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11/9/2006 || US SUPPORTING REGIONAL SECURITY 0 THE Caribbean region has been advised that networking is the best way to improve airport security, and this approach has been fully endorsed by the United States of America in its global battle against terrorism. The pledge of support came yesterday from newly installed US Ambassador to Barbados...Read More >>>   11/9/2006 || WINDIES TOIL AGAINST BOARD XI IN TOUR OPENER 0 LAHORE, Pakistan - West Indies toiled with little success on the opening day of a two-day practice match against the Pakistan Cricket Board Patron's XI yesterday at the Bagh-e-Jinnah Stadium. Salman Butt gave the Pakistani selectors 106 reasons why he should have been selected for the forthcoming...Read More >>>   11/9/2006 || UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGAIN URGES LIFTING OF US EMBA... 0 UNITED NATIONS, (AFP): The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 15th time in a row to demand an end to the four-decade-old US trade embargo against communist-ruled Cuba. By a vote of 183 in favour, four against and one abstention, the 192-member assembly decided to includ...Read More >>>   11/9/2006 || DEMOCRATS SWEEP US ELECTIONS, RUMSFELD RESIGNS 1 Democrats swept Republicans from power in the U.S. House of Representatives and moved close to victory in the Senate yesterday, dealing a sharp rebuke to President George W. Bush that led quickly to Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's resignation. Bush said he was "obviously disappointed" at the...Read More >>>   11/9/2006 || WI WILL BE COMPETIVE IN WORLD CUP SAYS LARA 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS(CRICKET) ----------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites Inside Grenada correspondent Thursday November 09,2006 WEST INDIES cricket captain, Brain Lara, believes that the team will be very competitive in the World Cup on home soil. This sentiment was shared by Lara afte...Read More >>>   11/9/2006 || RANGERS VICTORIOUS OVER SPRINGS IN KNOCKOUT COMPET... 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS(SOCCER) ----------------------------- By Lester Smith (Technical Director, GFA) Inside Grenada correspondent Thursday November 09,2006 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Queens Park Rangers have started their quest for another title yesterday when they were convincing winners 3-0 ove...Read More >>>   11/8/2006 || LARA SAYS WINDIES HAS THE EDGE 0 West Indies captain Brian Lara believes the absence of Pakistani pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif will give his side the edge in the three-Test series which bowls off Saturday. Both players were recently banned from competitive cricket by the Pakistan Cricket Board after failing drug tests...Read More >>>   11/8/2006 || REMAPPING OF GRENADA 0 St. George's. Grenada -- 7 Nov. 2006 -- Friday, November 3rd was a historic day at the Agency for Reconstruction and Development (ARD). A Press Briefing was conducted at which members of the media were updated on the Grenada LIDAR Remapping Project. In his introductory remarks, ARD Chief Executiv...Read More >>>   11/8/2006 || DISCUSSION BRIEF ON CLIMATE CHANGE - NATIONAL BUDG... 0 CATEGORY:BUDGET CONSUNTATION ------------------------------------ THE REALITY OF global climate change in upon us. It is evident in the increases in temperatures that we are experiencing, with data from Point Salines International Airport showing that 2005 was the hottest year on record and th...Read More >>>   11/8/2006 || WEST INDIES SHOWS IMPROVEMENT 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS -------------------- By Trevor Thwaites Inside Grenada correspondent Wednesday November 08,2006 DESPITE LOSING the ICC Championship final to world Champions Australia, West Indies have shown that they are a force to reckon with in world cricket. At number eight in the wo...Read More >>>   11/7/2006 || WINDIES BEGIN FIRST PAKISTAN TOUR IN NINE YEARS 0 LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP): The West Indies cricket squad arrived here Monday to play three Tests and five one-day internationals during their first tour of Pakistan in nine years. The West Indies had refused to tour Pakistan over security concerns in the wake of September 11 attacks and Pakistan had...Read More >>>   11/7/2006 || CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES ON MOST CORRUPT LIST 0 Haiti has not been the only Caribbean country to fare badly in a report on government corruption by Transparency International. In its latest report the Berlin-based anti-corruption agency ranks Haiti as the most corrupt country in the world. The table is based on the views of analysts and the...Read More >>>   11/7/2006 || BARBADOS HOLDS GRENADA TO A 2-2 DRAW 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (SOCCER) ------------------------------ By Lester Smith, (Technical Director, GFA) Inside Grenada contributor Tuesday November 07,2006 GRENADA NATIONAL Footballers led Barbados twice and had to settle for 2-2 draw with in a friendly match at Carlton Club, Black Rock, St...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || ARKENSON SCORES AGAIN BUT HIS MISSES OUT 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (SOCCER) ------------------------------ By Lester Smith, Technical Director, GFA Inside Grenada correspondent GRENADIAN BORN Arkenson Neckles is proven to be a prolific goal scorer for Marshalltown Community College. Neckles scored the lone goal in a 2-1 defeat to College ...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || FINAL BUDGET CONSULTATION SET FOR THIS WEEK 0 CATEGORY:BUDGET --------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Monday November 06,2006 ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – Wednesday November 08 has been set aside as the date for the final consultation on the 2007 estimates of revenue and expenditure. This consultation is schedul...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || GRENADA PLEASED WITH ITS PARTICIPATION IN FCCA CON... 0 Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Dr. Keith Mitchell completed attendance of his first ever FCCA conference as he attended the Thirteenth Annual Florida Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) Conference and Trade Show in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands from October 31st to November 2nd, 2006. During his his...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || EXPERTS URGE ACTION ON CRICKET WORLD CUP 0 WASHINGTON (November 5, 2006) – "There is still time to use the 2007 Cricket World Cup as a positive force for longer term tourism promotion in the Caribbean," said the head of an international development agency. Lelei LeLaulu, president of Counterpart International which organizes the Caribbe...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH PREDICTED FOR EASTERN CA... 0 Member states of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) can look forward to sustained economic growth for the rest of this year and into 2007, according to the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB). Inflows of foreign direct investment associated with tourism related construction activity ...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || DIPLOMAT CALLS FOR SPEEDY CHANGES TO US PASSPORT R... 0 A senior Caribbean Community (CARICOM) diplomat has called on United States legislators and the Bush administration to speedily ease the new passport rules, stating that they would significantly impact on the economies of the region. Dr. Dennis Antoine, Grenada's ambassador to the United States ...Read More >>>   11/6/2006 || LARA STILL POSITIVE DESPITE WINDIES LOSS TO AUSTRA... 0 Brian Lara believes West Indies are in good stead to compete for the World Cup on home soil after reaching the final of the ICC Champions Trophy. After defeat to Australia in Mumbai, he said: "We just have to work on crossing the final hurdle. "It will definitively give us impetus we need fo...Read More >>>   11/5/2006 || NO MORE HAIR IN INTERNATIONAL CRICKET MATCHES 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (CRICKET) --------------------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Sunday November 05,2006 THE UMPIRE who has been at the center of the ‘ball-tampering’ controversy between Pakistan and England in August of this year, Darrell Hair, will not be offici...Read More >>>   11/5/2006 || ARD TO UNDERTAKE REMAPPING OF GRENADA 0 CATEGORY:RE-MAPPING --------------------------- by Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Sunday November 05,2006 ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – On Friday (November 03), the Agency for Reconstruction and Development (ARD) held a press conference to update members of the media about Grenada’s Re...Read More >>>   11/4/2006 || SEAFOOD ON OUR PLATE COULD BECOME A THING OF THE P... 0 CATEGORY:RESEARCH INFORMATION ----------------------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Saturday November 04,2006 DURING THIS WEEK a team of international scientists and researchers expressed the belief that if urgent steps are not taken to reverse present trends, ...Read More >>>   11/4/2006 || CORPORATE SPONSORS ON BOARD FOR INAUGURAL MEDIA AW... 0 CATEGORY:AWARDS CEREMONY -------------------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Saturday November 04,2006 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The inaugural Media Awards Ceremony, scheduled to take place on Saturday December 02, 2006, is reportedly generating quite a lot of cor...Read More >>>   11/4/2006 || CRAFT INITIATIVE FOR CRICKET WORLD CUP 2007 0 CATEGORY:ART & CRAFT ---------------------------- From Grenada Industrial Development Corporation Press Release for Inside Grenada Saturday November 04,2006 THE GRENADA Industrial Development Corporation in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs Division will be la...Read More >>>   11/3/2006 || WINDIES PLAYERS RESPONDING TO ADVICE, SAYS LLOYD 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (CRICKET) --------------------------------- Reprinted from CMC Friday, November 03, 2006 JAIPUR, India (CMC) - Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd said Wednesday he was pleased with the way the West Indies players had responded to his advice. LLOYD... I gave them a...Read More >>>   11/3/2006 || GRENADA DOCUMENTARY SCREENED IN VANCOUVER, BC 0 An enthusiastic crowd gathered on Sunday, October 29 at the Pacific Cinematheque Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia to attend the premiere screening of the documentary film, Grenada: The Maroon Spirit. The documentary was filmed on the island of Grenada in November 2004 and shows the devasta...Read More >>>   11/3/2006 || LAWSUIT CLAIMS GRENADA MINISTER SOUGHT BRIBE FOR O... 0 NEW YORK, USA (Bloomberg): A US company has claimed in a lawsuit filed in New York that its efforts to get a licence to explore for oil and natural gas off the coast of Grenada were blocked after they refused in 1996 to give a bribe to Grenada's agriculture minister, Gregory Bowen. Billionaire M...Read More >>>   11/3/2006 || LARA LOOKS FORWARD TO AUSSIE CHALLENGE 0 JAIPUR, India (AFP): West Indies cricket captain Brian Lara has said his team are gaining momentum ahead of the Champions Trophy final against Australia. "We are building up the momentum and the guys have started believing in themselves," Lara said after his team's crushing six-wicket victory ove...Read More >>>     11/3/2006 || GAYLE BLASTS WINDIES INTO FINAL 0 Chris Gayle struck a magnificent 15th ODI century as West Indies sealed a superb six-wicket semi-final win over South Africa in the Champions Trophy. Gayle smashed 17 fours and three sixes in an unbeaten 133, sharing 154 in 26 overs for the first wicket with Shiv Chanderpaul, who retired hurt on ...Read More >>>