News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Wednesday, June 14, 2006:
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| MIAMI, USA (Reuters): A ship used by environmental group Greenpeace to confront Japanese whaling ships in the Southern Ocean has been refused permission to dock in the Caribbean island state of St Kitts and Nevis. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: An earthquake measuring 4.2 on the Richter scale shook parts of North Trinidad on Tuesday sending tremors through several areas. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): A week-long US power struggle with Cuba ended Tuesday when electricity returned to the US mission in Havana, but a US spokesman doubted storms were to blame for the lengthy blackout. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): Unable to compete on the world market with cheap Chinese super-calcined bauxite, President Bharrat Jagdeo on Monday asked China to consider sharing the market with Guyana. read more.. |
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| HELSINKI, Finland (Bloomberg): Nokia Oyj, the world's largest maker of mobile phones, has won an order to build a wireless network for Cable & Wireless Plc in the British Virgin Islands. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Muslim community in Barbados has offered to bury the remains of the eleven bodies found onboard a vessel drifting off the island in April. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The government of Dominica has approved a policy on crime prevention and control in the country. The decision was taken at a Cabinet meeting last month. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: Chief Minister of the British Virgin Islands, Dr Orlando Smith, has congratulated Montserrat’s new Chief Minister, Dr Lowell Lewis, on his recent appointment. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The British Virgin Islands Governor, David Pearey, and Chief Minister, Dr Orlando Smith, have expressed support for the territory's new Police Advisory Committee read more.. |
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| ST JOHN, USVI: The University of the Virgin Islands has announced that two more undergraduate students, Malori Callender and Shanedelle Norford, have been selected to begin the Early Medical School Selection Program this summer at Boston University. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 It is said that one of the visible methods for measuring the moral, social and spiritual barometer of a nation or a people is the way it takes care of its poor, disadvantaged and destitute citizens. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| GROS ISLET, St Lucia (AFP): India's hopes of victory may have been dashed, and West Indies' chances of salvation enhanced, when not a ball was bowled on the scheduled fourth day in the second Test on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AFP): England are determined to get their World Cup campaign back on track Thursday with a victory over Trinidad and Tobago that will see them march into the last 16. read more.. |
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| BADEN-BADEN, Germany (AFP): They might be giants, but Trinidad and Tobago defender Dennis Lawrence is playing down the chances of a 'Battle of the Beanpoles' when he comes up against England's Peter Crouch on Thursday. read more.. |
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| ROTENBURG, Germany (Reuters): The president of Trinidad & Tobago is so confident the Caribbean team can pull off another World Cup shock against England on Thursday he has extended his stay in Germany. read more.. |
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| ROTENBURG, Germany (Reuters): Dwight Yorke's "intimate" relationship with Rio Ferdinand will count for nothing when he gets even more up close and personal with his friend during Trinidad and Tobago's World Cup game with England. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Stephen Francis, the coach of Jamaican joint 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell, revealed that there was no attempt to lower the world mark in Gateshead at the weekend. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): Athens Olympic 200m champion Veronica Campbell could miss most, if not all, of the remainder of the 2006 outdoor athletics season with a torn muscle, her manager said Tuesday. read more.. |
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