News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Monday, May 1, 2006:
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Local police are investigating the discovery of eleven bodies aboard a boat found adrift just off Barbados on Saturday morning. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Former Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Basdeo Panday, who has been sentenced for two years hard labour for breach of the country's Integrity in Public Life Act, has been granted bail in the sum of TT$300,000 pending appeal. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) is to provide further assistance to Guyana in the search for missing weapons from the country's army base camp in Georgetown, the country's capital, a government spokesman said last week. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): A "Special 301" report released by US Trade Representative (USTR) Rob Portman said that in total, 13 countries, including Belize, feature on the list of those most guilty of ripping off US intellectual property rights (IPR). read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): Britain's Prince William was flying out to a Caribbean hideaway on Friday to join his girlfriend for a romantic holiday on the island where Princess Margaret conducted an affair, a newspaper said. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): The leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia signed a "People's Trade Treaty" Saturday to counter a US-led drive to forge a Pan-American free trade area. read more.. |
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| LOS ANGELES, USA (AFP): The US government secretly supplied weapons for an attempt to overthrow Cuban President Fidel Castro, which were seized from the home of a Cuban-American arrested for illegal arms sales, the man told The Los Angeles Times in an interview published Friday. read more.. |
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| TAIPEI, Taiwan (AFP): Taiwan said Sunday that rival China had blocked Taiwanese Premier Su Tseng-chang's planned visit to Haiti by threatening to veto the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in the Caribbean country. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Authorities refloated a freighter carrying more than 300,000 barrels of oil on Friday, a day after it ran aground south of the US Caribbean commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and there were no signs of a spill, the US Coast Guard said. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: High drama within Trinidad and Tobago's opposition party, the United National Congress (UNC) has resulted in three major developments. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: President Ronald Venetiaan has demanded that Dutch authorities at Schiphol Airport treat Surinamese passengers the same way travellers from Jakarta, Pretoria, Brasilia, Washington or New York are being treated. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The island of Dominica, described by the Smithsonian Institute as a “giant plant laboratory”, has now been named by world renowned ShermansTravel.com in the top ten eco-tourist hotspots in the world. read more.. |
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| ST JOHN'S, Antigua: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (“IACHR”) and the Commonwealth Secretariat co-sponsored a two-day workshop in St John’s, Antigua last week on the ratification and implementation of international and regional human rights instruments. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: Warner Park stadium in St Kitts is on the verge of completion for Cricket World Cup 2007 and will shortly be formally handed over to the St Kitts & Nevis Local Organising Committee (LOC), according to several regional and international reports. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 Amid trade quarrels between the US and the European Union, nine Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) countries have petitioned the WTO to extend their export subsidy programmes to the year 2018. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| The Leader of the Opposition MrRobert Corbin has made some proposals recently. One of them was to have an emergency meeting. Another was to sit down with the Government of Guyana and work out a plan to provide security for the country. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| Antigua (AFP), ST JOHN'S: West Indies heeded captain Brian Lara's demand for improvement and completed a tidy 98-run victory over Zimbabwe in the second limited-overs international on Sunday at the Antigua Recreation Ground. read more.. |
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| Antigua (AFP), ST JOHN'S: West Indies made a mountain out of a molehill before prevailing by five wickets in the opening limited-overs international against Zimbabwe on Saturday at the Antigua Recreation Ground. read more.. |
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| USA, PHILADELPHIA: Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell easily won the men's Olympic Development Men's 100m dash at the 112th Penn Relays at the University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field on Saturday 29 April. read more.. |
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| Antigua, ST JOHN'S: West Indies allrounder Dwayne Bravo is confident that triple world record holder Brian Lara is the right man to lead the regional side. read more.. |
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