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  8/2/2004 || I WON'T QUIT SAYS LARA0
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP): Under-fire West Indies captain Brian Lara defiantly insisted on Sunday that he would not quit despite his team suffering another crushing defeat. England won the second Test by 256 runs at Edgbaston with more than a day to spare but Lara, in his second spell as skipper ...Read More >>>
  8/2/2004 || GILES SPINS ENGLAND TO VICTORY0
BIRMINGHAM, England (AFP): Ashley Giles took five wickets as England beat West Indies by 256 runs to win the second Test with more than a day to spare at Edgbaston here Sunday. England's victory gave them an unbeatable 2-0 lead in the four-match series. Left-arm spinner Giles's haul of five fo...Read More >>>
  8/2/2004 || RIVAL CARNIVAL FACTIONS THREATEN TO DIVIDE CARIBBE...0
Months of acrimony surrounding Manchester’s annual Caribbean carnival should have ended last weekend with the spectacular celebrations in the city’s Alexandra Park. However, the bitter row looks set to drag on, with a near certain legal challenge over the city council’s own rival Caribbean carni...Read More >>>
  8/1/2004 || ENGLAND LEAD WINDIES BY AN IMPOSING 4780
West Indies bowled England out for 248 with a dominating lead of 478 on the fourth morning at Edgbaston, with Chris Gayle picking up career-best figures of 5 for 34 after Marcus Trescothick reached his second century of the match - the first man to do so at Edgbaston. Graham Thorpe chipped in with a...Read More >>>
  8/1/2004 || DAY CARE SERVICE FOR CARRIACOU0
The Carriacou Child Development Centre will be opened on September 7, 2004. The Day Care Centre will be temporarily located in Brunswick. In the meantime, a permanent building will be constructed in Beausejour. The Ministry of Carriacou and Petit Martinique Affairs will operate the Centre in c...Read More >>>
  7/31/2004 || WINDIES FIGHT BACK0
After England struck this morning with the big wicket of Brian Lara, West Indies continued to claw their way back into the match, with Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul adding an unbeaten 67 in quick time to take the score to 288 for 3 at lunch. Lara fell five runs short of what would...Read More >>>
  7/30/2004 || SEX ASSAULT VICTIM WON'T BE DEPORTED TO GRENADA0
TORONTO, CANADA: A 19-year-old Grenadian woman who claims she was the victim of sexual assault will be allowed to stay in Canada under a protection order. The high school student, who arrived in July, 2001 and overstayed her visitor's visa, was slated for deportation to Grenada on Wednesday. ...Read More >>>
  7/30/2004 || GRENADA LAWYERS ADVISE STAKEHOLDERS ABOUT COPYRIGH...0
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Musicians, photographers and writers, among others, were sensitized about copyright and intellectual property rights during a session organized by the Grenada Bar Association under the theme Copyright Made Simple. President of the Grenada Bar Association Ruggles Ferguson als...Read More >>>
  7/30/2004 || CARIBBEAN HOTEL ASSOCIATION AWARDS US$60,100 IN SC...0
Leiseth Chambers, a student in hotel management at the University of the West Indies Mona campus is one of 22 students from the region who work in the hotel and tourism sector who have been awarded scholarships and grants from the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA). Chambers will now transfer to t...Read More >>>
  7/30/2004 || UK ANNOUNCES NEW IMMIGRATION RULES. STUDENTS IN N...0
LONDON - The United Kingdom (UK) has announced a tightening of immigration regulations, which could affect West Indians on temporary visas including students in non-degree programmes. The changes, which take effect on October 1, are designed to restrict the circumstances under which migrants on t...Read More >>>
  7/29/2004 || WINDIES HUNT EQUALISER0
BIRMINGHAM, England (CMC) - Acutely aware of a developing trend of poor bowling performances on the opening day of Test matches, West Indies skipper Brian Lara remains hopeful that his array of very young and inexperienced bowlers can avoid a repetition of the growing malaise if his team is in the f...Read More >>>
  7/29/2004 || TRINIDAD GOVERNMENT GAINS CONTROL OF BWIA0
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC: THE TRINIDAD and Tobago government was yesterday given a report on the viability of the financially-plagued BWIA, as the Patrick Manning administration moves to acquire control of the airline it privatised in 1995. Trade and Industry Minister Ken Valley told repo...Read More >>>
  7/29/2004 || WINDIES FIVE FOR THE AGES NAMED0
BIRMINGHAM, England - George Headley. Brian Lara. Sir Vivian Richards. Sir Garfield Sobers. Sir Frank Worrell. All are former West batting legends. All are West Indies captains. And all have been chosen as the Five West Indies Jubilee Cricketers on Tuesday at a lavish awards ceremony held at th...Read More >>>
  7/29/2004 || CARICOM BUREAU DISCUSSES HAITI0
The Bureau of the Conference of the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have agreed on recommendations to be forwarded to colleague Heads after deliberating on the Final Report of the Ministerial Delegation to Haiti during a meeting today in St. George’s CARICOM Chairman Prim...Read More >>>
  7/29/2004 || CARIBBEAN CULTURE TOPS LIST FOR SMITHSONIAN MAGAZI...0
NEW YORK, NY (July 28, 2004) – The Caribbean’s intriguing culture is among major areas of interest that influence travellers’ choice of a destination, one of the leading US magazines focusing on culture, science, natural history, travel and the arts has indicated. According to Smithsonian Magazin...Read More >>>
  7/28/2004 || AFRICAN-CARIBBEAN GOLF ASSOCIATION FORGES UNITY IN...0
African-Caribbean golf in the UK is going from strength to strength. As the world’s best golfers did battle at The Open, members of the African-Caribbean Golf Association were being every bit as competitive at the West Malling Golf Club in Kent. They were competing in a society day to further en...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || D-DAY FOR WINDIES GREATEST- TOP 5 TO BE NAMED TONI...4
THE FIVE greatest West Indies cricketers of all time will be named this evening at the Scotiabank West Indian Jubilee's gala banquet at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, England. This function, which is expected to attract some 600 guests, is scheduled to get underway at 7 o'clock and will be re...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || REGION'S TOURISM TO EARN US$40.3B THIS YEAR0
The Caribbean will earn US$40.3 billion from tourism this year, 10 per cent more than it did in 2003, according to a study conducted by the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC). The study, which was conducted on behalf of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) over a year ago, was released to t...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || CARIBBEAN LEADERS HEAD TO GRENADA TO DISCUSS DIPLO...0
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - Caribbean leaders will meet in Grenada tomorrow to consider whether to restore diplomatic ties with Haiti, officials said yesterday. A delegation of five foreign ministers from the 15-member Caribbean Community visited Haiti earlier this month. After the trip ended July ...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || GRENADA'S FIU ADMITTED INTO THE EGMONT GROUP OF FI...0
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Grenada’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is now an official member of the Egmont Group of FIUs, which brings together anti-money laundering organizations or financial intelligence units from around the world. According to a government statement, the Grenada FIU was admitt...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || BRITISH PM ON HOLIDAY IN BARBADOS0
LONDON, England (AFP): British Prime Minister Tony Blair has left London to spend his summer holiday in Barbados, a Downing Street spokesman said on Monday. Blair left London on Sunday evening for the Caribbean island, the spokesman said, without providing any more details of the trip or saying h...Read More >>>
  7/27/2004 || SHIV DENIED CENTURY AS ENGLAND WIN FIRST TEST0
LONDON – Shivnarine Chanderpaul just missed out on joining Michael Vaughan in scoring centuries in both innings of the match, and it was the England captain and his teammates who were all smiles in completing a 210-run victory over the West Indies 15 minutes before tea on the final day of the first...Read More >>>
  7/26/2004 || LARA, 'SHIV' HOLD THE KEY 0
THE FIRST Test of the NPower series between the West Indies and England enters its fifth and final day at Lord's today with the home team on top and tipped to take the early lead in the four-match contest. At stumps at the end of a sunny but cold and windy day in St. John's Wood, the scoreboard r...Read More >>>
  7/26/2004 || REGION COULD EARN $36B FROM CRICKET WORLD CUP0
WESTERN BUREAU - Caribbean countries stand to earn $36.6 billion (US$600 million) over the next three years from the staging of World Cup Cricket, according to organisers of the event that will get underway with an opening ceremony in Jamaica in 2007. "According to a report that was done for us, ...Read More >>>
  7/26/2004 || GRENADA’S OPPOSITION ASKS US FOR ASSISTANCE0
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Moves are afoot in Grenada by the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to ask the United States Justice Department for assistance in relation to allegations that Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell received a US$500,000 bribe in 2000 from former German dip...Read More >>>
  7/24/2004 || SWEET DEAL FOR ST. KITTS0
St Kitts and Nevis will be the site for a multi million project to cultivate a sugar replacement that has provoked a lot of debate in health circles. On Wednesday the St Kitts and Nevis government signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the NaturalSweet Company for a $90 million project to grow...Read More >>>
  7/24/2004 || ANOTHER GREEN CARD SCAM EXPOSED3
NEW YORK (AP) - Two people have been indicted on charges of bilking dozens of immigrants out of thousands of dollars by falsely promising to help them get a "green card" based on an exemption available to religious workers. Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau alleged that Christopher Pe...Read More >>>
  7/24/2004 || LARA DISMISSAL SOURS WINDIES FIGHT BACK0
LONDON, CMC - Another controversial dismissal of Brian Lara threatened to completely ruin a worthy West Indies fightback on the second day of the First Test against England at Lord's on Friday. But having slipped to 139 for four with the captain's departure in reply to the hosts' formidable firs...Read More >>>
  7/23/2004 || YVETTE CLARKE DECLARES CANDIDACY FOR CONGRESS0
NEW YORK, NY - Yvette Clarke, daughter of former Jamaican-born New York councilwoman Una Clarke, yesterday officially announced her candidacy for the 11th Congressional District. New leadership that understands the new challenges that the district faces was necessary to correct the stagnation tha...Read More >>>
 
  7/23/2004 || WINDIES BOWLERS PLUNDERED BY KEY AND STRAUSS (1ST ...0
LONDON - Robert Key made the most of a rare opportunity and Andrew Strauss' love affair with his home ground continued as the pair showed no mercy against an inexperienced and wayward West Indies bowling attack on the opening day of the first cricket Test on Thursday. Sent in to bat, England, l...Read More >>>

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