News from the Caribbean for
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Archives for Tuesday, September 26, 2006:
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| PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters): A radio ad urging Haitians to reveal illegal weapons caches to the U.S. Embassy has angered politicians and fueled debate on whether the troubled Caribbean nation has become a tacit U.S. protectorate. read more.. |
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| HAVANA, Cuba (Reuters): Cuba has fired the heads of two of the country's most influential companies in a bid to bring the computing and telecommunications enterprises back under firm state control amid a national anti-corruption drive, industry sources said on Monday. read more.. |
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| PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago 's President George Maxwell Richards has spoken of what he terms "convulsions," which are taking place in the country as food and social issues currently affect the nation. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Guyanese authorities have expressed concern over recent statements made by Barbados Chief Immigration Officer Gilbert Greaves, who sounded a call for his Guyanese counterparts to tighten the system for issuing passports. read more.. |
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ST JOHN, USVI:  Farmers in the USVI are struggling to maintain their way of life as the cost of fresh produce in grocery stores on St Thomas and St John, most of it from the mainland, or other parts of the Caribbean, is priced beyond the means of many shoppers. read more.. |
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| GEORGETOWN, Guyana: General Secretary of the Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU), Grantley Culbard has indicated that the union will be pressing for an “enhanced severance package” for employees of BWIA. read more.. |
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| WASHINGTON, USA: A four-day seminar entitled "New Approaches to Policy and Practice for Teacher Educators in the Americas" opens Tuesday in Port-of-Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. read more.. |
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ST CROIX, USVI:  St Croix activist Shelly Moorhead, who has led delegations to Denmark to discuss reparation for the ancestors of enslaved Africans, recently announced a new collaboration between Denmark and the Virgin Islands entitled "Voices from Beyond the Grave." read more.. |
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| NEW YORK, USA: The 2007 Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, to be held in Montego Bay, Jamaica, January 25 to 27, promises to be the best ever, according to Air Jamaica senior executive George deMercado. read more.. |
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| BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: Dr. Carol Jacobs, Chairman of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, says the tourism sector is of critical importance in the fight against HIV/AIDS. read more.. |
COMMENTARY
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 These days when you pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio or hear the telephone ring, you immediately begin to wonder if there is any bad news in store for you today. Your heart may skip a beat when you see the picture of a damaged body. read more.. |
SPORTS NEWS
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| YOKOHAMA, Japan: Following a disappointing final race to in what was an exceptional season leading up to the finale, Jamaican world record holder Asafa Powell has vowed to make up for false-starting out of the 2006 Super Meet in Yokohama. read more.. |
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