News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Thursday, July 6, 2006:
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AFP): The 2007 Cricket World Cup is facing an accommodation shortage, the managing director of the tournament admitted on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US President George W. Bush on Wednesday met with members of the National Security Council to discuss prospects for bringing democracy to communist-ruled Cuba. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Bermuda-based Marvell Technology Group Ltd., a maker of chips for laptop computers, has said the U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission are investigating the company's stock option plan. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Over two hundred workers at the Trinidad and Tobago Bureau of Standards, a state agency in Macoya, east Trinidad, have embarked on a series of protests against what they say are improper management practices. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): The British government rejected pleas Wednesday to block the extradition to the United States of three former NatWest bankers on Enron-related fraud charges involving the sale of a Cayman Islands company. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Two senior Cuban officials charged on Wednesday that a report on the communist nation delivered to the Bush administration's National Security Council amounted to a blueprint for an Iraq-style regime change in the Caribbean. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): The number of Cubans political prisoners dropped to 316 from 333 in the first six months of this year, but the government stepped up extrajudicial harassment of opponents, the island's main rights group said on Wednesday. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| PARIS, France (AFP): Jamaican sprinter Asafa Powell on Wednesday said he was determined to go faster than any man has ever gone to reclaim the 100m title he grudgingly shares with American Justin Gatlin. read more.. |
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DALLAS, USA (AFP):  Trinidad and Tobago's goalkeeping hero from the World Cup Shaka Hislop signed for MLS club Dallas from English Premiership outfit West Ham on Wednesday. The 37-year-old joins the MLS West Division leaders after an outstanding World Cup. read more.. |
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LONDON, England (AFP):  Bahamian Mark Knowles and Canadian Daniel Nestor won the longest match in Wimbledon history on Wednesday when they beat Simon Aspelin and Todd Perry in a men's doubles quarter-final clash which lasted six hours and nine minutes. Knowles said they were proud to set a new record. read more.. |
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