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11/3/2004 || PM MITCHELL EXPRESSES APPRECIATION TO CABLE & WIRE... 0 Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has expressed appreciation to the management and staff of Cable & Wireless Grenada for their response during what he described as “the most difficult time this Country has ever seen.” The Prime Minister met with Cable and Wireless staff shortly after Hurricane Ivan s...Read More >>>   11/3/2004 || GRENADA POLICE HALTING AMNESTY ON NUMBER PLATES 0 ST. GEORGES, Grenada, Weds. Nov. 3: The Royal Grenada Police Force is cracking down on vehicles owners who are refusing to repair their number plates. According to Michael Francois, head of the Traffic Department at Central Police Station on the Carenage ASP, a number of vehicles were damages fol...Read More >>>   11/3/2004 || CDB FULLY BEHIND GRENADA RECONSTRUCTION 0 The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has pledged to make representation for 20 million US dollars in financial support, on Grenada’s behalf, to the International Development Bank (IDB). The money would be used mainly for the construction of low-income housing and a credit facility for the privat...Read More >>>   11/3/2004 || PAHO REDOUBLING EFFORTS TO REBUILD GRENADA'S HEAL... 0 The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) is redoubling efforts to assist Grenada following the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan on September 7. This was among matters discussed when Director of PAHO, Dr. Mirta Roses, met with Prime Minister Keith Mitchell today, Tuesday 2nd November. Dr...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || BENNETT KING APPOINTS AUSSIE ASSISTANT 0 When Bennett King takes up the post as West Indies head coach in mid-November, he will have a familiar face as his full-time assistant: Australian academy senior coach David Moore. Moore, who was in charge of using technology to provide specialist feedback to players at Australia's Centre of Exc...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || RUTH ROUSE APPOINTED AMBASSADOR 0 The Government of Grenada has appointed a new Ambassador/Permanent Representative to the United Nations. RUTH ELIZABETH ROUSE was appointed Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Grenada to the United Nations on November 01, 2004. Ambassador Rouse joined the Grenada Foreign Service in 1982 and ...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || CABINET SEEKS TO EASE THE BURDEN OF IVAN 0 The Government of Grenada, mindful of the suffering that many categories of citizens have endured since the passage of Hurricane Ivan, is taking steps to bring relief and ease the burden on citizens. The Government is particularly concerned that many workers, who already face the psychological tr...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || LAW AND POLITICS: WE ARE SENDING THE WRONG SIGNALS 0 by Lloyd Noel The way the politics in our devastated Tri-Island State is unfolding, or developing -- if that is the right term in the circumstances -- must be producing serious food for thought for our neighbours and aid donors worldwide, as well as our people here at home and abroad in the many ...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT TO EXAMINE INSURANCE CLAIMS COM... 0 ST GEORGE‘S, Grenada: The Grenada Cabinet agreed Monday to set up a three member team comprising Minister of Education and Labour, Claris Charles; Minister of Tourism, Brenda Hood; and Minister responsible for Business, Einstein Louison, to examine complaints made by members of the public regarding ...Read More >>>   11/2/2004 || MOBILE CAREGIVERS PROGRAM DISTRIBUTES FOOD HAMPERS... 0 ST. GEORGES, Grenada, Tues. Nov. 2: Fulfilling a promise to return with relief supplies, Coordinator for the Mobile Caregivers Program, Erva Hastick, recently distributed more than sixty food hampers to families in the parish of St. David. The MCP is a regional parenting skills program that is co...Read More >>>   11/1/2004 || DIGICEL IN ON GRENADA REBUILDING 0 In keeping with its commitment to assist hurricane-ravaged Grenada’s rehabilitation, Digicel will be using an initial EC $1 million pledged to the Red Cross to start rebuilding the T.A. Marryshow Community College and the Grenada Boys’ Secondary School. Getting the children back into school has ...Read More >>>   11/1/2004 || GRENADA - DOWN, BUT NOT OUT 0 The stadium that hosted a recent CAC Championships may be in a shambles and accommodations may be in short supply as a result of the recent hurricane Ivan which devastated the Isle of Spice, but Charles A. R. George, president of the Grenada Athletic Association, does not see this as an impediment t...Read More >>>   11/1/2004 || WICB NAMES NEW MANAGER AND COACH 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has made two senior appointments to the West Indies Team Operations Unit. Anthony Howard has been appointed as Manager and Bennett King as Head Coach. Sir Garfield Sobers has also been contracted as Technical Consultant to the West Indie...Read More >>>   11/1/2004 || PROSPECTS GRIM FOR CARIBBEAN IMMIGRANTS 0 A new survey claims that Caribbean immigrants in the United States are far less well-off in recent years than native born Americans. The survey conducted by the Washington-based Pew Hispanic Center analysed data from 1996 to 2002 and showed that the 2001 recession and the subsequent jobless recov...Read More >>>   10/31/2004 || STORMS BLOW TOGETHER ISLAND IMMIGRANTS 0 By Andreae Downs, Globe Correspondent This season's devastating hurricanes in the Caribbean have brought together Boston-based immigrants from several island nations to provide relief. And though the storms are no longer in the news, the destruction they left is still causing hardship throughout ...Read More >>>   10/31/2004 || TWO INVASIONS, SIMILAR LIES 0 By Rickey Singh LAST week as Grenadians marked the 21st anniversary of the United States military invasion of that Eastern Caribbean country, a striking parallel was being made in the politics of deception hatched for George Bush's war on Iraq and what unravelled under Ronald Reagan's administr...Read More >>>   10/31/2004 || GRENADA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION SACKS ALI AND APPOINT... 1 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, Oct 30, (GrenadaSports) – The Grenada Football Association (GFA) on Saturday officially announced the appointment of Mike Adams as the new Head Coach of Grenada’s National Football team. Adams, who previously was contracted as a consultant with the GFA, has replaced Alister ...Read More >>>   10/30/2004 || GRENADIANS BEING OFFERED FREE COUNSELLING 0 An International Christian Organization, Foursquare Mission, joins in Grenada’s rebuilding efforts, following the devastation by Hurricane Ivan more than six weeks ago. True to its mission statement to train others, the Inter-denominational Movement has organized a free training programme, which ...Read More >>>   10/30/2004 || YOUTH DEPARTMENT HOSTS BONFIRE REFLECTION 0 As a part of the “Post Ivan Community Redemption Project – Restoration and Empowerment,” the St. George Coordinating Committee hosted a bonfire and cook-up at the base of Darbeau Hill, Queens Park on Thursday (October 28) The event attracted approximately 60 young people from the surrounding vil...Read More >>>   10/30/2004 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT GIVES TAX- AND DUTY-FREE CONCES... 0 The Ministry of Finance would like to advise the general public that, with immediate effect, and until December 31st 2004 (except amended) the following items are granted tax and duty free status, to facilitate social and economic reconstruction. Residential All building materials (with the exc...Read More >>>   10/30/2004 || AN APPLE A DAY FOR CANCER PREVENTION 0 Eat Your Spinach, Broccoli, and Apples for Cancer Prevention Oct. 18, 2004 -- An apple a day plus a veggie-intensive diet are the stars of new cancer prevention studies. The findings are being presented at the annual Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference in Seattle. A chemical ...Read More >>>   10/30/2004 || US POLITICANS WOO CARIBBEAN VOTERS 0 Florida's growing Caribbean-American community is being heavily courted by the political heavyweights in the run up to next week's Presidential election. Caribbean-American voters have traditionally supported the Democratic Party but their issues have been largely overshadowed by those of the Afr...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || PM MITCHELL FOR BARDADOS TODAY 0 Prime Minister Keith Mitchell leaves Grenada on Friday (October 29) for Barbados where he will hold separate meetings with Prime Minister Owen Arthur and Government officials at the British, Canadian and American embassies to discuss the ongoing reconstruction efforts in Grenada, following the devas...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || ROYAL MESSAGE FOR HURRICANE-HIT CARIBBEAN 0 By Emily Pennink, PA News The Queen lent her support Wednesday to the people of the Caribbean whose lives have been devastated by hurricanes in recent months. She has donated an undisclosed sum of money to a British Red Cross Caribbean Hurricane Appeal which will go towards helping them reb...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || QUICK IMPACT SUPPORT RECOMMENDED FOR GRENADA, HAIT... 0 NEW YORK--A team of United Methodist relief specialists just back from Haiti and Grenada is recommending new quick impact initiatives to help both island nations recover from devastating hurricanes in recent weeks. Urgent needs in Haiti include a speed-up of food distribution and reconstruction ...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || BEWARE OF DIVERSITY VISA SCAM 0 NEW YORK, N.Y., Fri. Oct. 29: Caribbean immigrants are being warned to avoid email that informs them they are winners of the Diversity Visa or Greencard lottery. The email, according to one obtained by HBN, claims it is from the U.S. government, but according to immigration attorneys of the offic...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || PRIORITY BATTLE IN GRENADA 0 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Seven weeks after the passage of Hurricane Ivan in Grenada and things are not much better save and except the utilities companies that have demonstrated fairly good level of organization. The political landscape remains a puzzle to many; more so those who have lost ev...Read More >>>   10/29/2004 || GRENADA OPPOSITION BOYCOTT RECONSTRUCTION MEETINGS 0 ST. GEORGE’S, GRENADA: Opposition Leader Tillman Thomas has led his National Democratic Congress out of dealings with the Keith Mitchell administration until “it is forced to account” to Grenadians about the reconstruction. When Prime Minister Keith Mitchell convened a meeting Wednesday with poli...Read More >>>   10/28/2004 || GUYANA TROOPS GET CRACKING IN GRENADA 0 THE Guyana Defence Force (GDF) contingent in Grenada is buckling down to helping reconstruction on the hurricane-devastated island, commander Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Lovell said yesterday. “The morale (of the soldiers) is excellent; they are settled in well and just eager to get on with the busi...Read More >>>     10/28/2004 || GRENADA HIT BY CRUISE LINES' CANCELLATIONS 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Three cruise lines indefinitely cancelled visits to Grenada because of major damage caused by Hurricane Ivan, officials said yesterday. The cancellations are a blow to the tourism-dependent Caribbean nation as it attempts to recover from the September 7 storm that kill...Read More >>>