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4/5/2007 || S&P DOWNGRADES GRENADA 0 Standard & Poor's on Tuesday lowered its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Grenada to'CCC+' from 'B-', citing concerns about priorities linked to debt repayment. The global rating agency said there were signs of increasing fiscal pressures on Grenada and a deteriora...Read More >>>   4/4/2007 || PRESS RELEASE - ROAD CLOSURE / PUBLIC HOLIDAY 2 CATEGORY:NEWS RELEASE -------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Wednesdat April 04,2007 by Press Secretary (Office of the Prime Minister) The Government of Grenada wishes to announce that Tuesday April 10th 2007 has been declared a Public Holiday. The holiday has been declared in recogn...Read More >>>   4/4/2007 || MISS GRENADA WORLD TITLE GOES TO GERMAN-BORN GRENA... 6 CATEGORY:COMPETITION(BEAUTY CONTEST) ------------------------------------------ INSIDE GRENADA Wednesday April 04,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: Twenty-one year old Vivian Charlott Burkhardt was crowned Miss Grenada World at a beauty pageant held at the Grenada Boys’ Secondary School (GBS...Read More >>>   4/4/2007 || AIRPORTS AUTHORITY EXPRESSES READINESS 0 CATEGORY:CONSTRUCTION ------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Wednesday April 04,2007 GRENADA: State of the Art facilities are in the making at the Point Salines International Airport as Grenada prepares to cater for the hosting of Super Eight Matches in the Cricket World Cup 2007. Th...Read More >>>   4/4/2007 || MITCHELL CALLS FOR PRIVATE SECTOR SUPPORT FOR CWC;... 0 Grenada's Prime Minister Keith Mitchell has called on the private sector to support the island in hosting the World Cup matches. Mitchell, speaking on a nationally televised discussion programme at the cricket stadium, said Grenada needed to show the world that the country deserved its quota of m...Read More >>>   4/4/2007 || FANS DISAPPOINTED AS SHORT-STAFFED WEST INDIES TEA... 3 It was a disappointing moment for West Indies fans in Grenada, as well as officials from the CWC Local Organizing Committee on Monday when only five members of the squad touched down at the Point Saline International Airport in on a Caribbean Airlines flight. Marlon Samuels, Devon Smith, Jerome T...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || ONLY A HANDFUL OF WEST INDIAN CRICKETERS SHOW UP A... 1 CATEGORY:SPORTS(CRICKET) ---------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Tuesday April 03,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: Many Grenadian nationals as well as LOC (Local Organizing Committee) officials were somewhat disappointed yesterday when only a handful of players from the West Indies cricke...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || CONFERENCE MAN SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS IN PRISON FOR... 7 CATEGORY:CRIMINAL MATTERS ---------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Tuesday April 03,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: Twenty-seven year old Nigel Sookram of Conference, St. Andrew’s, was yesterday sentenced to spend the next 18 years in prison for the murder of Joseph John, who was an emplo...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || PEOPLE'S CHOICE WINS MISS GRENADA WORLD 3 Vivian Burkhardt, a life science student at St. George’s University and winner of the People’s Choice award, won the title of Miss Grenada World on Saturday, March 31. The announcement was made after a magnificent show of pageantry and entertainment of International standard before a packed aud...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || SOME WINDIES PLAYERS OFF TO GRENADA 0 West Indies players headed in various directions yesterday following their defeats in the first three matches of the Super 8 round before reassembling in Grenada on Friday to resume their World Cup campaign a week today (April 10). The Jamaicans, Chris Gayle, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor and D...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || SOUTH AFRICAN SECURITY SPECIALISTS HEADED FOR GREN... 0 When a contingent of security personnel from South Africa arrives in Grenada on Easter Sunday, 8 April, they will add to the ranks of extra regional security specialists who are in the Caribbean for the Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007. The 77 South Africans, whose assistance to the Caribbean was se...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || WINDIES WORLD CUP DISASTERS DEAL A BLOW TO FRAGIL... 0 It didn't look as though Brian Lara had lost a cricket match. It was as if he had lost much more. The West Indies, that most artificial of geographical groupings based loosely on former British colonies, had just lost their third World Cup match in a row, breaking the hearts of a region that is u...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || GRENADA AMONG CARIBBEAN ISLANDS LINKED TO COCAINE ... 0 A drugs baron has been found guilty of running an international cocaine smuggling empire with links through the Caribbean. Grenada, Guadeloupe and other islands were used as staging posts Brian Wright, 60, who lived in Chelsea, west London, before fleeing the country, masterminded multi-mill...Read More >>>   4/3/2007 || TOUCHING BASE PROGRAMME AT THE NATIONAL STADIUM 2 CATEGORY:SPECIAL EVENT -------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Tuesday April 03,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: The special ‘Touching Base’ programme, which was scheduled to take place at the Grenada National Stadium last week Wednesday, has been re-scheduled for today (Tuesday April 03). ...Read More >>>   4/2/2007 || MAN FROM MARIAN TO SERVE EIGHTEEN YEARS IN PRISON ... 1 CATEGORY:CRIMINAL MATTERS ------------------------------ INSIDE GRENADA Monday April 02,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: Royston Stafford, a thirty-seven year old man from Marian, St. George’s, was sentenced to serve eighteen years at the Richmond Hill Prison for the murder of Morne Jaloux re...Read More >>>   4/2/2007 || ALL IS NOT LOST FOR WEST INDIES, SAYS LARA 0 West Indies skipper Brian Lara has said he remains optimistic of making it to the World Cup semi-finals despite his team's third successive defeat in the Super Eights. The hosts have just two points from four games following their crushing 113-run defeat against Sri Lanka here on Sunday. They ha...Read More >>>   4/2/2007 || WEST INDIES CRICKET TEAM ARRIVES IN GRENADA TODAY CATEGORY:SPORTS (CRICKET) ------------------------------ INSIDE GRENADA Monday April 02,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: The West Indies cricket team is scheduled to arrive in the Spice Island sometime today. The team will be flying in from Guyana where they played and loss to Sri Lanka (ye...Read More >>>   3/31/2007 || MINISTRY OF SPORTS EMBARKS ON SPORTS MOTORCADE TOD... 1 CATEGORY:SPECIAL EVENT -------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Saturday March 31,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: The Ministry of Sports has organized a big Sports Motorcade today in an attempt to draw public attention to the Super Eight games of the Cricket World Cup (CWC), which will be c...Read More >>>   3/31/2007 || MISS WORLD GRENADA TO BE CROWNED TODAY CATEGORY:COMPETITION ------------------------ INSIDE GRENADA Saturday March 31,2007 by Wallace J.A GRENADA: Eighteen beautiful young ladies will be vying for the Miss Grenada World title at the GBSS Auditorium this evening (March 31, 2007). The show is expected to commence at 7:00pm. ...Read More >>>   3/30/2007 || NADMA GETS NEW STATE OF THE ART EQUIPMENT FOR EARL... 0 CATEGORY:DISASTER PREPAREDNESS ----------------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Friday March 30,2007 by Rawle Titus ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada: New state of the art equipment for early detection of natural disasters is now in the hands of the National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA). The...Read More >>>   3/30/2007 || LAUNCH OF ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF GRENADA SDA COMPRE... 0 CATEGORY:SPECIAL EVENT --------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Friday March 30,2007 GRENADA: The Steering Committee of past students of the Grenada SDA Comprehensive School regret to inform you that the launch of the Alumni Association scheduled for Sunday April 1st, is postponed to a n...Read More >>>   3/30/2007 || GRENADA READY FOR SUCCESSFUL SUPER EIGHT TOURNAMEN... In common with the other host countries, Grenada is doing its part to ensure that it stages successful Super Eight games in the ICC Cricket World Cup tournament. Caribbean Net News carried out a survey on the readiness of some of the key aspects of the country's Cricket World Cup preparation. ...Read More >>>   3/29/2007 || ST. LUCIA EXPERIENCE EFFECTS OF EARTHQUAKE 0 CATEGORY:DISASTER -------------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Thursday, March 29,2007 by Rawle Titus The National Disaster Management Agency, (Nadma) would like to inform the nation of the occurrence of an earthquake about 80 KM South East of St. Lucia on Thursday March 29th at 1.25 am...Read More >>>   3/28/2007 || COLLEGE STUDENTS VISIT NADMA 0 CATEGORY:DISASTER AWARENESS -------------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Wednesday March 28,2007 by Rawle Titus First year students of the T.A. Marryshow Community College are claiming new found awareness of Disaster Management after receiving a baptism in the field. They have compl...Read More >>>   3/28/2007 || TOUCHING BASE PROGRAMME POSTPONED 0 CATEGORY:GOVERNMENT ------------------------ INSIDE GRENADA Wednesday March 28,2007 GRENADA: The special Touching Base programme scheduled to take place at the Grenada National Stadium today has been postponed until a later date. The programme, which would have been hosted by the Prime ...Read More >>>   3/28/2007 || GRENADIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE SHIPMENT OF INFESTED P... The authorities in Grenada on Tuesday seized a shipment of pineapples bound for the sister isle of Carriacou as part of the ban on the importation of the fruit from two CARICOM member states. Grenada has banned the importation of pineapples from Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. The ban was impo...Read More >>>   3/28/2007 || HAYDEN HAMMERS WEST INDIES BEFORE RAIN TRUMPS AUST... 0 Matthew Hayden's commanding innings of 158 left world champions Australia in a strong position against hosts West Indies before rain forced the opening Super Eight match of this World Cup into a second day. Hayden's record-breaking display was the centrepiece of Australia's 322 for six after they...Read More >>>   3/27/2007 || CRICKET WORLD CUP SUPER EIGHTS FIXTURES 0 The following are fixtures for the Super Eight round of CWC matches: Match ---------------------- Date ---------Venue Australia v West Indies-----March 27-------Antigua South Africa v Sri Lanka----March 28-------Guyana West Indies v New Zealand---March 29-------Antigua England ...Read More >>>   3/27/2007 || LAW AND POLITICS - THE JUDICIARY - CORRUPTION - AN... 0 CATEGORY:COMMENTARY ----------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Tuesday March 27,2007 by Lloyd Noel (Attorney-at-law) If we are ever going to achieve Justice and peace - in the new Caribbean that is daily unfolding before our very eyes up and down the Region - we have to take up the challenge ...Read More >>>     3/26/2007 || TOUCHING BASE LIVE FROM NATIONAL STADIUM 0 CATEGORY:SPECIAL EVENT ------------------------- INSIDE GRENADA Monday March 26,2007 by Wallace J.A ST.GEORGE’S: Prime Minister of Grenada, Dr. the Rt. Hon. Keith Mitchell will on Wednesday of this week (March 28,2007), host a special ‘Touching Base’ session, live from the National Stadiu...Read More >>>