News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Monday, August 28, 2006:
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MIAMI, USA (Reuters):  Hurricane Ernesto weakened to a tropical storm as it hammered flood-prone Haiti on Sunday and Florida and Cuba started evacuations as the storm headed for the Gulf of Mexico a year after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans. read more.. |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AFP):  Guyana President Bharrat Jagdeo is favoured to be returned to the office in Monday's general elections despite an upsurge in violent crime that has marred his seven-year leadership. Jagdeo will, however, be pressed to score a 51 percent majority in the National Assembly. read more.. |
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| PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Concerned over possible election violence in Guyana the Suriname government has sent army troops to Nickerie at the border with Guyana. Over the weekend 200 troops were dispatched in the so-called security peration ‘Surwest’. read more.. |
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LONDON, England (Reuters):  Europe's largest street party got under way on Sunday as festivities began in the narrow streets of London's Notting Hill with organisers saying 500,000 visitors had come to enjoy the first day of the annual carnival to the sound of whistles, steel drums, and Caribbean music. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Anguilla, Antigua-Barbuda, Barbados, Bequia, British Virgin Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St Lucia, St Maarten, St Martin, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago are all represented at the fourth annual re-DISCOVER the Caribbean Show in Barbados. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  Three nationals of the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis were among four Caribbean persons honoured Sunday in St. Thomas for their contribution to Virgin Islands-Caribbean Friendship Week. Cultures of the US Virgin Islands and island nations throughout the region are being fused together. read more.. |
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MIAMI, USA (UPI):  Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami and a familiar television figure to many Caribbean residents, has decided to step down and take some time off after two of the busiest seasons ever. Mayfield plans to leave at the end of the current season January 3. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Labour unions in Trinidad and Tobago are threatening to take serious action if steps are not taken soon to increase salaries of the working class. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo has sent a strong signal that the security forces will not be 'soft' with anyone who violates the peace during General Elections. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): For the first time in four decades, Cubans on Sunday faced the possibility of confronting a hurricane without longtime leader Fidel Castro personally leading the nation through the storm. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The 13-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observer team, representing 11 countries is in Guyana to observe Monday's elections process and has promised to reach out to as many communities as possible. read more.. |
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BASSETERRE, St Kitts:  Cruise line, easyCruise, which is getting rave reviews from budget-minded 20 and 30 somethings and is charting a new course through the canals of Holland and Belgium, is adding St Kitts and Nevis to its new schedule of Caribbean sailings during the upcoming cruise ship season. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 Radio broadcasting in Barbados has become a daily challenge of separating the chaff from the wheat. Everybody can broadcast. All you have to do is take up your phone and dial a radio station and, as the late Leslie Seon used to say... read more.. |
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 West Indian-Americans are the largest homeowners in Hartford, own many businesses and have economic clout. But when it comes to politics, they sit on the backburner. So says Hartford’s Councilwoman Veronica Airey-Wilson. read more.. |
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| On January 31, 2004 the Blue Ribbon Commission on National Health Insurance (the “BRC”) delivered its proposed plan to the Prime Minister. The initial implementation of this plan may begin shortly. read more.. |
LETTERS
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| As a young Guyanese, I feel the time has come for a proper and balanced presentation of the history of my beloved country to be told (I put my creditability on the line - not meant to embarass anyone but to set the record straight). read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| LONDON, England (AFP): West Indies cricket legend Sir Clyde Walcott died in a Barbados hospital on Saturday at the age of 80. Walcott was one of the three Ws along with Sir Frank Worrell and Everton Weekes who shot to fame in the 1950s. read more.. |
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| FLORIDA, USA: According to reports from Kingston, Jamaica, former World Junior champion, Darrel Brown, is gearing up to join the MVP Track and Field Club, which also includes 100-metre world record holder Asafa Powell. read more.. |
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| BRUSSELS, Belgium: An angry Jamaican sprinter, Asafa Powell, blamed officials at the Memorial Van Damme Golden League meeting on Friday for a poor start, which he said may have denied him the shot at breaking his 100-metres World record. read more.. |
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