News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Monday, August 7, 2006:
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Word filtered through the ranks of the Cuban Communist Party and government that President Fidel Castro was recovering from surgery, but his location and exact condition remained a mystery on Sunday nearly a week after his unprecedented handover of power. read more.. |
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| SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AFP): UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said he will ask the United Nations Security Council to send dozens of crime experts to Haiti to help quell violence in the country. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (UPI): A New York judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the parents of an Alabama teenager who vanished in Aruba last year. read more.. |
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| BELMOPAN, Belize (Reuters): Belize said last week it was committed to a 'market-friendly' restructuring of its nearly $1 billion foreign debt but that negotiations with creditors would dictate how much lenders stood to lose. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): In the foothills of Cuba's rugged Sierra Maestra mountains, where President Fidel Castro launched his armed revolution half a century ago, life appears frozen in time. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Elian Gonzalez, the Cuban boy who became the celebrated object of a 2000 US-Cuba tug-of-war wished Cuban leader Fidel Castro a speedy recovery from surgery. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday insisted the United States would not stoke a political crisis in Cuba as President Fidel Castro ails, but issued a new call for democratic change. read more.. |
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| HAMILTON, Bermuda (UPI): A fisherman was lucky to escape from a 14-foot marlin that impaled him and knocked him overboard during a tournament in Bermuda. read more.. |
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| LONDON , England (Reuters): A British judge has awarded the ex-wife of a Bermuda-based insurance magnate 48 million pounds in what is believed to be the biggest contested divorce award in British legal history. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (UPI): Satellite TV dishes are giving some Cubans a look at how the rest of the world is covering President Fidel Castro's health problems. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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| Some days after the visit to Guadeloupe of Howard Lovell, Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister of Tourism, it was the turn of a delegation from Trinidad's Ministry of Trade and Industry, to gather press and socio professionals. read more.. |
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| The Turks and Caicos Islands have experienced tremendous growth and development in the political, economic and cultural sectors under the competent leadership of Premier Michael Missick. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| As Israel continues its murderous assault on the people of Lebanon, to date not a single Caribbean Government or Opposition party, with the notable exception of the Peoples Empowerment Party here in Barbados, has uttered a word of protest. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| MUMBAI, India (Reuters): West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) bypassed the country's Players Association and named a 14-man squad for next month's triangular series against India and Australia. read more.. |
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| MUNICH, Germany (AFP): Bayern Munich coach Felix Magath revealed Sunday that Puerto Rico had approached him about becoming the country's team director in the build-up to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: Former Reggae Boyz hero, Deon Burton, became the third Jamaican sidelined with an injury, following the news out of Sheffield Wednesday's training camp that the striker will be out of action for three weeks. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: Sheffield United's Claude Davis, a no-nonsense centre-back in the Jamaican Reggae Boyz line up, is now resting at his British home, following successful surgery on his right knee on Friday. read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): The US Olympic Committee has permanently banned Jamaican-born track coach Trevor Graham from its training centers and training sites, the first time the organization has levied such a penalty. read more.. |
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