News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Friday, August 18, 2006:
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuba's Communist Party reaffirms daily that Fidel Castro's handover of power to his brother Raul is a plan to stave off any offensive by US President George W. Bush toward a political transition. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (AFP): A Jamaican "Yardie" gangster was jailed for life in Britain Thursday after being convicted of shooting dead three members of the same family when he was double-crossed in an international drugs deal. read more.. |
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): Armed gangs in Haiti's largest slum pledged on Thursday to hand over their weapons to the government next week, heeding President Rene Preval's call for a peaceful disarmament. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has made a plea for the PAN Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS to collaborate in ensuring that all People Living With HIV and AIDS (PLWA) have access to Anti-retroviral drugs by the year 2010. read more.. |
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| LASCAHOBAS, Haiti (AFP): Outside the UN World Food Program warehouse, hungry Haitians form a line and wait for the rations coming to them as victims of tuberculosis or AIDS. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Long held in check by President Fidel Castro, Cuban entrepreneurs ranging from plumbers to pizza makers hope to enjoy some slack while his brother Raul is in charge. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 Although a very lucrative scam, it’s relatively harmless for David Copperfield to entertain gullible people with illusions during which he makes elephants disappear or saws pretty women in half. But it amounts to an unconscionable fraud... read more.. |
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| For many of the anti-Castro exiles dancing along Miami's Calle Ocho on Monday, July 31, the announcement of a temporary transfer of power marked the happiest of moments as well as the end of a troubled epoch in their lives. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| The Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has noted the publication of a letter captioned "Why the Silence before Now?" in The Guardian and the Newsday newspapers on August 3, 2006. read more.. |
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| Your article published 17th August, 2006, provides useful information pertinent to the debate which is occurring in the CARICOM countries as to the relevance of the Privy Council in the post-independence era. read more.. |
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| I certainly hope that Mr Baldal keeps his promise, and will cease and desist his attacks on Israel, Jews and Judaism. I am very concerned about what appears to be an ignorant, anti-Judaism, smear campaign... read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP): Newly-crowned European sprint king Francis Obikwelu will test his mettle against 100m world record holder Asafa Powell at the fourth Golden League meeting of the season in Zurich on Friday. read more.. |
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| BEIJING, China: Jamaica's Kaliese Spencer and Trinidad and Tobago's Renny Quow struck gold for the Caribbean on a busy third day of competition at the 11th World Junior Championships on Thursday 17 August in Beijing, China. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Former Jamaican coach Carl Brown has accepted a proposal from the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) to fill the position as interim head of coach of the national senior team for the next three months. read more.. |
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| ZURICH, Switzerland (AFP): Asafa Powell, the Jamaican 100m world record co-holder with doping-tainted Justin Gatlin, heads up the fourth Golden League meeting of the season in Zurich on Friday but admits he is longing for a beach holiday after a tiring season. read more.. |
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