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6/7/2004 || BANGLADESH CHASE HUGE TARGET 0 Ramnaresh Sarwan's unbeaten double ton put the West Indies on top on day three of the second Test against Bangladesh. His 261 was the highpoint of their score of 559-4 declared, and at stumps Bangladesh had reached 66-3 in their second innings. Shivnarine Chanderpaul also weighed in with 101...Read More >>>   6/6/2004 || FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN DIES 0 Former US president Ronald Reagan who died on Saturday in Los Angeles at the age of 93, will be remembered in the Caribbean as the president who ordered US troops to invade Grenada in 1983. He ordered the invasion when Grenada's prime minister, Maurice Bishop, was overthrown by rebel elements of hi...Read More >>>   6/6/2004 || LARA AND SARWAN PUT WINDIES AHEAD 0 KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP): Bangladesh were brought back down to earth and conceded first innings lead after exhilarating batting from West Indies captain Brian Lara and vice captain Ramnaresh Sarwan on the second day of the second cricket Test on Saturday. Lara fell 4.3 overs before stumps were dr...Read More >>>   6/5/2004 || BIG LEGAL STEPS FOR OECS 0 A Caribbean lawyer says the decision by Britain to abolish the post of Lord Chancellor provides an opportunity for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States to assume full control over the appointment of its Chief Justice. At present the British Lord Chancellor advises the Queen on such appoin...Read More >>>   6/5/2004 || BANGLADESH RECOVER TO REACH 264 FOR 9 6 KINGSTON, Jamaica - Determined resistance from Bangladesh's lower order again frustrated the West Indies despite a successful return for off-spinner Omari Banks on the opening day of the second and final Cable and Wireless Test at Sabina Park on Friday. Playing his first Test since recovering fro...Read More >>>   6/5/2004 || CLEAN UP OF ST. JOHN'S RIVER 0 The first phase of the clean up of the St. John’s River channel has been completed. The Ministry of Communication, Works and Transport, in May, awarded a $65,695 contract to Ernest Marshall Construction Ltd. to clean the St. John’s River from the flat steel bridge near Steele’s Auto Supply Co. Lt...Read More >>>   6/5/2004 || REGIONAL MEDIA DELEGATION VISITS GRENADA 0 PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: - A three-member delegation from the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) is paying a two-day visit to Grenada this weekend in an attempt to assist in the resolution of current disputes between Grenadian journalists and the government. "Recent reports out of Gre...Read More >>>   6/5/2004 || GRENADA PM MEETS WITH MEDIA EXECS 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: Prime Minister Keith Mitchell held a meeting Friday afternoon with President of the Grenada Media Workers Association (MWAG) Carla Briggs and Newspaper editor Leslie Pierre in an apparent attempt to mend the current feuding with the local media. Accompanying Briggs and Pier...Read More >>>   6/4/2004 || COMMONWEALTH FLAG PROJECT A SUCCESS 0 The Department of Youth Development in the Prime Minister’s Office will award persons who have made submissions to its Commonwealth Flag Project at an awards ceremony and cultural programme to be held on Tuesday July 13th. Officials at the Department say they are pleased with the tremendous inter...Read More >>>   6/4/2004 || TEENAGE CLUB LAUNCHED IN GRENADA 0 The newest component of the Youth Department’s Model Youth Development Centre Programme was launched at the Youth Development Centre in Grand Anse on Friday (May 28)/ The “Teenage Club” saw a number of young persons having clean fun while they took on each other in a karaoke competition. Winners ...Read More >>>   6/4/2004 || DEATH THREAT AGAINST GRENADIAN JOURNALIST 0 ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Media personnel in Grenada are finding it extremely hazardous to operate there these days. On Thursday morning, journalist Leroy Noel, who was personally threatened by Grenada's Prime Minister last week, is now facing a threat on his life. Noel who contributes to Caribbean N...Read More >>>   6/4/2004 || I'LL QUIT IF WE DON'T WIN--LARA 0 WEST INDIES captain Brian Lara said he will resign as leader of the regional team if it fails to beat Bangladesh in the second and final Cable & Wireless Test match which starts today at Sabina Park. "If we don't win, I don't think I am going to lead the team to England - if we have five days of ...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || FLORIDA 'CARIBBEAN' RADIO STATION CHANGING OWNERS 0 FT LAUDERDALE, Florida: One of the major voices of the English-speaking Caribbean community in South Florida is changing hands, throwing some doubt whether its West Indian programming will continue. WAVS 1170 AM has been one of the leading Caribbean radio stations in the Miami-Ft Lauderdale area ...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || REPORT: GRENADA PM FILES SUIT AGAINST TELECOM COMP... 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: Telecommunications company Cable and Wireless has been slapped with a law suit by Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell, the Grenada Broadcasting Network has reported. According to a report on the partly state-owned Grenada Broadcasting Network it was the first of two ...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || IRELAND DEFEAT JAMAICA IN INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLY. ... 0 LONDON:- A first-half goal from Coventry City's Graham Barrett helped Ireland to a 1-0 victory over Jamaica on Wednesday in the final match of the three-nations Unity Cup international friendly tournament. In a lively first half, Barrett pounced on a mishit clearance from Jamaica defender Damien...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || TRINIDAD NOT SENDING TROOPS TO U.N. FORCE IN HAITI... 0 PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Trinidad and Tobago will not send troops to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, the prime minister said Wednesday, reversing an earlier promise to send 121 soldiers. In a decision with political ramifications for the region, Prime Minister Patrick Manning said ``there...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || ST. KITTS TO GET INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF NURSING 0 BASSETERRE, St. Kitts: St. Kitts beat out several Caribbean countries as the site for a nursing university in the Caribbean that will train hundreds of nurses from the United States, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, Eastern Europe, the Far East and Africa. Prime Minister Dr Denzil D...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || EU EXECUTIVE MOVES TO END BANANA TRADE DISPUTE 0 BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP): The European Commission proposed Wednesday to negotiate an end to a quota system governing banana imports to the EU that was ruled illegal by the WTO after US protests. But the European Union executive said the system's replacement by customs tariffs would not disadvantag...Read More >>>   6/3/2004 || FBI REQUESTS INFORMATION FROM GRENADA GOVERNMENT 0 ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has made an official request to the Government of Grenada relating to a passport issued to Van Brink. Brink was arrested last week in Kampala and handed over to US authorities by the Ugandan government. Brink had been...Read More >>>   6/2/2004 || WINDIES HELD TO A DRAW BY BANGLADESH IN FIRST TEST 0 Bangladesh 416 and 271 for 9 dec (Mashud 103*) drew with West Indies 352 (Gayle 141, Mushfiqur 4-65) and 113 for 0 (Gayle 66*) West Indies' bid for victory was stonewalled by unpenetrative bowling and a dogged maiden Test hundred from Khaled Mashud that earned Bangladesh a draw on the last day...Read More >>>   6/2/2004 || CARIBBEAN THREE IN TOP 10 IN MISS UNIVERSE PAGENT 0 QUITO, ECUADOR: THREE LADIES for the Caribbean were in the top 10 of the 80-participant Miss Universe contest which was won here Tuesday night by Miss Australia Jennifer Hawkins. Hawkins takes over the reign from Dominican beauty Amelia Vega who won the contest last year. There was a good show...Read More >>>   6/2/2004 || GRENADA POLICE DETAINS ANOTHER POLITICAL ACTIVIST;... 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: A THIRD LOW LEVEL opposition political activist was detained by police in Grenada late Monday as prosecutors continue to hunt for people they believe may have been helping to publish reports against Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell. NEWSBREAK, which shares the same parent ...Read More >>>   6/1/2004 || PM MITCHELL URGES INVESTMENT IN PRODUCTIVE SECTOR 0 Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has called on more Grenadian businesses to invest in the productive sector. Speaking, on Thursday, at the launch of the Anthurium Restaurant at the Bon Accord Estate at La Mode, the Prime Minister said that by investing in this sector, business persons are investing in...Read More >>>   6/1/2004 || SARWAN ROCKS BANGLADESH WITH THREE LATE WICKETS 0 GROS ISLET, St. Lucia (AFP): Four wickets, three to Ramnaresh Sarwan, tumbled in the space of 24 balls to leave Bangladesh in a perilous position in the opening cricket Test against West Indies on Monday. Sarwan removed Mohammad Ashraful, Faisal Hossain and Mushfiqur Rahman in a dramatic half-hou...Read More >>>   6/1/2004 || MORE FALLOUT FROM ALLEGATIONS AGAINST GRENADA PM. 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: HEAD OF NEWS at the Grenada Broadcasting Network Odette Campbell, caught in the center of a broil here over government’s threat against the media, says she is quitting the post at the partly state-owned station. Campbell was suspended last week reportedly over her directi...Read More >>>   5/31/2004 || GRENADA EMBASSY HOSTS TRADE-TOURISM-INVESTMENT EVE... 0 The Embassy of Grenada, in collaboration with the Grenada Board of Tourism, USA, recently hosted a spectacular trade-tourism-investment event “ Grenada – Spice of the Caribbean (land of beauty and opportunity). The outdoor event, which was held at the Embassy, showcased Grenada’s unique tourist a...Read More >>>   5/31/2004 || GRENADIAN STUDENTS GRADUATE FROM MIDWESTERN STATE ... 0 Nine students from Grenada, including five former teachers, earned degrees at Midwestern State University’s annual commencement exercises on May 15, at the University’s 86th anniversary commencement. The graduates include Mondel Avril, Peter Braveboy, Janelle Bullen, Kelvin Collins, Kim Fullerton...Read More >>>   5/31/2004 || GAYLE SAVES WEST INDIES BLUSHES 0 GROS ISLET, St. Lucia (AFP): A purposeful, undefeated fifth Test hundred from Chris Gayle helped bring some respectability back to the West Indies batting on the third day of the opening cricket Test against Bangladesh on Sunday. The left-hander smote 14 boundaries in an unbeaten 110 from 246 ba...Read More >>>   5/30/2004 || VAN BRINK HANDED TO US AGENTS 0 KAMPALA - THE MAN WHO IS ACCUSED of fleecing millions from investors from his failed offshore bank in Grenada will soon be on his way to his native United States to face multiple charges. CID has handed over Mr Arthur Ziegler Van Brink, an American businessman, to US law enforcement agents. Van ...Read More >>>     5/30/2004 || WEST INDIES RATTLED BY RAFIQUE'S MAIDEN CENTURY 0 GROS ISLET, St. Lucia - West Indies' stocks were dealt one more cruel blow when Mohammad Rafique, batting at nine, completed his maiden Test hundred for Bangladesh on the second day of the opening Test on Saturday. Already frustrated by the slow nature of the Beausejour Stadium pitch and early m...Read More >>>