News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Friday, September 15, 2006:
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HAVANA, Cuba (AFP):  Leaders of Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia -- who have all charged the United States is working to topple them -- were in Havana Thursday packing some blazing anti-US talk. "The Empire is in decline," Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez quipped as he arrived in Havana. read more.. |
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana:  President Bharrat Jagdeo has selected former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to lead his planned reform of the police force in Guyana, which has had to battle hardened criminals with access to illegal guns. President Jagdeo is insisting that Kerik is the point man. read more.. |
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| SINGAPORE, (Reuters): Haiti would benefit from faster implementation of its aid programmes if it were assigned a larger UN peacekeeping force to ensure the safety of development workers, a top World Bank official said on Thursday. read more.. |
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| BASSETERRE, St Kitts: St Kitts and Nevis has joined fellow Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country, Barbados, in declaring that commercial sex workers will not be welcomed to its shores for next year's Cricket World Cup. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Acting Cuban leader Raul Castro met in Havana Thursday with leaders of the Group of 15 developing countries including Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Fidel Castro is regaining some of the weight he has lost since his operation, and can once again speak in a loud voice fit for speeches, an Argentine lawmaker wrote a day after meeting the Cuban strongman. read more.. |
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| ROAD TOWN, BVI: The case against prominent British Virgin Islands businessman Ashley Ritter, who is facing unlawful gun and ammunition charges has been adjourned. Ritter was arrested by police last week. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: President of the Trinidad and Tobago Prisons Officers Association, Michael Williams, says he has been banned by the authorities from entering the island's Remand Prison due to recent developments among the Prisons Administration and inmates. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): Minister of State for Agriculture and Lands, Errol Ennis, has urged banana farmers to increase production for local consumption, even as they continue to supply the export market. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Health officials in Tobago have denied reports that babies are dying at the Scarborough General Hospital as a result of poor administration and poor health conditions. read more.. |
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| BRADES, Montserrat: “Calabash, calabash, food time come...” Not so many years ago the calabash was commonly used as an eating and drinking utensil for daily life in many Caribbean countries. Older islanders remember well the use of the calabash. read more.. |
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MIAMI, USA (Reuters):  Tropical Storm Helene strengthened as it churned westward across the Atlantic on Thursday, while Hurricane Gordon remained a powerful Category 3 storm, but neither posed any immediate threat to land. Helene had maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England (Reuters): A gang of Caribbean drug runners was forced to scuttle its own boat after Britain's Royal Navy swooped on the vessel, preventing cocaine with an estimated street value of up to 500 million pounds heading towards Britain. read more.. |
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| KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): On its one-year anniversary, the Jamaica-Cuba Eye Care Programme has successfully facilitated corrective eye surgeries for more than 3,000 needy Jamaicans. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 Chances are that many of you know as much about the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) as you do about Foucualt’s Pendulum. After all, the NAM’s governing philosophy has proved every bit as profoundly innocuous and ultimately irrelevant. read more.. |
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| In Haiti, the institution of slavery survives in the form of restavec, a system of forced child labour. Restavec is the Haitian Creole term meaning "stay with" and has its origins in the legacy of slavery. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AFP): Sachin Tendulkar smashed a masterly 141 on his comeback from injury Thursday but it was to no avail as the West Indies beat India in a rain-affected DLF Cup one-day international here. read more.. |
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| OKLAHOMA, USA: Following the conclusion of the 4th IAAF World Athletic Finals in Stuttgart, Germany, three Caribbean athletes, including Jamaica’s female sprint ace Sherone Simpson, made significant moves in the latest IAAF World Rankings. read more.. |
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