Monday, December 11, 2006

 

S. American leaders aim for EU-like body

South American leaders agreed Saturday to create a high-level commission to study the idea of forming a continent-wide community similar to the European Union.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061209/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/bolivia_summit

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Leader to leave Haiti for cancer tests

President Rene Preval, who was diagnosed with prostate cancer five years ago, said Sunday the disease may have come back and that he would soon leave the country for treatment and more tests.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061210/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/haiti_president_cancer

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St Lucia parties last lap weekend

Red and yellow - the party colours of the ruling Saint Lucia Labor Party and the opposition United Workers Party adorn virtually every street as Saint Lucia prepares for Monday, when Saint Lucians will elect a new government.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/12/061208_luciaelex.shtml

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The plight of the cane-cutters

Haiti workers hut (photos: courtesy Gianni Dal Mas)
The plight of Haitian sugar cane workers in the DR
A UK-based international human rights organisation is calling on the government of the Dominican Republic - and also Haiti - to improve the conditions of Haitian migrant workers in the DR’s sugar industry.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/12/061208_drcane.shtml

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Lat-Am leaders end second summit

Latin American leaders have ended the second summit of the South American Community of Nations with a call for greater regional integration.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6166047.stm

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Sunday, November 19, 2006

 

Dominican-Haitian to win RFK award

BATEY LECHERIA, Dominican Republic - Sonia Pierre was just 13 when she was arrested and threatened with deportation for leading her fellow residents of Haitian descent in a march for sugar cane-cutters' rights.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/dominican_haitian_activist

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Nicaraguan president signs abortion ban

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - President Enrique Bolanos signed a bill Friday banning abortion in all cases — including when a woman's life is endangered — despite opposition from doctors, women's rights groups and diplomats.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/nicaragua_abortions

# posted by M. C. @ 3:44 PM 0 comments
 

Shots fired at anti-U.N. rally in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Gunfire rang out Saturday during a street protest by university students demanding the withdrawal of United Nations peacekeepers from Haiti, and witnesses said two demonstrators were wounded.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061119/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/haiti_un_protest_shooting

# posted by M. C. @ 3:42 PM 0 comments
 

No end to the 'N-word' debate

The 'N-word' continues to provoke debate throughout the Caribbean and elsewhere.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061117_nword2.shtml

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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

 

Bobbies for St Lucia police cleanup



The St Lucia home affairs minister Calixte George has been defending the decision to recruit 10 British police officers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061114_lucianbobbiesupdate.shtml

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UN investigates soldiers' deaths

un troops
Some Haitians demand that UN troops pull out of the country.
A spokesman for the United Nations secretary general has described the security situation in Haiti as "messy and nasty".









http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061114_haitiunupdate2.shtml

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Friday, November 10, 2006

 

BBC Caribbean News In Brief

News in Brief for Thursday November 9

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/09/060907_newsbrief.shtml

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St. Maarten autonomy row

The leader of government in Dutch St. Maarten has rebuffed criticisms that the territory is getting much less than it wanted under a new governance agreement signed with the Netherlands.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061107_stmaartencountrydebate.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 9:05 PM 0 comments
 

UN votes against Cuba embargo

The United Nations General Assembly has once again approved a resolution calling on the United States to lift its forty-four-year-long trade embargo on Cuba.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061109_cubaembargo.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 9:05 PM 0 comments
 

Antigua begins paying back wages

The government of Antigua and Barbuda has said that a pay-out of millions dollars in backpay to public workers will put its finances under further stress.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061107_antigua.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 9:04 PM 0 comments
 

Panama is elected to UN seat

Panama has been elected as a non-permanent member of the United Security Council - ending weeks of deadlock.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061107_panama.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 9:03 PM 0 comments
 

Caribbean accepts banana tariff

Caribbean banana officials are agreeing with European Union officials that a new tariff system is meeting its objectives.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/11/061109_bananatariff.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 9:01 PM 0 comments

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

 

Official: new St Martin visa rules

Citizens of Suriname, Dominica, Guyana and Jamaica will now require visas to enter both French and Dutch St Martin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061024_maartenvisa.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 10:59 PM 0 comments

Sunday, October 22, 2006

 

Abortion ban closer in Nicaragua


Pro-choice demonstrator in Managua this week
Some women's groups have hit out against the changes
A Nicaraguan parliamentary committee has approved draft legislation to ban all abortions, including in cases where the mother's life is at risk.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6072092.stm

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Panama to vote on expanded canal


A container ship in the Panama canal
The Panama Canal opened in 1914
The people of Panama are due to vote in a referendum on an ambitious plan to expand the country's famous canal and increase traffic.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6074106.stm

# posted by M. C. @ 12:06 AM 0 comments

Saturday, October 21, 2006

 

Chamorro: Nicaragua won't repeat past

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Ex-President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who led Nicaragua out of 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule, said Friday she trusts the country will not return to its troubled past when it elects a president in about two weeks.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061021/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/nicaragua_chamorro;_ylt=AlZvzEaimXOwW6FT5G_2g_5vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

# posted by M. C. @ 12:36 PM 0 comments
 

Defining developing countries

The debate over the definition of a developing country has been triggered again with the release of the United Nations 2006 World Development report.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061020_developing.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:34 PM 0 comments
 

Guatemala 'may' abandon UN race

Guatemala's foreign minister has said the country may withdraw its candidacy for a United Nations Security Council amid a row with Venezuela.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061019_unlatest.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:33 PM 0 comments
 

UK police hunt rapist in Caribbean

Detectives hunting one of Britain's worst serial sex attackers have flown to the Caribbean to appeal for information.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061020_rapist.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:32 PM 0 comments
 

5 arrests in Panama tainted medicine case

PANAMA CITY, Panama - Panamanian authorities said Wednesday that 26 people had died after drinking tainted cough medicine, and five people had been detained on suspicion of selling contaminated material to a factory that produced the medication.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/panama_deadly_medicine;_ylt=Akc7gLMXYBzkUBmFO3PBVxxvaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA0cDJlYmhvBHNlYwM-

# posted by M. C. @ 12:28 PM 0 comments
 

BBC Caribbean News In Brief

News in Brief for Thursday October 19

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/09/060907_newsbrief.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:27 PM 0 comments
 

Trinidadian's opera takes flight

It is not often that traditional Caribbean rhythms can be heard coming from London's Royal Opera House.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6055036.stm

# posted by M. C. @ 12:27 PM 0 comments
 

U.S. missionary kidnapped in Haiti

Captives seize minister leaving his church, demanding $5,000 ransom

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15311147/

# posted by M. C. @ 12:26 PM 0 comments
 

BBC Caribbean News In Brief

News in Brief for Tuesday October 17

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/09/060907_newsbrief.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:25 PM 0 comments
 

An apology for slavery

Should the present United Kingdom (UK) government apologise for Britain’s role in the slave trade which, on March 25th next year, would have been abolished for 200 years?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061016_sanders16oct.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:24 PM 0 comments
 

New mini-US passport for Caribbean

A card-format passport for American citizens has been proposed for travel through land and sea ports of entry between the United States and the Caribbean.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061017_passportcreditcard.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:23 PM 0 comments
 

Caymans defend immigration law

Officials in the Cayman Islands have been defending a policy which seeks to limit the length of time which non-nationals can spend in the British territory.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061010_caymanrollover.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:23 PM 0 comments
 

Keeping HOPE alive for Haiti

A stalled U.S. trade bill designed to bring thousands of apparel assembly jobs to impoverished Haiti could receive a vote in Congress by the end of the year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/caribbean/news/story/2006/10/061010_haitihope.shtml

# posted by M. C. @ 12:22 PM 0 comments
 

'World's oldest man' dies in Cuba

A Cuban man who claimed to be the oldest person in the world has died in hospital at what he believed was the age of 126.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6042982.stm

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