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7/17/2006 || WILDMAN UNDER FIRE 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada: President of the Grenada Bar Association, Ruggles Ferguson, has launched a scathing attack on Legal Advisor to the Government Hugh Wildman. “The case of the three soldiers in the Grenada 17 being used to prevent his appointm...Read More >>>   7/17/2006 || BRITAIN'S SECRET SERVICE WOOING MORE WOMEN, MINORI... 0 LONDON, England (AP) - Britain's domestic secret service agency - MI5 - will begin a poster campaign today aimed at recruiting more women and ethnic minorities to join the service. The secretive organisation has been trying to beef up the number of minority surveillance officers in its ranks to t...Read More >>>   7/17/2006 || STANFORD 20/20 ATTRACTS A CROWD 0 The Stanford 20/20 Cricket tournament has drawn in eighteen teams from nine countries and is also attracting attention throughout the international cricketing fraternity. The tournament is underway in Antigua, sponsored by the Antigua-based American billionaire Allen Stanford. Top prize for th...Read More >>>   7/16/2006 || GRENADA MOVES TO INCREASE BANANA SALES 0 CATEGORY: AGRICULTURE -------------------------- By Team Grenada GRENVILLE, St. Andrew’s: Grenada is working diligently to increase its shipment of bananas to the twin-island republic of Trinidad and Tobago. The island’s banana industry is rebounding after being almost completely destroyed by...Read More >>>   7/15/2006 || SCOTLAND & HOOD DISAPPOINTED… 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada: Lawyers representing the three sentenced to lengthy jail terms – Andy Mitchell, Cosmos Richardson and Vincent Joseph for their involvement in the death of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, his cabinet colleagues and othe...Read More >>>   7/15/2006 || PRIVY COUNCIL REJECT APPEAL 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Privy Council has rejected the petition filed for the release of Cosmos Richardson, Andy Mitchell and Vincent Joseph – three of the 17sentenced to life imprisonment for the brutal execution of former Prime Minister Maurice ...Read More >>>   7/14/2006 || GRENADA WANTS TO INCREASE BANANA SALES TO T&T 0 Grenada is attempting to increase its shipment of bananas to Trinidad and Tobago as the island's banana industry rebounds from two devastating hurricanes. Roderick St. Clair of the Marketing and National Importing Board says there is a growing demand for Grenada's bananas on the Trinidad market....Read More >>>   7/14/2006 || STANFORD 20/20: ST. LUCIA WIN; GRENADA IN ACTION T... 0 ST. LUCIA survived a few jitters to cruise to a seven-wicket victory in their Stanford Twenty20 Cup match against the British Virgin Islands on Wednesday night at the Stanford Cricket Ground. Set a modest 106 to win from their allocation of 20 overs, the St. Lucians reached their target with 33 ...Read More >>>   7/14/2006 || BIG PROFITS FOR CARIBBEAN HOTELS 0 DESPITE HIGH operating costs, the profitability of Caribbean hotels continues to be high, according to a recently released study. The study, which was conducted by PKF Consulting, and based on financial statements from 35 hotels across the region, including properties in Antigua, Aruba, Bahamas, ...Read More >>>   7/14/2006 || ORGANISERS, OPPONENTS OF CANCELLED REGGAE CONCERT ... 0 NEW YORK (AP) - Organisers and opponents of a reggae concert cancelled because it was to feature performers with a history of anti-gay lyrics found common ground yesterday, with both sides agreeing they wanted to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean-American community. At a Manhattan news...Read More >>>   7/13/2006 || MEDIA STANDARDS LACKING 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE'S, Grenada: The local media will have to raise its standard and become more professional, if it is to win the respect and admiration of a wider section of the population and further a field. This was one of the revelations coming out o...Read More >>>   7/13/2006 || HEALTH CARE SERVICES – A GROWING NEED 0 CATEGORY:EDUCATION --------------------- By Stephanie Gordon We would focus on health care services - a growing need in today’s society. The need for quality health care in Grenada has become a major concern. Users of our health care facilities have ever so often, been subjected to the lack...Read More >>>   7/13/2006 || IMF TEAM TO TOUR GRENADA, OTHER EASTERN CARIBBEAN ... 0 ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) -- Regional integration and an erosion of trade preferences for bananas and sugar will be the focus of an International Monetary Fund team that will tour eastern Caribbean nations, according to a statement from Grenada. The IMF team, headed by Caribbean Division Chief Dav...Read More >>>   7/13/2006 || GAYS PROTEST JAMAICAN REGGAE STAR CONCERT IN DENMA... 0 COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AFP): Gay activists in Denmark staged a demonstration on Tuesday ahead of a concert by Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton, who regularly causes controversy with gay-bashing lyrics. Some 250 protesters, waving signs urging "zero tolerance for homophobia" and and an end to "murde...Read More >>>   7/13/2006 || STANFORD FOR WI BOARD 0 BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - Allen Stanford, the Texas-born Antiguan billionaire businessman and developer who is investing US$28 million in cricket in the region, is set to become one of four non-member directors of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) at a special meeting here today. A source c...Read More >>>   7/12/2006 || LAW AND POLITICS - THE CSME, JUDICIARY, RECONCILIA... 0 CATEGORY-COMMENTARY ------------------------- By Lloyd Noel “In my very sincerely considered opinion, I feel that those at Richmond Hill have more than paid their requisite price to Society - for the offences of which they were convicted; even though I firmly believe that the trial of th...Read More >>>   7/12/2006 || US BLOCKADE COST CUBA US$80,000 0 CATEGORY: ECONOMIC NEWS --------------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada: The United States Blockade of the Republic of Cuba is said to have cost the Spanish-speaking Republic some US$80, 000 million, 47 years after the Blockade was imposed in 1...Read More >>>   7/12/2006 || WEST INDIES CRICKET GETS CREDIT CARD HELP 0 FIRSTCARIBBEAN International Bank (FCIB) has partnered with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and Visa International to launch the WICB Visa credit card. This was announced at the card's official launch in Kingston, Jamaica last Friday. The credit card, designed exclusively for West Indies...Read More >>>   7/12/2006 || WINDIES ORGANISERS ADMIT WOES, ASSURE ICC ON WORLD... 0 Admitting Grenada and Guyana have some catch up work to do before the venues get in shape for next year's World Cup, Chairman of the Cricket World Cup 2007 Kenneth Gordon assured ICC that the organisers are leaving no stone unturned to meet the deadlines. Speaking at the ICC Cricket Business Foru...Read More >>>   7/12/2006 || G/DA MATCH STRIDES WITH B/DOS 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS -------------------- By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE's, Grenada: The honours were just about even after a two-match 20-20 series between regional cricket powerhouse Barbados and Grenada in Barbados last weekend. After romping to a comfortable vict...Read More >>>   7/11/2006 || FAO’S ASSISTANCE ENDS 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St. George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada: The Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Emergency Relief Programme to Grenada following the devastation caused by Hurricane Ivan, has ended after almost two years. The US$2.5million Programme, which began in Novembe...Read More >>>   7/11/2006 || THE PETRO CARIBE AGREEMENT 0 By Trevor Thwaites (St.George's correspondent) ST.GEORGE'S, Grenada: The Petro Caribe Agreement has been established to help in the transformation of Latin America and Caribbean. It has been conceived as an integral process intended to promote the eradication of social inequalities and to fos...Read More >>>   7/11/2006 || GRENADA PRAISED FOR DELIVERY OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALT... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: Grenada is doing well in its ability to deliver sexual and reproductive health services, according to Dr Tirbani Jagdeo, the Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Family Planning Affiliation. The CFPA wrapped up its 33rd annual general meeting at the Grenada Grand Beach ...Read More >>>   7/11/2006 || WINDIES XI MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF US PROMOTIONAL SERI... 0 BROOKLYN, New York (CMC) - A star-studded West Indies XI made a clean sweep of their two-match series against the United States with contrasting wins over the weekend at the Floyd Bennett Cricket Field. While they snatched a narrow five-run win in the first game on Saturday, they powered their wa...Read More >>>   7/11/2006 || STANFORD 20/20 BEGINS 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC) - Black bats, coloured uniforms, black helmets, orange balls, and matches at night. This all adds up to the inaugural Stanford Twenty20 Cup which gets going today at the Stanford Cricket Ground located adjacent to the VC Bird International Airport and about five miles outs...Read More >>>   7/10/2006 || MADE IN HIS IMAGE! 0 CATEGORY: RELIGION ----------------------- By L. St. Cyr ‘If you diligently heed the voice of the Lord your God and do what is right in HIS sight, give ear to HIS commands and keep all HIS statutes, I will put none of these diseases on you which I have brought on the Egyptians. For I am the L...Read More >>>   7/10/2006 || DISAPPOINTMENT OVER REJECTED APPEAL 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - Lawyers for three men convicted of killings in a 1983 coup that triggered a US invasion expressed disappointment Friday that a British appeals court refused to throw out their sentences and release them from prison. The London-based Privy Council's ruling Thursday forc...Read More >>>   7/10/2006 || CARIBBEAN LEADERS EASE 2007 CRICKET WORLD CUP INTE... 0 BASSETERRE, St Kitts, (AFP): Spectators visiting the Caribbean next year for the Cricket World Cup will be able to move between host islands without stopping for passport processing, officials said last week. Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders meeting in St KItts agreed Thursday to the plan, w...Read More >>>   7/10/2006 || LEGAL SETBACK FOR GRENADA 17 0 Britain's Privy Council has ruled that the Grenada 17 should serve out their full prison terms. The 17 people were convicted of the 1983 murder of Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and some of his supporters. The Privy Council upheld a Grenada government petition stating that the killing...Read More >>>     7/8/2006 || RAINBOW CITY FESTIVAL 2K6 OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED 0 CATEGORY: CARNIVAL ---------------------- By Team Grenada GRENVILLE, St. Andrew’s: On Saturday of last week (July 1, 2006), over 1,500 persons turned out at the Grenville Car Park to witness the official launch of Rainbow City Festival, 2K6. This function is an annual one organized by the S...Read More >>>