News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Friday, August 25, 2006:
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| MIAMI, USA (Bloomberg): Tropical Storm Ernesto may be christened within a day, as a patch of thunderstorms and winds in the Caribbean turned into a tropical depression, the fifth of the season, the US National Hurricane Center said. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Close to 8,000 members of the Disciplined Services, which includes the police, soldiers and prison officers, officially kicked off the 2006 General and Regional Elections in Guyana on Monday. read more.. |
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| BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters): Colombian police responding to what looked at first like a simple traffic accident on the Caribbean island of San Andres found $40 million in cocaine hidden in an overturned Ford truck, they said on Wednesday. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, said Thursday that the OAS is closely following the development of the electoral process in Guyana. read more.. |
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| MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica: Couples Resorts has announced plans for expansion with the addition of a fifth resort to its brand. The new resort will be situated near the multi-billion dollar Harmony Cove luxury tourism project in Trelawny, Jamaica. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The number of persons in Dominica living in poverty has fallen, according to a World Bank report published in April, 2005, which says that the percentage of the Dominican population living in poverty is now 33%. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica: Jamaican Minister of Housing, Transport, Water and Works, Robert Pickersgill, has called for increased collaboration among countries in the western hemisphere to counteract the risks and challenges in aviation transportation. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 On Wednesday, at the 94th International General Assembly of the Church of God of Prophecy in Nashville, Tennessee, my brother, Dr Joseph Leon Hall, was ordained a “newly deemed Bishop”. read more.. |
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| Most of Petrocaribe’s member countries don't have appropriate infrastructure and neither do they have control over their energy resources, port operations and storage tanks. read more.. |
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