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10/9/2006 || NNP HEADQUARTERS BROKEN INTO 0 CATEGORY:POLITICS ------------------------- Press Release from the New National Party The New National Party regrets to inform the general public that its headquarters on Lucas Street has been broken into by an intruder. Hours after the Government released a statement regarding the defa...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || DIGICEL FIRST TO OFFER INNOVATIVE NEW TOP UP SERVI... 0 Digicel, the fastest growing telecommunications operator in the Caribbean, today announced the availability of Credit Me / Credit U in the Eastern Caribbean markets of St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, and Dominica. Credit U offers our customers a convenient method of transferring...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || GRENADA’S OPPOSITION CHALLENGES FINANCE MINISTER O... 0 ST GEORGE’S, Grenada: An ongoing battle between Grenada’s Finance Minister, Anthony Boatswain, and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over cement supplies continued this week. Boatswain is accused by the NDC of wrongdoing in relation to the local cement company Dream Builders Inter...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || GAYLE STARS AS WINDIES START DEFENSE OF ICC CHAMPI... 0 West Indies began their defence of the ICC Champions Trophy in emphatic style, when they crushed Zimbabwe by nine wickets in the low-scoring second qualifying match yesterday at the Sardar Patel (Gujarat) Stadium. Set a measly 86 to win from 50 overs, West Indies achieved their target with 36.4 ...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || CARICOM NATIONALS TO GET VISAS FOR CWC 0 CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) nationals will get new high-tech visas to be used for travel during the Cricket World Cup next year. Global technology company, 3M, is supplying the visas. It announced on Friday that it won the contract for the visa issuance system which it will supply using th...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || LIAT AND CARIBBEAN STAR MULL MERGER 0 Negotiations are expected to start this week on a possible merger between two of the Caribbean airline industry's arch rivals. The regional government-owned airline LIAT (Leeward Islands Air Transports 1974 Ltd) and Caribbean Star Airlines, owned by Antigua-based American investor Allen Standford...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || PRESS RELEASE FROM THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY 0 The New National Party regrets to inform the general public that its headquarters on Lucas Street has been broken into by an intruder. Hours after the Government released a statement regarding the defacing of its billboard at the Sugar Mill roundabout last week, the NNP OFFICE was then the venu...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || DOCUMENTARY ON GRENADA TO PREMIERE IN VANCOUVER 0 You are all invited to the premiere of my first feature Grenada: The Maroon Spirit, Sunday, October 29, 2:00 p.m. at the Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC. This is a 50 minute documentary, filmed on the island of Grenada in the Eastern Caribbean, in November 2004, two months a...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || PGA SELECTS DIGICEL AS TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDER... 0 The International Federation of PGA Tours today announced that Digicel, the Caribbean’s leading mobile telecommunications operator, has been selected as the preferred wireless communications provider for the prestigious World Golf Championships – Barbados World Cup, being held at the Sandy Lane Coun...Read More >>>   10/9/2006 || CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES WOULD BE HARD-HIT BY AMENDMENT... 0 CATEGORY:TOURISM --------------------- By Wallace J.A (Inside Grenada correspondent) ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada - A move by the United States Congress to amend the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) which mandates American nationals returning home by air from the Caribbean to be in poss...Read More >>>   10/8/2006 || POLITICAL FALLOUT OVER DEFACED BILLBOARD 0 CATEGORY:POLITICS ------------------------- By Wallace J.A (Inside Grenada correspondent) ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – The ruling New National Party (NNP) of Prime Minister Dr. Keith Mitchell is visibly upset over the defacement of one of its billboards in the south of the island and is pointing an...Read More >>>   10/8/2006 || DISPLACED GCNA WORKERS GET FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FR... 0 CATEGORY:GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE ------------------------------------ By Wallace J.A (Inside Grenada correspondent) GRENADA – Workers of the Grenada Cooperative Nutmeg Association (GCNA), who were employed with the association before the year 1999 but lost their jobs as a result of the passag...Read More >>>   10/7/2006 || CRICKET CLASSIC TO BE PLAYED AT PROGRESS PARK 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (CRICKET) --------------------------------- By Wallace J.A.(Inside Grenada correspondent) ST.ANDREW’S, Grenada (Saturday October 07,2006) – The idyllic Progress Park, located in the rural village of Paradise, St.Andrew’s, is expected to be buzzing with excitement tomorrow (S...Read More >>>   10/7/2006 || GNBA CHAMPIONSHIP INTO SEMI-FINAL STAGE 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS (BASKETBALL) ------------------------------------- By Wallace J.A (Inside Grenada correspondent) GRENADA (Saturday 07, 2006) – The GNBA (Grenada National Basketball Association) championship is currently into its semi-final stage. The top four teams in the First Division wil...Read More >>>   10/7/2006 || NNP PERSPECTIVE - EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE 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 >>>   10/6/2006 || SAASS DEFEATS GSS IN OPENING GAME OF INTER-SEC FOO... 0 CATEGORY:SPORTS ------------------- By Wallace J.A. (Inside Grenada correspondent) GRENVILLE, St.Andrew’s (October 06, 2006) – The staff and students of the St. Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School (SAASS) were in a celebratory mood this afternoon after their football team defeated the boy...Read More >>>   10/6/2006 || DIGICEL CARIBBEAN CUP SECOND ROUND GROUPS ANNOUNCE... 0 Port of Spain , Trinidad : The groups and venues for the final qualifying round of the Digicel Caribbean Cup were announced today by the Caribbean Football Union. The twelve teams that progressed from the first qualifying round have now been spilt into three groups of four teams with Group G based i...Read More >>>   10/6/2006 || GRENADA’S 20/20 PLAYERS TO OPEN CLASSIC CRICKET DA... 0 There will be an added bonus for cricket fans on Sunday 8 October at Progress Park when members of the highly successful Grenada Stanford 20/20 Cricket squad play an exhibition match to lead up to the Classic action in the afternoon. Andre Fletcher, Nelon Pascal, Clevroy Antoine, Devon Smith, Ron...Read More >>>   10/6/2006 || GRENADA GOVERNMENT HANDS OUT CHEQUES TO DISPLACED ... 0 ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: The Grenada Ministry of Agriculture on Wednesday handed out 100 cheques to displaced Grenada Cooperative Nutmeg Association (GCNA) workers from the parishes of St Patrick’s, St Mark’s and St John’s. These monies were paid to workers who were employed by the company prior to ...Read More >>>   10/6/2006 || PRESS STATEMENT FROM THE NEW NATIONAL PARTY 0 The New National Party brings to the attention of the general public the fact that the billboard erected at the Sugar Mill Round -About was defaced with YELLOW paint after the public meeting of the National Democratic Congress on Sunday 2nd October 2006. This billboard was erected several weeks a...Read More >>>   10/6/2006 || NADMA WELCOMES THE APPOINTMENT OF A DISASTER PREPA... 0 CATEGORY:DISASTER PREPAREDNESS --------------------------------- By Rawle Titus (NaDMA communications officer) ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada (October 05, 2006) - The National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) has welcomed the appointment of a Disaster Preparedness Coordinator to the Grenada Red Cro...Read More >>>   10/5/2006 || GRENADIAN TEACHERS CELEBRATE WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY 0 CATEGORY:CELEBRATION ----------------------------- By Wallace J.A.(Inside Grenada correspondent) GRENADA (October 5, 2006) – Many teachers throughout the tri-island state turned out to work today wearing their union jerseys , not as a means of protest, but as a way of drawing attention to t...Read More >>>   10/5/2006 || SMALL CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES NEED A BIGGER VOICE IN I... 0 Dominica's Foreign Affairs Minister, Charles Savarin, has said small Caribbean countries must have more than a symbolic presence in international organisations. In an address to a sub regional forum on international trade matters Wednesday Mr. Savarin said the region’s place must be enshrined in...Read More >>>   10/5/2006 || SAME OLD WORRIES FOR LARA AND WEST INDIES 0 ST JOHN'S, Antigua (AFP): When the West Indies won the 2004 Champions Trophy in the gloom of a London autumn, skipper Brian Lara hoped it would be the dawn of a new era for the fallen kings of one-day cricket. But two years on and the Caribbean calypso still resembles more of a slow waltz. Cru...Read More >>>   10/5/2006 || LAW AND POLITICS - WHAT CAN WE REALLY EXPECT? 0 CATEGORY:COMMENTARY --------------------------- By Mr. Lloyd Noel (local attorney-at-law) At the pace everything seems to be moving now-a-days - some real and some imaginary, and in the fast and busy World across the Globe, as well as in our relatively quiet neck of the woods in the CSM...Read More >>>   10/4/2006 || CABLE & WIRELESS MAKES DONATION TO SAASS 0 CATEGORY:DONATION ----------------------- By Wallace J.A (Inside Grenada correspondent) TELESCOPE, St. Andrew’s (October 04, 2006) – Today, Mr. Ollivierre and an entourage from Cable & Wireless paid a visit to the St.Andrew’s Anglican Secondary School (SAASS) to make a presentation of some ...Read More >>>   10/4/2006 || GRENADIAN SCIENTISTS JULES AND MARCELLE SHINE 0 CATEGORY:COMMENTARY ------------------------ By Dr. Francis Alexis (Local attorney-at-law and political leader of the PLM - People's Labour Movement). ST.GEORGE’S, Grenada – Locally based Grenadian plant scientists, Mr. Dean Jules and Dr. Guido Marcelle teamed up with UK-based Englishman ...Read More >>>   10/4/2006 || ST. JOSEPH CONVENT GETS COMPUTERS FROM DIGICEL 0 Digicel, the fastest growing mobile telecommunications company in the Caribbean and Bermuda has made yet another timely contribution in the field of information technology to students of this nation. In a presentation made of Monday 2nd October, the students of the St. Joseph Convent in St. Geo...Read More >>>   10/4/2006 || ACTION PACKED DIGICEL CARIBBEAN CUP FIRST ROUND CO... 0 The first qualifying round of matches of the Digicel Caribbean Cup 2006/7 was completed on Sunday October 1st with Dominican Republic clinching the final qualifying spot after victory over hosts USVI in Group C. After 33 matches and 132 goals, 12 teams have now qualified for the second and final qua...Read More >>>     10/4/2006 || ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HEALTH OF REGION IN JEOPARDY -... 0 Peter J Odle, president of the Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA) expressed alarm and concern for the consequences of the arbitrary omission of air travel in the extension of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which only applies to travel by land and sea. The CHA head warned that the ...Read More >>>