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5/11/2006 || DEADLINE NEARS FOR CMEX FELLOWSHIPS 0 CASTRIES, St. Lucia (May 10, 2006) – Journalists and editors who would like media fellowships to attend Counterpart International's Caribbean Media Exchange on Sustainable Tourism (CMEx) series have until Wednesday, May 17, 2006 to get their applications in. St. Lucia will host the fifth annivers...Read More >>>   5/11/2006 || WATTS & FLETCHER JUNIOR SPORTS PERSONALITIES… 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE's, Grenada: Swimmer Tuesday Watts and Cricketer Andre Fletcher have been named the 2005 Junior Sports Personalities of Grenada. They received the awards at the 2005 Sports Personalities Award Ceremony last week Saturday at the Flambouyant...Read More >>>   5/11/2006 || SPORTS: A VEHICLE FOR CHANGE… 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE's, Grenada: Director of Sports and Physical Education of the University of the West Indies St Augustine Trinidad Dr Iva Gloudon is proposing that Grenada and the region use Sport as a Vehicle for change. This was the message, as she deli...Read More >>>   5/11/2006 || FRANCIQUE & BERNARD-THOMAS 2005 SPORTS PERSONALITI... 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE's, Grenada: Athletes Alleyne Francique and Neisha Bernard Thomas have been named the 2005 sports personalities of Grenada. They easily got the nod over a field of more than 20 other sports personalities, who vied for the prestigious awar...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || REGION WILL BE READY SAYS PM 0 By Trevor Thwaites ( St. George's correspondent) ST. GEORGE's, Grenada: Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell says that the region will be ready to host one of the best Cricket World Cups next year. He told reporters in Washington DC last week that all of the 24 deliverables for the mega event is be...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || GRENADA HOTEL OFF LIMITS 0 One of Grenada's leading hotels has been recommended "off limits" to U.S. visitors in an advisory from the U.S. Embassy in Barbados. Here is the text of the advisory: U.S. Embassy Bridgetown issued the following Warden Message for Grenada on May 3: American citizens residing in or visiting ...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || CARIBBEAN BUSINESSES DRIVE NEW MECHANISM TO STRENG... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: Representatives of the regional private sector, local organising committees for Cricket World Cup and other regional bodies are participating in a two day workshop to further develop the Caribbean Business Opportunities Service and Caribbean Business Club, two services that org...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || WINDIES, ZIMBABWE IN HISTORIC DAY/NIGHT CLASH 0 CASTRIES, Saint Lucia - Expectations were running high yesterday as West Indies and Zimbabwe prepared for the fifth Digicel One-Day International (ODI) in their current seven-match series which the Windies lead, 3-0. Both teams had net sessions yesterday at the Beausejour Ground after arriving fr...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || MORE PUBLIC SECTOR IMPROVEMENT ASSISTANCE 0 By Trevor Thwaites ( Sr. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE's, Grenada: Grenada has received more assistance for the creation of a more effective and efficient Public Service. The Public Sector Management Improvement Project, (PSMIP) funded by the British Government to tune of close to $3millio...Read More >>>   5/10/2006 || GOV’T HELP NUTMEG WORKERS 0 By Trevor Thwaites ( St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE'S, Grenada: Workers, who have been retrenched by the Grenada Cooperative Nutmeg Association (GCNA) following the destruction caused by Hurricane Ivan, will receive some benefits from the government. The GCNA has decided to compensate the ...Read More >>>   5/9/2006 || GETTING STORM READY FOR THE 2006 HURRICANE SEASON 0 PHILIPSBURG - Preparations are well underway on some Caribbean islands for the 2006 hurricane season. Governments from the Western to the Southern Caribbean are already in the process of reviewing their storm readiness and have at the same time urged their residents to do the same. Hurricane ...Read More >>>   5/9/2006 || LARA TO LEAD WINDIES IN PROMOTIONAL MATCHES IN NEW... 0 WEST INDIES captain Brian Lara will lead a squad of current West Indies players in two promotional one-day matches in New York in July. Cricket International, a New York-based cricket newspaper, one of the sponsors of the event, confirmed Lara's availability along with that of several other West...Read More >>>   5/9/2006 || HELLO CARIB FESTIVAL, GOODBYE CARIBANA 0 A NEW day is dawning for summer carnival in Toronto. This year the Toronto Caribbean Festival will replace the 38-year-old Caribana. But not everyone is warming to this make-over and Monica Pollard, chairperson for the Caribbean Cultural Committee (CCC), is one such person. She contends that ...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || LAW AND POLITICS - THE POLITICAL WATERS ARE GETTIN... 0 By Lloyd Noel ’The point has been repeatedly stressed that it is worthless to offer prayers and sacrifices to God unless, at the same time, one defends the rights of the widow, the orphan, the stranger, the labourer - all those whom today we would call under-privileged.’ That statement came fro...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || LAUNCH OF CARNIVAL 2006 0 By Dexter Mitchell 25 years of Mas, 25 years of Pan, 25 years of Calypso will form the foundation for what will be a great year of Carnival celebrations. Those celebrations were launched gloriously on Saturday May 06th at the Tanteen Netball Court. A wonderful evening of Mas, Pan Calypso...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || CEMENT PRICES JUMP IN GRENADA 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: The construction industry in Grenada will be hit by an almost 30 percent increase in the price of cement as soon as the next shipment arrives. Last week it was reported that the price of a bag of cement from Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) will increase by just over four doll...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || CWC PRACTICE GROUNDS IN GRENADA ALMOST COMPLETE SA... 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: Ninety percent of the pitches in Grenada being prepared as practice grounds for World Cup 2007 are already complete, according to Sports Minister Roland Bhola. Bhola, who recently toured the facilities, expressed satisfaction with the pace of work. The National Stadium ...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || CHANDERPAUL'S QUICKFIRE 93 SPURS WINDIES WIN 0 AGGRESSIVE BATTING set things in motion and disciplined bowling carried West Indies to a comfortable 82-run victory over Zimbabwe in the fourth One-day International yesterday. West Indies restricted Zimbabwe, in pursuit of a challenging victory target of 334, to 251 for seven from their allocat...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || NEW CARIBBEAN AWARDS LAUNCHED 0 A new Caribbean-based initiative, the Anthony N Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence, was launched in Jamaica on Friday with a promise to recognise significant Caribbean achievement and to encourage and support the pursuit of excellence by Caribbean people, according to the programme director, Trin...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || KPMG PARTNER SAYS CARIBBEAN CARRIERS CRUCIAL 0 HAMILTON, Bermuda (May 6, 2006) – KPMG says that the national carriers of the Caribbean region, such as Air Jamaica, are crucial to the development of the travel and tourism industry and that they ought to seek greater control of airline services to and from the region. Simon Townend, a partner w...Read More >>>   5/8/2006 || MADE IN HIS IMAGE 0 By Lyndon St Cyr. It would be a tragedy if my children grew up knowing only that their dad was a good father, businessman, teacher, or husband. It would be remiss of me to portray a perfectionist attitude when, after all, they would find that it is not so in real life. My children should kn...Read More >>>   5/7/2006 || COURT-RELATED MATTERS 0 By Davis Joseph *Restraining order delivered against Ex-boyfriend* A young man from the village of Mt Fan, in the parish of St Andrew, had a restraining order issued against him at the Grenville Magistrate’s Court last Friday. He is now ordered to stay over two hundred yards away from the pl...Read More >>>   5/6/2006 || VEHICLE TIPS OVER BRIDGE INTO RIVER AT ST.CLOUDS 0 By Team Grenada ST.CLOUDS, St.Andrew’s (May 6, 2006): Around 5:oo am this morning, a four door Honda vehicle, driven by Rondell, also known as ‘Mafway’, went off the St.Cloud’s bridge and ended up ‘bottoms up’ in the river. Rondell sustained minor cuts and bruises but apparently was not serio...Read More >>>   5/6/2006 || NO SIGN OF IMPENDING TSUNAMI IN GRENADA 0 THE SEISMIC Research Unit of the University of the West Indies (UWI) says there are no signs of an impending eruption of the underwater volcano in Grenada. The unit said it had been receiving "several enquiries regarding a supposedly impending earthquake and subsequent tsunami to affect Trinidad"...Read More >>>   5/5/2006 || NADMA HOSTS BASIC EMERGENCY TELECOMMUNICATION TRAI... 0 By Wallace J.A FORT FREDERICK, Richmond Hill, St. George’s (May 5, 2006): Today, officials of the National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) held a workshop at its Richmond Hill headquarters for members of the seventeen districts, making up the tri-island state, with special responsibility for...Read More >>>   5/5/2006 || CARNIVAL LAUNCH THIS WEEKEND AT TANTEEN 0 The Grenada Carnival Committee launches the 2006 Carnival season this Saturday at the Tanteen Netball Court. The Launche starts promptly at 5 p.m. and ends at 9 p.m. Among the features of the evening’s program will be appearances by traditional mas bands, sketches and prototypes from fancy mas b...Read More >>>   5/5/2006 || MITCHELL SUPPORTS LARA 0 Grenada Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has supported Brian Lara's appointment as the new West Indies captain. "I wish Brian all the success that he can have," Mitchell, chairman of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Subcommittee on Cricket, told CMC Sports. "I think it's a tremendous challe...Read More >>>   5/5/2006 || RAIN THREATENS GUYANA LEG OF WI-ZIMBABWE ODIS 0 GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) - The West Indies' two one-day matches against Zimbabwe this weekend may be called off because of heavy rain. West Indies officials said yesterday that the forecast for the third and fourth of seven matches was for more wet weather. "It looks very bad and we are doing a...Read More >>>   5/5/2006 || SCALPING TO BE OUTLAWED AT WORLD CUP MATCHES 0 Organisers of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 are seeking to make the scalping of tickets for the event an offence. Speaking at a recent press briefing at the offices of Jamaica Cricket 2007, CWC 2007's corporate communication director Marva Roach said the likely penalty for such an offence would ...Read More >>>     5/5/2006 || SPICE YOUTH PROMOTION DONATES BOOKS 0 Spice Youth Promotion has distributed hundreds of books to young people and students in the St. Andrew area. This project "Read for Life" is a joint project between Spice Youth Promotion and Boaters for Books Inc in Florida. Spice Youth Promotion has been continuously providing books for children...Read More >>>