News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Friday, July 21, 2006:
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PORTLAND, USA: The United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, Karin Immergut, on Wednesday announced guilty pleas by two defendants in an international investment fraud scam involving the First International Bank of Grenada.
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| CORDOBA, Argentina (AFP): Cuban leader Fidel Castro arrived Thursday at a Mercosur trade summit, a guest of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and incoming member, Venezuela. read more.. |
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| MIAMI, USA (AFP): Two US kidnapped US missionaries were released on payment of a ransom in Haiti Thursday, but a Haitian employee of the US embassy was still being held, US officials said. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: For the second straight day, activities at the Suriname’s main port came to a halt Thursday as dockworkers and truckers continued a strike for better wages and working conditions. read more.. |
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| BRADES, Montserrat: One year after the opening of Montserrat’s Gerald’s Airport, WINAIR is accused of being a key factor in the failure of the country’s economic redevelopment and continues to prohibit residents from accessing essential health care. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: Customs officials from the British Virgin Islands and its K-9 team recently assisted members of the police and customs department in Anguilla in the seizure of hundreds of pounds of marijuana that were found in a container. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Barbados is being described as one of the most prohibitively expensive places in the world, even more so than Brussels. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Planning, Roosevelt Skerrit has outlined government achievements in the agricultural sector in Dominica for the last financial year 2005/2006. read more.. |
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| ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: The Ministry of Social Development is continuing to place serious emphasis on the fight against juvenile delinquency in Grenada. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Three Guyanese men, who were residing illegally in Suriname, were sentenced to jail by a Surinamese court this week for hacking a fellow-countryman with cutlasses in January. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US authorities are raising the stakes against Internet gambling with their biggest prosecution effort to date, but backers of online wagering are not yet ready to fold. read more.. |
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| CORDOBA, Argentina (Reuters): Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez marked his nation's debut as a member of South America's biggest trade bloc on Thursday at a two-day summit that also drew his friend, Cuban leader Fidel Castro. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): Puerto Rico's credit rating on $17.5 billion debt was spared from a potential cut by Standard & Poor's after the Caribbean island commonwealth approved a $9.5 billion budget with a new sales tax. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Bloomberg): Cable & Wireless Plc, the U.K.'s second-biggest phone company, offered to buy KeyTech Ltd. for about $205 million in cash to expand in Bermuda. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 In a previous article, I criticized the ill-fated odyssey of the Antiguan government to compel the U.S. government’s compliance with a World Trade Organization directive to cease its restrictive policies towards online gaming. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| Blame the irresponsible parent who allowed her immature daughter to travel internationally without appropriate supervision. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| FALKIRK, Scotland: One of the world's greatest ever sprinters, Merlene Ottey, a former Jamaican and Caribbean sprint-queen, has confirmed that she will compete in next month's Celtic Cup at the Grangemouth Stadium in Falkirk, Scotland. read more.. |
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| ATHENS, Greece: Jamaican in-form sprinter Asafa Powell has pulled out of Friday's Vardinoyiannia track and field meeting in Rethymno, on the island of Crete, after airport officials refused to let him take his spikes on board as a hand luggage. read more.. |
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| NAIMETTE-XHOVEMONT, Belgium: Grenada's 2004 NCAA 800m champion Neisha Bernard-Thomas was the only Caribbean winner at Wednesday night's Meeting de Liège in Naimette-Xhovémont, Belgium. read more.. |
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