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Chanderpaul out of CPL Pomersbach in
West Indies middle order batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul has been forced to withdraw from the first ever Caribbean Premier League (CPL) because of his contractual obligations with English county team Derbyshire. Organisers say Chanderpaul signed a contract with CPL, offering himself for selection but later realised that his commitment to Derbyshire provided for release only if it pertained to ...
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WICB president meets regional dignitaries
The president of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Dave Cameron has described a series of meetings he has been having with Caribbean prime ministers as "crucial" to the development of the sport in the region. Cameron's comments follow his latest round of meetings in which talks were held with St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves in Kingstown and Prime Minister of ...
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US Cuba to discuss renewal of direct mail service
The US and Cuba will discuss this week the possibility of re-establishing direct mail, suspended 50 years ago, a State Department spokesperson told EFE Monday. Talks of a "technical" nature will take place Tuesday and Wednesday in Washington among officials of the State Department, the US Postal Service and the Cuban government, said the spokesperson. "We think that re-establishing a direct ...
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US-Puerto Rico agents arrest 3 Dominicans with 688Ks cocaine
SAN JUAN.- Three Dominicans trying to smuggle 688 kilos of cocaine into Puerto Rico were arrested by authorities, U.S. Federal Attorney in San Juan, Rosa Emilia Rodriguez announced Tuesday, EFE reports. She said Ren Pea Almonte, Jose Antonio Toribio and Raul Rodriguez Pascual were intercepted Tuesday aboard a speedboat 195 miles south of Ponce, and the drug seized is valued at US$24 million. ...
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US senator seeks Congressional Gold Medal for Puerto Rico Borinqueneers
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - U.S. Senator Bob Casey is seeking to honour Puerto Ricans who served in the U.S. military's sole all-Hispanic unit. The Pennsylvania Democrat said Tuesday that he wants to award the Congressional Gold Medal to the 65th Infantry Regiment known as the "Borinqueneers." He said the unit endured widespread discrimination as it fought in World Wars I and II and ...
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Lawsuit filed in Puerto Rico slaying of US banker
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; The widow of a banking executive slain in Puerto Rico has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bank's CEO and other high-ranking ...
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Puerto Rico officials seize $24M worth of cocaine bound for US
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Authorities in Puerto Rico say they have seized $24 million worth of cocaine aboard a boat just south of the U.S. territory. U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodriguez said Tuesday that the more than 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) of cocaine was bound for the U.S. She said three suspects from the Dominican Republic were arrested on a boat detected by a U.S. Coast Guard about 100 ...
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Ladies in White Returning to Cuba Re-energized
When Berta Soler, leader of Cuba's dissident Ladies in White, returned to the island last month after her first-ever trip abroad, she felt ready to resume the grinding struggle against the communist government. Soler had received a hero's welcome in the United States and Europe. Large audiences had applauded her denunciations of the Castro system. And her group had secured new ...
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Dominican leader warns Haiti of “drastic” measures on poultry ban
Santo Domingo.- President Danilo Medina on Tuesday warned of possibly drastic measures to prevent Dominicans eggs and poultry's dependence on Haiti's market and ruled out shuttering the border as some sectors suggest, because "we don't have to go that far," calling the standoff trade dispute. He didn't specify what measures could be taken and announced a meeting ...
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Titan Poker Launches Satellites to Caribbean Poker Tour
For the first time, Titan Poker will send a delegation of poker players to enjoy a combined vacation and poker tournament experience at exotic Caribbean island ...
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READER SUBMITTED Caribbean Culture Celebrated At Mass At Saint Justin And Picnic
Archbishop Henry J. Mansell will celebrate a Mass, along with the Rev. Emmanuel Ihemedu, dedicated to the culture of the Caribbean on Sunday, June 23 at Saint Justin Church, 230 Blue Hills Avenue in Hartford, at 11 a.m. The Mass will open with a festive procession of colorful Caribbean flags. Liturgical dancers from Caribbean American Dance Company and steel pan drummers will participate in the ...
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US collegians to host Cuba in July
DES MOINES, Iowa -; The U.S. collegiate national baseball team will host its Cuban counterpart next month in a five-game international "friendship" ...
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Songa Mercur to Depart Cuba for Vietnam
Songa Mercur (mid-water semisub) is departing Cuba for Vietnam after failing to find oil, AFP reported on Tuesday. Drilling work in Cuba was suspended because of a problem-plagued exploration well, and the start of the hurricane season, reported the state-run Agencia de Informacion National (AIN). Songa Mercur was drilling in shallow waters in the central Cuban province of Ciego de Avila about ...
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Annexation to US Would Turn Puerto Rico Into a LatAm Ghetto
San Juan, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Puerto Rico's annexation to the United States would destroy its economy and turn it into a Latin American ghetto, assured Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla today. The Puerto Rican governor favored the development of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (ELA), in force since 1952, as an U.S. maneuver to remove Puerto Rico from the U.N. List of Non-Self-Governing ...
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Chinese premier meets Cubas first vice-president
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Tuesday met with Cuban First Vice-President Miguel Diaz-Canel and pledged to further boost cooperation between the two countries.During the meeting, Li hailed the traditional friendship between China and Cuba.He highlighted their mutual support on national sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity, and the paths of socialist development suitable to their ...
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Minnis slams govt on crime economy
Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis said yesterday the 2013/2014 budget fails to sufficiently address two key priorities: reducing crime and growing the economy. "The Bahamas is meandering, while taking on water and sailing in the heavy seas of crime, joblessness, bloated public finances, increased government borrowing and erratic, inflammatory and reactionary immigration policies and a ...
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Contract workers demand pay from BTC
Unpaid sub-contracted workers of Bahamas Telecommunications Company wait at the parking lot of the company's John F. Kennedy Drive headquarters yesterday seeking payment. TORRELL GLINTON TNG ...
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Policeman says he saw Stephen Stubbs stash gun
A policeman yesterday claimed that he saw Stephen Stubbs put a .45 caliber pistol under a car in the parking lot of Club Rock Disco on West Bay Street. Stubbs, Andrew Davis and Clinton Evans are on trial before Justice Roy Jones for the murder of DC Jimmy Ambrose and the attempted murder of Constable Marcian Scott at the club on March 29, 1999. They have denied the allegations. Constable ...
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Lawyer says legal action looms in St. John’s feud
An attorney representing scores of parents whose children attended St. John's College said yesterday she would file legal action against the school as early as this week if the Anglican Central Education Authority (ACEA) does not reverse its decision to cancel the graduation ceremony and prom. Graduation was scheduled for this morning. The ACEA has said it canceled the school's prom ...
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Officials to address cruise industry’s crime concern
The Ministry of Tourism, the police and major cruise lines are working on a white paper on crime that will specifically address how to prevent crime in tourist areas, Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe said. This comes after several cruise lines that visit The Bahamas began issuing crime warnings to their passengers. The proposed white paper was discussed during a meeting attended by police, ...
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$20m more for Bahamasair
The government has allocated $20 million to Bahamasair in the upcoming fiscal year, Deputy Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said yesterday. "Bahamasair holdings continues to suffer from high labor costs and an aging fleet, escalating fuel costs and a commitment to unprofitable domestic [routes]," Davis said during his contribution to debate of the 2013/2014 budget in the House of ...
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Man charged with June 9 murder
Police have charged a man with the murder of Sidney Brown, who was murdered earlier this month. Shadrach Gibson, 18, of Johnson Alley, is accused of the fatal stabbing of Brown on June 9. Brown was found stabbed to death on a sidewalk near Jerome Avenue and Wulff Road. Gibson was not required to enter a plea to the charge at his arraignment before Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez yesterday. He ...
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Cubas Resolution on Puerto Rico Stresses at UN
Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) Edwin Gonzalez, delegate of the Puerto Rican Mission in Havana, stressed the importance of the draft resolution submitted by Cuba on his country in the UN Decolonization Committee, Granma newspaper reported. The fact that the "UN participate on the matter is of vital importance to our independentist intentions, as the U.S. justification for ignoring the matter ...
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Icon Dominican border town resumes trade with Haiti for now
Dajabon, Dom. Rep.- The local retailers association of Dajabon, the country's biggest and most active border town, lifted the strike in effect since yesterday to protest the Haitian government's ban on Dominican Republic poultry products, enacted citing concerns over alleged bird flu. Tractor-trailers and other vehicles were allowed to cross into and out of Haiti since early Tuesday ...
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Raul Castro Meets President of Sao Tome and Principe
Havana, Jun 18 (Prensa Latina) President Raul Castro met Manuel Pinto da Costa, President of the Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, who continues today an official visit to this country. Both leaders referred to the relations of friendship and cooperation between their countries, expressed their interest in strengthening bilateral ties, and also talked on international issues. ...
Caribbean Spotlight
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Caribbean set to ban the discharge of all non-food waste anywhere in its waters
Every single year, around 50,000 cruise ships alone, carrying a total of 14.5 million passengers, call at various ports in the Caribbean. With them comes sewerage, solid waste, leftover food, oily bilge water, and ‘grey water’ (the waste water from showering, bathing, washing up etc). Years ago, all of this waste would have been dumped into the crystal oceans of the world by cruise lines and other shipping companies, but the Wider Caribbean region has taken steps to prevent the further destruction of their environments.
Right now, at any given time, there are hundreds of cruise ships, tankers, bulk carriers, fishing vessels and pleasure craft frequenting the waters of the Wider Caribbean, a huge area of ocean of around 3.3 million square kilometers. The Wider Caribbean is home to 28 nations, either island nations or countries with a coastline on the Caribbean. Read more
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