over a dispute regarding the appointment of a top official at the Ministry of Education. read more.. |
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| OTTAWA, Canada (AFP): Canada's governor general will return to her country of birth next month to attend the inauguration of Haiti's new president, Rene Preval, in Port-au-Prince, her spokeswoman told AFP Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Executives of DSB bank, Suriname’s oldest and most prestigious commercial bank, have been charged with an alleged conspiracy to transfer millions of US and other foreign currencies from a casino to Dorsett Hotels & Resorts Inc. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban researchers say there are signs in the center of their island of the mega-meteor that slammed into modern Mexico's Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, in what was the beginning of the end for dinosaurs, official media reported Tuesday. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Belarussian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky will visit Cuba Thursday at the invitation of President Fidel Castro, the government said in a statement here Tuesday. read more.. |
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| CASTRIES, St Lucia: Air Jamaica and the island of St Lucia are currently hosting top reporters and editors from media houses in New York and New Jersey to see sustainable tourism in action. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Cabinet of Dominica, under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, has approved licences granting concessions to a number of private sector entities under the country's Fiscal Incentives Act. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| England, LONDON: Caribbean strikers, Jamaican Reggae Boy Ricardo Fuller and Trinidad and Tobago's Soca Warrior Kenwyne Jones, each hit the back of the net as Southampton beat Millwall 2-0 in the English Championship on Monday. read more.. |
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