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12/18/2006 || ANGLICANS SPLIT - EPISCOPALIANS TO SEVER TIES OVER... 0 Two church congregations in the United States (U.S.) have voted to break away from the Episcopal Church because of its decision three years ago to consecrate a gay bishop. The Truro Church and the Falls Church voted to place themselves instead under the authority of the Anglican Archbishop of Ni...Read More >>>   12/17/2006 || MISSING WOMAN FOUND WITH CHOP WOUNDS 0 CATEGORY:CRIMINAL MATTERS ------------------------------- By Team Grenada Sunday December 17,2007 ST.JOHN (Inside Grenada) - According to unconfirmed reports reaching Grenadianconnection, a young lady from Florida, in the parish of St. John, who has been missing for some days now, was fo...Read More >>>   12/17/2006 || LAW AND POLITICS - THE WIND OF CHANGE IS BLOWING I... 0 CATEGORY:COMMENTARY ---------------------- By Lloyd Noel Sunday December 17,2006 ST.GEORGE'S (Inside Grenada)- I vividly recall, during my years in England working my way to get into Law School, to achieve my boyhood dreams of becoming a Lawyer - the British Prime Minister at the time, Har...Read More >>>   12/17/2006 || EXCERPTS FROM 2006 BUDGET 0 CATEGORY:NATIONAL BUDGET --------------------------- The following is the INTRODUCTION to the 2006 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure (delivered by the Hon. Anthony Boatswain, the Minister of Finance) which was presented under the theme, "Consolidating Growth, Enhancing Revenue and Providing S...Read More >>>   12/16/2006 || DISTURBING PATTERN EMERGING IN CARIBBEAN POLITICS 0 CATEGORY:EDITORIAL ----------------------- THE RECENTLY ELECTED Prime Minister of St. Lucia, Sir John Campton, has expressed concerns about the political involvement of Prime Ministers / political leaders from other Caribbean countries (during the build-up to elections) in sister states to seemi...Read More >>>   12/16/2006 || NNP PERSPECTIVE - CORRUPTION OR ATTENTION-GRABBING... 0 CATEGORY:POLITICS ------------------------ EDITOR'S NOTE: This article represents the views, policies and vision of the New National Party (NNP) headed by Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell. The NNP has been in office since 1995 - for three consecutive terms. In the last general election, the NNP...Read More >>>   12/15/2006 || BVI SAYS NO TO “DUTTY WINE” 0 CATEGORY:ENTERTAINMENT ------------------------------ By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Friday December 15,2006 OFFICIALS IN THE British Virgin Islands have not granted permission to the ‘Dutty Wine’ singer, Tony Matterhon, to put on a stage performance in the BVI. Matterho...Read More >>>   12/15/2006 || CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM HON. YOLANDE BAIN-HORSFORD 0 My dear fellow citizens, friends and well-wishers of Grenada, Carriacou and Petit Martinique, by God’s Goodness and Grace, we have come to the end of yet another very challenging year as a nation, and therefore it is with greatest pleasure as well as a profound feeling of gratitude that I seize this...Read More >>>   12/15/2006 || WHAT IS KWANZAA? 0 Christmas is normally the time of year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and the sacrifice that was made to save man from his sins. However, various celebrations for the season have evolved over the centuries since Christ walked the earth. Among them is the Kwanzaa holiday, which is ...Read More >>>   12/15/2006 || REGIONAL MEDIA ENCOURAGED TO LIFT STANDARDS 0 CATEGORY:FEATURE ADDRESS ------------------------------ By Trevor Thwaites Inside Grenada correspondent Friday December 15,2006 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - Media practitioners across the region are being encouraged to lift their standard, so that they can play a more integral role in the ...Read More >>>   12/14/2006 || BLOOD–THIRSTY DOGS KILL FARMER’S GOATS 0 CATEGORY:AGRICULTURE ----------------------------- By Wallace J.A. Inside Grenada correspondent Thursday December 14,2006 ST. ANDREW, Grenada - Earlier on this week, Mr. Matthew Bobb, a farmer from Crochu, St.Andrew’s, called in the local media to report on the tragedy that befell him. Four...Read More >>>   12/14/2006 || AIR JAMAICA VACATIONS RELAUNCHES ISLAND VACATIONS ... 0 Air Jamaica Vacations® has announced the relaunch of its Island Vacations brand to serve inter-Caribbean travelers. Initially launched in 2001, Island Vacations has been revived to offer convenient and affordable air-inclusive vacation packages to ten destinations throughout the Caribbean including...Read More >>>   12/14/2006 || CXC TO DISCONTINUE BASIC PROFICIENCY EXAMINATION B... 0 The year 2009 will be last time regional students will get the opportunity sit the Basic Proficiency Examinations (BPE) offered by the Council for the Caribbean Secondary Certificate (CSEC). On Wednesday, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) issued an advisory indicating that it will be discon...Read More >>>   12/14/2006 || SAMUELS STARS IN WINDIES SEVEN-WICKET WIN OVER PAK... 0 Stylish right-hander Marlon Samuels stroked his second one-day international (ODI) hundred and steered West Indies to an easy seven-wicket win over Pakistan at Multan Cricket Stadium yesterday. Samuels stroked 100 not out and West Indies won the fourth ODI with more than 15 overs to spare to ke...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || GBSS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AWARDS SIX SCHOLARSHIPS IN... 0 The GBSS Alumni Association of New York held its 15th Annual Scholarship Awards and Christmas Dinner Dance on Saturday, December 9, 2006 at Antun’s in Queens Village, N.Y. The scholarship, called “The Prize To The One Who Earns It” after a line in the chorus of the GBSS School Song, is a non-re...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || HISTORY IN THE MAKING IN GRENADA AS CONSTRUCTION B... 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: History was in the making on Monday as the old Islander Hotel in Grenada was demolished to start construction on a high-end luxury 120 room resort. This resort will be part of the Port Louis Grenada development. Minister of Tourism, Brenda Hood says an investment of this type w...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || SIR JOHN'S ELECTORAL VICTORY 'HEARTENING' - GRENAD... 0 Grenada Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell yesterday offered congratulations to St. Lucia Prime Minister-elect Sir John Compton for his stunning electoral victory, hailing the 82-year-old as a leader with experience and vision. Mitchell said he had already personally called to congratulate Sir Jo...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || TRICIA THOMAS IS NEW SPA DIRECTOR AT SPICE ISLE BE... 0 CATEGORY:NEW APPOINTMENT ---------------------------- GRENADA (Dec. 13, 2006) –Spice Island Beach Resort in Grenada has appointed Tricia Thomas as the new Spa Director of the resort’s full-service, 5,600 square foot Janissa’s Spa. Bringing over ten years of experience in numerous high-en...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || TEACHERS URGED TO HELP MONITOR REGIONAL MEDIA 0 CATEGORY:SPECIAL REPORT ---------------------------- By Wallace J.A. Inside Grenada correspondent Wednesday December 13,2006 DR. SIMON CLARKE, one of the region’s leading educational experts, has made an urgent plea to teachers in Jamaica (and by extension, the entire region), to assist...Read More >>>   12/13/2006 || CORRUPTION RAMPANT SAYS NDC 0 CATEGORY:POLITICS ------------------------ By Trevor Thwaites Inside Grenada correspondent Wednesday December 13,2006 ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has called for a re-opening of the Commission of Inquiry into the alleged wrong doing of Prime ...Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || SAASS IS OVERALL CHAMPION IN NATIONAL SCIENCE FAIR 0 CATEGORY:SCIENCE FAIR ----------------------------- By Wallace J.A. Inside Grenada correspondent Tuesday December 12,2006 TELESCOPE, St. Andrew’s – The St. Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School (SAASS) has (once again) performed with merit at the recently concluded National Science Fair....Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || INITIATIVE TO ENGAGE CARIBBEAN'S BEST SCIENTIFIC M... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has given full support to an initiative by the CARISCIENCE Network to engage qualified Caribbean nationals who are living in other parts of the world on matters relating to science and technology. Mitchell who is CARICOM's Prime Min...Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || GORDON CONFIDENT OF HITTING CWC TICKETS TARGET 0 The Chairman of the West Indies Cricket Board is confident of meeting a target of $ 40 million in overall ticket sales for the 2007 World Cup, which begins next March in Jamaica. Ken Gordon, who also heads the nine local organising committees preparing for the event, said today that over 50 perce...Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || OPPOSITION WINS IN ST LUCIA 0 CASTRIES, St Lucia: Preliminary results from Monday’s general election in St Lucia indicate that the opposition United Workers Party has won 11 out of the 17 seats in the House of Assembly, with the governing St Lucia Labour Party winning the remaining 6. Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony retained ...Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || WINDIES NEED TO BE CONSISTENT- KING 0 The West Indies need consistency ahead of next year's World Cup to keep up a recent run of good form, coach Bennett King said yesterday. "We have had a good year in one-day internationals, but we are still lacking in consistency," said the 42-year-old Australian after his team lost the third day-...Read More >>>   12/12/2006 || SIR JOHN CAMPTON IS BACK AS PRIME MINISTER OF ST. ... 0 CATEGORY:ELECTION RESULT ---------------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Tuesday December 12,2006 SIR JONH CAMPTON, who led St. Lucia for some twenty-nine years – first from 1964 to 1979 and then from 1982 to 1996 – came out of political retirement last year to le...Read More >>>   12/11/2006 || ‘GRENADA 17' MAY WALK FREE 23 YEARS AFTER CARIBBEA... 0 CATEGORY:MAJOR DEVELOPMENT ------------------------------ Duncan Campbell Monday December 11, 2006 ONE OF THE MOST controversial armed conflicts of the cold war era and one which caused a rift between Britain and the US is to be revisited this week in a British court. The case will re-exam...Read More >>>   12/11/2006 || “TRINI-GRINI SOCA CLASH' SENDS PATRONS IN RAGE 0 CATEGORY:CONTROVERSY ----------------------- By Team Grenada Monday December 11,2006 ST. ANDREW’S, Grenada – A very well-publicized show-down between some top Trinidadian and Grenadian soca artistes at Moonlight City on Saturday December 8, 2006, did not live up to the expectations of patr...Read More >>>   12/11/2006 || ST. ANDREW’S N W – NNP TEAM HOLDS SPORT-O-RAMA AT ... 0 CATEGORY:COMMUNITY EVENT ----------------------------- By Wallace J.A Inside Grenada correspondent Monday December 11,2006 MT.HORNE, St. Andrew – The St. Andrew’s North-west NNP Branch Executive held a successful Barbecue/ sport-o-rama at the Mt. Horne Playing Field yesterday (Sunday De...Read More >>>     12/11/2006 || ONGOING WORK ON GRANBY STREET 0 The Ministry of Communications, Works and Transport wishes to inform the general public that work is ongoing on Granby Street. The Ministry is in the process of modifying the upper section of the drain in front of KFC and Digicel hoping to arrest the flooding situation. Work is progressing at nig...Read More >>>