News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Wednesday, July 19, 2006:
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| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters): Four Dominican Republic migrants died and two were seriously ill after suffocating in a container on a ship that they hoped would smuggle them into the United States, police said on Tuesday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad's Attorney General, John Jeremie, has claimed that two court orders to stop criminal proceedings against the nation's Chief Justice, Satnarine Sharma, has virtually put the Chief Justice above the law. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): Eleven people have been charged in a US crackdown on a multibillion-dollar Internet sports betting website with operations in Antigua and elsewhere, prosecutors said. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP): India has agreed to dispatch experts in flood forecasting and disaster management to Guyana, where unprecedented severe flooding within the last two years has killed more than 40 people. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU , Dominica: Dominica’s lone electricity company DOMLEC is moving to curb electricity theft which company officials say cost it about $14 million in losses during the last financial year. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON , USA: The government of The Bahamas on Tuesday presented monetary contributions towards a variety of Organization of American States (OAS) programs. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: The Governments of Trinidad & Tobago and Venezuela are soon to conclude an agreement for the unitizing of any hydrocarbon reserves that straddle their maritime boundaries. read more.. |
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| ST CROIX, USVI: St Croix-born lawyer/historian Wayne James has uncovered several centuries-old documents that establish his family’s direct, unbroken, fully documented connection to his great-great-great-great-grandmother, Azunta, born in Africa in 1785 and sold on St Croix in 1798 at the age of 13. read more.. |
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| ST JOHN’S, Antigua: Caribbean Star Airlines on Tuesday welcomed its newest aircraft, a state-of-the-art Bombardier Q300 Dash 8 Model 315, the second of four brand-new Q300s that will be added to the carrier’s fleet in 2006. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 Preventable chronic diseases and lack of exercise are major killers of Caribbean people. And, the cost of treating these preventable chronic diseases is draining the revenues of Caribbean governments and swallowing foreign exchange. read more.. |
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| Washington’s embargo against Cuba has been a longstanding obstacle to U.S.-Cuban relations of any kind, but the emergence of economic opportunities in the Cuban market has prompted a possible thaw in the historic hostilities. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| I know it is almost useless to write my opinion on the commentary by Clarence Pilgrim about drugs. However I see such a stubborn adherence to the decades-long failed opposition to drugs that leads nowhere. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| MADRID, Spain: Caribbean athletes continue to excel on the European circuit this season as they were once again among the highlights at an IAAF World Athletics Tour meeting; this time it was at the Meeting de Atletismo Madrid 2006, on Monday. read more.. |
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