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6/6/2006 || WINDIES CHASE 392 AFTER INDIAN FIGHTBACK 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AFP): A day of high drama on Monday ended with West Indies chasing 392 for victory in the opening Test against India at the Antigua Recreation Ground. The controversial dismissal of Mahendra Dhoni however, took the gloss off a fine maiden Test double-hundred from opening batsm...Read More >>>   6/6/2006 || REGIONAL COLLOBORATION OF WORLD CUP SECURITY 0 CATEGORY: REGIONAL SECURITY -------------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) The Regional Security System (RSS) will be collaborating with host countries to provide maximum security for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007. With several of the small countries like Gre...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || ST.ANDREW’S CARNIVAL 2K6 LAUNCHED 0 CATEGORY: CARNIVAL ---------------------- By Team Grenada ST.ANDREW’S CARNIVAL 2K6 LAUNCHED GRENVILLE, St. Andrew’s: On Sunday June 4, 2006 it was St. Andrew’s turn to officially launch its carnival for 2006. This impressive launch took place in the town of Grenville. Hundreds of pe...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || 3 PERSONS AWARDED AT 2006 ST. ANDREW’S CARNIVAL LA... 0 CATEGORY: CARNIVAL --------------------- By Team Grenada GRENVILLE, St.Andrew’s: The launch of St. Andrew’s Carnival, 2006 took place at the newly paved car park in Grenville on Sunday June 4, 2006. During the launch the organizing committee, headed by Peter Bain, awarded three persons from the...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || HURRICANE PREDICTIONS AFFECT HOTEL OCCUPANCY PROJE... 0 Regional hoteliers have expressed concern over the low occupancy projections for the summer, and say the figures appear to be related to last years' extremely active hurricane season and a similar prediction this year. Caribbean Hotel Association President, Berthia Parle, says the misconceptions...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || NEW YORKERS UPDATED ON CRICKET WORLD CUP 0 The International Committee on Cricket World Cup 2007 took its marketing campaign to New York City with a Town Hall meeting at the St. Mark’s Church, Brooklyn on Friday June 2. In attendance were representatives from Caribbean Consulates and Permanent Missions in New York, media representatives a...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || INDIA FIGHT BACK AGAINST WEST INDIES 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AFP): Opening batsman Wasim Jaffer ran amok on loose West Indies bowling to hit his second Test hundred and help India claw their way back into the opening Test on Sunday at the Antigua Recreation Ground. Jaffer was undefeated on a Test-best 113 to be the cornerstone on which...Read More >>>   6/5/2006 || SOCA WARRIORS LAND IN GERMANY FOR WORLD CUP DEBUT 0 BREMEN, Germany (AFP) - Trinidad and Tobago flew in here yesterday for their first ever appearance in the World Cup finals. The Caribbean squad, coached by Dutchamn Leo Beenhakker, completed their series of warm-ups with a 3-0 defeat to fellow finalists the Czech Republic in Prague on Saturday. ...Read More >>>   6/4/2006 || ANOTHER ACCIDENT ON GRENADA’S ROADS 0 CATEGORY: ACCIDENT ---------------------- By Team Grenada GRAND BRAS, St. Andrew’s: Around 8.30 this morning, a vehicular accident, involving a blue car and a jeep, took place close to the junction between Chapel Road and Salisbury Road. The owner of the jeep, a Grenville businessman, rammed...Read More >>>   6/4/2006 || BRIMP 2- 6 WEEKS BEHIND SCHEDULE 0 CATEGORY: CONSTRUCTION --------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's Correspondent) ST.GEORGE'S, Grenada:The Grenada government has welcomed the decision by the Eastern Caribbean Court of Appeal, which overturned an earlier decision by Justice Kenneth Benjamin, to give Businessman...Read More >>>   6/3/2006 || QUARRY ROAD RESIDENTS STILL WAITING ON HELP 0 CATEGORY: COMPLAINT ------------------------ By Davis Joseph (St.Andrew's correspondent) TELESCOPE, St.Andrew’s: Residents of Quarry Road, in the village of Telescope, are crying out for some work to be done on the road, which passes through the village. This road is presently in a very terri...Read More >>>   6/2/2006 || CAREER DAY FAIR HELD AT SAASS 0 CATEGORY: EDUCATION ----------------------- By Wallace J.A GRENVILLE, St.Andrew’s (June 2, 2006): Today, the Guidance and Counseling Officer attached to the St.Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School, Ms. Roxy-Ann Dick, along with the principal, Ms. Joylyn Lyle, and staff, staged what can only be ...Read More >>>   6/2/2006 || CREATIVE ARTS CORNER 0 CATEGORY: ART ------------------ Etson Gidharry is a student of the St. Andrew's Anglican Secondary School (SAASS). He resides at Salisbury Road, Grenville. Etson is an outstanding athlete and he loves to paint pictures of interesting things around him. He will be graduating from secondary sc...Read More >>>   6/2/2006 || OECS CONCERNED ABOUT GRENADA’S READINESS FOR CSM 0 Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said he expects the governments of the OECS to assist Grenada’s preparations to join the Caricom Single Market (CSM) by the 30 June deadline. There has been mounting speculation over the likelihood of Grenada achieving CSM readiness, after the country e...Read More >>>   6/2/2006 || WEST INDIES, SOUTH AFRICA TO MEET IN US$5M 20/20 M... 0 A TEXAN-born billionaire is financing a world record US$5 million Twenty20 international between West Indies and South Africa in Antigua this November, Cricket South Africa (CSA) said yesterday. "Everything has been agreed and we expect to sign the contracts next week," CSA commercial manager St...Read More >>>   6/2/2006 || WINDIES AND INDIA BEING TEST SERIES TODAY 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - West Indies and India begin the four-match Digicel Test series starting at the Antigua Recreation Ground (ARG) here today with both teams having much to prove based on their world rankings. Number three-ranked India should enter the first Test as favourites based on the...Read More >>>   6/1/2006 || GRENADA PARLIAMENT TO DISCUSS PETROL TAX LAW 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: A special sitting of Grenada’s parliament will be held on Friday to take the Petrol Tax Amendment Act through all its stages. The Act, which had its first reading at last week’s sitting, will according to section three now require importers of petrol to pay a flat tax of th...Read More >>>   6/1/2006 || MORE CARNIVAL ACTION 0 The magical carnival season of 2006 continued last weekend with the launch of Carnival by two Parish Committees. On Saturday May 27 the St. Patrick Carnival Committee launched its Carnival season with a fantastic evening of premier, quality Grenadian Culture. Parliamentary Representatives, Hon. A...Read More >>>   6/1/2006 || SLOVENIA HUMBLE T&T 3-1 IN WARM-UP 0 LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) - Milivoj Novakovic scored a hat-trick yesterday to lead Slovenia to a 3-1 victory over World Cup-bound Trinidad & Tobago in a warm-up match. Novakovic scored the first goal in the fourth minute, prodding a loose ball into the net from close range. He added a second 11 mi...Read More >>>   6/1/2006 || GRIEVING GRENADIAN FATHER OF CBS CAMERAMAN KILLED ... 8 Grenadian David Douglas has condemned the US-led war in Iraq, two days after his son, British-born CBS cameraman Paul Douglas was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad. "I think the Americans should get their butt out of there already, and let the people carry on with their lives" Douglas who's mournin...Read More >>>   6/1/2006 || BET NETWORKS PROMOTING CARIBBEAN TALENT 0 NEW YORK (May 31, 2006) – The Caribbean sometimes seems to have as many international jazz and music festivals as it has islands, but some believe that regional talent is often marginalized. In contrast, BET Networks says islanders have a sure slot on stage and on the BET and BET J channels when the...Read More >>>   5/31/2006 || CSME BENEFIT TO OECS DISPUTED 0 CASTRIES, St Lucia: Caribbean hotelier and graduate economist Allen Chastanet is standing by his statement that the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) offers nothing for the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS). He made the statement in his customary forthright manner at the a...Read More >>>   5/31/2006 || WE HAVE TO REGROUP, SAYS INDIA'S CAPTAIN 0 INDIA CAPTAIN Rahul Dravid and coach Greg Chappell say the team's 4-1 one-day series defeat to the West Indies could impact on the four-Test series starting on Friday. "We've got a little bit of work to do mentally, to regroup and get ourselves prepared for the test series," Chappell said after ...Read More >>>   5/31/2006 || BRIMP 2 BEGINS 0 CATEGORY: CONSTRUCTION -------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) ST. GEORGE, Grenada: Almost a month after signing the contract, work has commenced on the second phase of the Bridges and Road Improvement Project (BRIMP). Communications and Works Minister the Ho...Read More >>>   5/31/2006 || STANDARDS & YOU - BENEFITS OF STANDARDS & STANDARD... 0 CATEGORY: PUBLIC EDUCATION ------------------------------ By S. Gordon Standards and standardization are fundamental elements of society; it is the foundation stone on which industrial society is built. Standards govern the exchange of goods and services; it can be defined as documents stati...Read More >>>   5/30/2006 || RESIDENCE AT MT. PANDY TO BE RELOCATED… 0 CATEGORY: HOUSING PROBLEM ---------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) BELMONT, St. George’s: Agriculture Minister the Hon Gregory Bowen says that squatters occupying prime lands in the Mt Pandy area in Belmont South St George will be relocated to make room for ...Read More >>>   5/30/2006 || SQUATTING IS PROHIBITED BUT MORE SQUATTERS KEEP CO... 0 CATEGORY: HOUSING PROBLEMS --------------------------- By Davis Joseph (St.Andrew's correspondent) GRENVILLE, St. Andrew’s: Squatting is on the increase in the Moon Shadow Park district in Grenville, in spite of a ‘No Squatting’ sign which has been erected in the area by the relevant authorit...Read More >>>   5/30/2006 || CELL PHONE BAN BEING CONSIDERED IN GRENADA 0 The Grenada government says it is contemplating introducing legislation banning motorists from using their cellular phones while driving. Transport Minister, Dr. Clarice Modeste-Curwen, said while there were no statistics locally to show that the recent upsurge in vehicular accidents was due to dr...Read More >>>   5/30/2006 || GRENADA RATIFIES INTER-AMERICAN CONVENTION AGAINST... 0 WASHINGTON, USA: Grenada, which on Friday became the 18th member of the Organization of American States (OAS) to deposit instruments of ratification of the Inter-American Convention against Terrorism, accentuated its dedication to cooperating in the fight against terrorism in the hemisphere, amidst ...Read More >>>     5/30/2006 || MADE IN HIS IMAGE 0 CATEGORY: RELIGION ---------------------- By Lyndon St.Cyr In a world of pluralism one often wonders if there is just ONE right way or MANY right ways. Or maybe there is neither right nor wrong, it just depends on how you see it. In the Gospels Jesus makes an exclusive claim that I a...Read More >>>