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  10/4/2004 || HURRICANE DEVASTATES GRENADA'S SCHOOLS; CHILDREN L...0
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - (KRT) - Hurricane Ivan has left 32,000 children in Grenada facing the prospect of learning their lessons under tents or tarp-patched roofs until the country can rebuild and repair. Fewer than 10 percent of Grenada's schools remain operational. Of the 58 primary schools, fo...Read More >>>
  10/4/2004 || NO SPONSOR FOR REGIONAL ONE-DAY COMPETITION 0
IT'S NOW official that this year's West Indies limited-overs cricket championship will not be sponsored for the first time in its history and there will be one preliminary round of matches. The West Indies Cricket Board late on Saturday announced that the preliminary matches in the competition wo...Read More >>>
  10/4/2004 || NO MORE H-1B VISAS - USCIS0
Washington, D.C.– U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced Friday, October 1, 2004 that it has received enough H-1B petitions to meet the congressionally-mandated cap for fiscal year 2005. Congress has set an annual H-1B cap of 65,000 of which 6,800 are set aside for the H-1B1 pro...Read More >>>
  10/4/2004 || UN APPEALS FOR $59 MILLION TO HELP HURRICANE VICTI...0
United Nations humanitarian agencies today appealed for $59 million to help the people of Haiti and Grenada survive and start to reconstruct their lives in the wake of the series of deadly hurricanes and tropical storms that swept the Caribbean region recently. Under-Secretary-General for Humanit...Read More >>>
  10/4/2004 || GRENADA PM TO SEEK WORLD BANK AID TODAY0
WASHINGTON, D.C., Mon. Oct. 4: Grenada’s Prime Minister Keith Mitchell along with the island’s Minister of Finance, Anthony Boatswain; Ambassador to the U.S., H.E. Denis Antoine; Deputy P/S Min. of Finance, Lennox Andrews and Budget Officer, Kim Frederick, are slated to make a pitch for reconstructi...Read More >>>
  10/4/2004 || MITCHELL URGES OVERSEAS-BASED GRENADIANS TO COME H...0
NEW YORK, NY, Mon. Oct. 4:Grenada’s Prime Minister, Keith Mitchell, came to New York over the weekend and used the podium at the Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn to give Grenadians and other Caribbean nationals a detailed account of how hurricane Ivan decimated the Spice Island and urged them to go ...Read More >>>
  10/2/2004 || THE HOST – A NEW REALITY TELEVISION SERIES0
Brooklyn, New York, September 24th 2004. TimePlus Beats TV – Channel 66 in New York is getting ready to launch its New Reality Television Series on October 3rd 2004 at The BASE, 229 Empire Boulevard, Brooklyn. The New Reality Television Series is expected to be exciting, entertaining and educat...Read More >>>
  10/2/2004 || PM MITCHELL FOR PUBLIC MEETING AT MEDGAR EVERS TOD...0
Grenada's Prime Minister, Dr. the Hon. Keith Mitchell and Hon. Elvin Nimrod, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade will be addressing nationals on Saturday 2nd October, 2004 at the Medgar Evers College Auditorium,1650 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11225 at 5.00 p.m. Everyone is inv...Read More >>>
  10/2/2004 || GRENADA PM CONFIDENT0
PORT OF SPAIN, (AFP) - Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell said here yesterday he did not believe anyone would try to overthrow his administration while he is away from the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean state, making an appeal for international aid. "While I believe there are elements who may s...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || SCAM ALERT! IMMIGRANTS BEWARE.0
NEW YORK, N.Y., Fri. Oct. 1: Caribbean immigrants in the U.S. are being warned to steer clear of recent claims of an immigration amnesty in Florida. The rumor mill has been buzzing recently with claims that a Florida-based group called, HACHO, is offering undocumented immigrants a chance to obta...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || U.S. UPS HURRICANE AID TO CARIBBEAN0
US President George Bush has submitted a request to the US Congress for $50 million in international disaster and famine assistance funds for Grenada, Jamaica, Haiti and other nations affected by recent hurricanes. According to a statement from the US Embassy in Port of Spain, the funds for the ...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || LARA, BROWNE TOUR HURRICANE RAVAGED ISLANDS0
There was a sense of despondency on the face of West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara and wicketkeeper Courtney Browne, who after touring Grenada on Wednesday, visited Jamaica yesterday morning to get a first-hand assessment of damages caused by Hurricane Ivan. It's sad, really sad to see how a ...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || VENEZUELA TO GRENADA’S RESCUE0
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The Venezuelan government has extended its assistance to hurricane ravaged Grenada, which felt the wrath of deadly Ivan early September. The Latin American country has agreed to assist in the reconstruction of 22 schools seriously damaged by the powerful winds of hurricane I...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || MORE BUSINESSES GETTING BACK ELECTRICAL POWER IN G...0
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: More businesses in the Spice Isle of Grenada are getting electrical power as things begin to normalise after the passage of Hurricane Ivan. According to Zarah Chase, Corporate Communications Manager of Grenada Electricity Services Ltd (GRENLEC), the company is continuing its...Read More >>>
  10/1/2004 || A CALL TO INVESTIGATE ‘TERROR’ AT PRISON IN GRENAD...0
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: An attorney at law in Grenada, Arley Gill, is calling on the authorities to investigate what he called a reign of terror unleashed by soldiers of the Regional Security Services (RSS) and members of the Special Services Unit (SSU) on prisoners at the Richmond Hill prison. Las...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || OECS URGES UNITED APPROACH IN GRENADA0
The OECS director general has urged political parties in Grenada to put aside partisan interests and focus on the rebuilding the country. Dr Len Ishmael, who recently led a five-member team to Grenada to assess damages after Hurricane Ivan, told BBC Caribbean Radio that unity is needed at this c...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || ST. GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY STUDENTS START CLASSES IN ...0
Miami, FL: Barry University, just on the outskirts of Miami, will play host to a new class this semester: 320 medical students from Grenada, whose campus is being used as relief center for the devastated island nation. The second-year med students from St. George's University had their educations...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || NYC CARPENTERS UNION MAKES CONTRIBUTION TO GRENADI...1
The Greater New York City Council of Carpenters Union on Saturday, September 25, invited Grenada’s United Nations permanent representative, Ambassador Dr. Lamuel Stanislaus, who’s island suffered devastating destruction from the direct hit of Hurricane Ivan, to its annual union membership family pic...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || ACTRESS KIM FIELDS TO ASSIST IN CARIBBEAN'S RECOVE...0
NEW YORK, NY (Sept. 29, 2004) -- The Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) has announced that American actress Kim Fields has offered to assist the Caribbean tourism industry in the effort to recover from the effects of Hurricanes Frances, Ivan and Jeanne, all of which inflicted damage on the region ...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || MORE THAN $2 BILLION DAMAGES TO GRENADA - OECS 0
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, Thurs. Sept. 30: Grenada’s overall damages from Hurricane Ivan is EC$2.2 billion (US$371,057,506.69) or twice the current value of Spice Island’s GDP. That’s according to officials of the secretariat of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, which recently undertook ...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES SET UP OF AGENCY FOR ...0
PORT OF SPAIN, TRINIDAD: GRENADA'S PRIME MINISTER Dr Keith Mitchell has not bought into the national unity government idea -- but he says he has a better one where the opposition can contribute to the national revival following the hurricane devastation. He has announced he is establishing an Age...Read More >>>
  9/30/2004 || GRENADA STILL IN STORM SHOCK0
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada Alfred Morain could hardly summon the words to describe what he experiences when he looks at his land filled with dead nutmeg trees, which Hurricane Ivan felled as it swept over this island with awe-inspiring winds three weeks ago, blowing away Morain's livelihood. . “There i...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || THE BACKLASH OF IVAN HAS BEGUN IN GRENADA0
ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: Three weeks after the passage of deadly Hurricane Ivan, Grenadians are beginning to feel its backlash as many workers receive letters from their employers to remain at home until further notice, while some are told they will have take pay cut. Trade union offices even in the...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || SHOW GOES ON FOR BUJU BANTON0
Gay rights campaigners OutRage! continued their protests against reggae artist Buju Banton last week. Things almost turned ugly when they picketed outside the Coronet in east London last Sunday, where Banton was performing. The police were on hand to prevent fisticuffs between reggae supporters and...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DISASTER INFORMATION OFFE...0
ARLINGTON, VA Sept. 28, 2004: In the wake of Hurricanes Ivan and Jeanne, the most efficient and effective way to help the people of the Caribbean is to make a monetary donation to a humanitarian organization that is implementing relief programs in the affected region. There are many groups around th...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || GRENADA TRANSFERS 40 INMATES TO ST LUCIA FROM PRIS...0
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Grenada has transferred 40 of the country's most dangerous inmates to St Lucia from a crumbling prison damaged in Hurricane Ivan, officials said Monday. The Category Four hurricane destroyed part of Grenada's Richmond Hill Prison when it devastated the island three wee...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || WICB STAFF SENDS AID TO GRENADA0
ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - The staff of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Secretariat sent off donations including foodstuff, water, household articles and clothing to Grenada in aid of the hurricane relief effort. Grenada was hard hit by Hurricane Ivan earlier this month, as the island suffered a...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || DONOR CONFERENCE FOR BATTERED ISLANDS0
A donor conference will be held for for the Caribbean islands affected by Hurricane Ivan. Barbados foreign minister Dame Billie Miller and Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon have both said Caricom needs international assistance to help Grenada and the other islands affected by hurricanes...Read More >>>
  9/29/2004 || GRENADA RELIEF CO-ORDINATOR FIRED0
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: The district co-ordinator for the parish of St. David's in Grenada received marching orders from the executive of the National Emergency Relief Organisation (NERO) shortly after she answered questions posed to her by a reporter from the Barbados Nation newspaper. Petra Willi...Read More >>>
 
  9/29/2004 || UN APPEALS FOR $27.6 MILLION AID FOR DEVASTATED GR...0
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations on Tuesday appealed for 27.6 million dollars in emergency aid for the small Caribbean island of Grenada, where 90 percent of homes were destroyed by Hurricane Ivan two weeks ago. About half the island's 100,000 inhabitants were living without proper s...Read More >>>

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