Provides the latest RSS feeds for Caribbean News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Caribbean News.net http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/cat/e5abd99746ab67f4/ en-us Fri, 24 May 2013 07:01:36 -0400 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:01:36 -0400 30 Elaine Constantine/Contributed photo File Photo: Ojai-based musician Lissie. Taking a break from her U.S. tour, Lissie — the stage name for Elisabeth Corrin Maurus — is swinging by her adopted hometown of Ojai to perform at the Libbey Bowl on Saturday for a concert benefiting Changing Tides Orphanage in ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733339/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:19:07 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733339/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Havana, May 24 (Prensa Latina) Educating the public about the importance of reducing the exposure of children and adolescents to secondhand smoke is a priority in Cuba during a day of activities for World No Tobacco Day. Dr. Elba Lorenzo, national coordinator of the program for prevention and control of smoking in Cuba, said in a news conference that the risk of infection in the respiratory ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733393/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:13:11 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733393/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 4 de mayo de 2013, 00:01 Santo Domingo, May 24 (Prensa Latina) National Black Light Theatre Prague will perform again in Dominican Republic next June 8, with the show Aspects of Alicia, reported local media. The play, to be exhibited at National Theater Eduardo Brito, is a version of Alice in Wonderland, the legendary creation of Lewis Carroll. Under the direction of Czech Pavel Marek, the public ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733633/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Fri, 24 May 2013 05:13:08 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214733633/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Simpson Bay, St. Maarten - Princess Juliana International Airport (SXM) became the first Caribbean airport to receive the International Transport Award given by the Global Trade Leaders' Club (GTLC) since the award was established 15 years ago. It was also the only airport to receive the award this year out of a total of 15 awardees. Receiving the award on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Madrid, ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214730172/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:34:07 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214730172/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 The National Assembly of Cuba re-elected Raul Castro as president (head of the State Council and the government). Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected first vice-president of the State Council, which means that in five years he could be Raul's successor. The President promised Cubans revenue growth, but warned that the new society would no longer be the society "of ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214730221/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 23:19:02 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214730221/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu May 23, 2013 9:29pm EDT * Importer faces up to 12 years in prison * Trials of more foreign businessmen expected * Corruption arrests unprecedented in Cuba (Updates with end of trial's first day) By Marc Frank HAVANA, May 23 (Reuters) - A Cuban court on Thursday wrapped up the first day of testimony in the graft trial of a Canadian businessman whose prosecution is part of a corruption ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214729629/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 21:29:56 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214729629/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration issued a forecast Thursday for an active or extremely active 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. NOAA's Climate Prediction Center, in its hurricane season outlook, forecast a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms (winds of 39 mph or higher) -- of which seven to 11 could become hurricanes (winds of 74 mph or higher), including ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214728871/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:35:43 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214728871/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Icon: 18 units coming to Market Street Graystar is fueling up on Castro apartments. The South Carolina-based developer, which has 200,000 rental housing units under management, has filed an application to build 87 units at 2198 Market St., a former Shell gas station. The project is being designed by HellerManus. The project site consists of a triangular shaped lot with frontage on Market and ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214728265/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 20:27:23 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214728265/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 The IOC will vote on whether to include one of the following sports in the 2020 Olympic programme on 8 September 2013 at the 125th IOC Session in Buenos ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214727285/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 19:54:50 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214727285/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Paris, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Cuba´s People´s National Assembly President Esteban Lazo made a visit to UNESCO headquarters, here today, where he was welcomed by acting general director Hans d''Orville. Different topics were discussed in a cordial environment at the meeting, including the United Nations reform process for Education, Science, and Culture, the financial ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214726025/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:47:11 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214726025/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 MIAMI - When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American community who do not believe in pacific opposition. The reaction has been far different. When he went to the Versailles restaurant, a traditional gathering spot for older exiles in the city's Little Havana neighbourhood, he was embraced. ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214724576/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 17:06:51 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214724576/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 MIAMI -; When Cuban hunger striker Guillermo Farinas arrived in Miami, he said he was prepared to face rejection from radical members of the Cuban-American ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723111/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:20:30 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723111/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) Half a century from its foundation, the Cuban Institute for Research on Sugar Cane By-Products (ICIDCA) is focusing on agricultural diversification programs with the development of new products. Sources from the sector highlighted among the current guidelines the improvement of the processes to obtain alcohol, torula melasse, sorbitol, animal food, and bioproducts ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723112/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:19:05 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723112/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Miami.-The Dominican Republic is among Latin America's fastest growing trade partners of China and South Korea, according to an analysis by online publication Latinvex based on figures from the International Monetary Fund and the Korean government. Dominican Republic exports to China last year grew 40.8 percent to $411 million. That was the fifth-highest increase in Latin America. Total ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723113/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723113/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 College Park, Md.- The Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico and other tropical storm-prone areas had better get ready for another busy hurricane season, maybe unusually wild, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) forecast Thursday, AP reports. NOAA said there'll be 13 to 20 named Atlantic storms, 7 to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and 3 to 6 that become major hurricanes. It ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723114/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723114/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Santo Domingo.- The United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) on Thursday rejected the planned mine at Loma Miranda (central) by the Canadian company Xstrata Nickel Falcondo. "The deficiency in the environmental impact study concludes that the project doesn't meet the country's environmental and social requirements," said UNDP local representative Velerie Julliand. The ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723115/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:11:15 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214723115/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Officials yesterday defended the timing of storm alerts amid cries from many residents that they were unprepared for the heavy downpour that flooded significant portions of New Providence. The thunderstorm passed over the island Tuesday evening and yesterday. Trevor Basden, senior deputy director at the Department of Meteorology, said proper alerts were issued on time. "We were tracking ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721570/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:05 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721570/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Perry Walkine awoke Tuesday night to the sound of his kitchen cabinet falling and discovered that his entire apartment was flooded in five inches of water. Walkine, a retiree, lives in the government apartments on Sutton Street, off Lyon Road, in the Kemp Road area. "This is the first time that I have experienced such things with the water," he said. "Last night, one of my ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721571/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:07:02 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721571/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 The trial of a man accused of the murder of an 11-year-old boy did not proceed yesterday because of absent jurors. Kofhe Goodman, 40, is on trial for the September 2011 murder of Marco Archer. Goodman has denied the allegation at his trial before Justice Bernard Turner. The judge adjourned the trial to Friday because Goodman's lawyer, Geoffrey Farquharson, will be in the Court of Appeal ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721572/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:06:59 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721572/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 A judge yesterday postponed the sentencing of a man convicted of hacking his girlfriend to death. Prince Hepburn, 50, appeared before Justice Indra Charles for the sentencing phase of the murder trial for the death of Nellie Mae Brown-Cox. Charles adjourned the matter to May 30 because she had not received the psychiatric report she needed to determine sentencing. Hepburn, who was married, ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721573/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:06:57 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721573/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas - The LPGA Tour is going to use as much of the flooded Ocean Club course as it can for its inaugural trip to the Bahamas.The Bahamas LPGA Classic is to start Friday with a 12-hole round, using the holes that are not under water from the worst flooding in about 20 years. Officials hope the rest of the course will drain in time for an 18-hole Sunday. Otherwise, it would be ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721574/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:06:40 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721574/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of real estate as they continue to seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721575/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 15:04:56 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721575/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Officials in the Turks and Caicos Islands have recovered $19.5 million and more than 2,500 acres (1,000 hectares) of prized real estate as they seize assets improperly obtained by corrupt politicians. Thursday's announcement comes six months after the territory began to govern itself for the first time in three years following direct rule imposed by Britain due to a ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721341/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:29 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721341/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - Election officials in the Cayman Islands say the opposition party has won nine of 18 seats, one short of a majority needed to control the British territory's legislature. The results released Thursday mean that attorney Alden McLaughlin's People's Progressive Movement will be the dominant force in a coalition government. Negotiations to choose the ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721576/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:33:29 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214721576/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 From Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Taiwan to Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Panama, Colombia and Puerto Rico, the hike will be $980 per 20-foot container and $1,400 per 40-foot and 40-foot high-cube ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718386/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:24:14 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718386/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 LAST month McKeeva Bush, the ousted premier of the Cayman Islands, appeared in court to contest a string of charges, some stemming from alleged use of his government credit card in American casinos. His next date with the judge is in June. But in a general election on May 22nd voters delivered their own verdict: with most votes counted, it seemed they had re-elected Mr Bush to the West Bay seat ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718387/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:46 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718387/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 The comandante emerges from his bunker AFTER the 1959 revolution Fidel Castro declared that golf was a "bourgeois" hobby, unsuitable for communists. Most of the island's courses were built on, and no new ones have been developed since. But the government has just given the go-ahead to a new golf resort, in what it claims is "the start of a whole new policy to increase the ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718388/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:20:41 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718388/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 As the annual rainy season gathers over Haiti, bringing the risk of a renewed cholera epidemic that first struck in October 2011, growing numbers of health care professionals and relief workers are openly critical of the United Nations -- which many believe brought the deadly disease to Haiti in the first place. "The situation is worse than it was two years ago, " says Duncan ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718389/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:06 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718389/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Lawmakers in the lower chamber yesterday began debate on the Homeowners Protection Bill, which is designed to assist struggling homeowners facing "extraordinary" circumstances to keep their homes. Moving the Bill in the House of Assembly was State Minister for Finance Michael Halkitis. "This Bill represents a modernisation of the lending framework in The Bahamas and creates a ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718514/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:52:14 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214718514/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 HAVANA -; The trial of a Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba is apparently under way nearly two years after he was ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716557/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:23 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716557/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Addis Ababa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The foreign ministers of the African Union (AU) adopted "by consensus or acclamation," a motion of support and gratitude to Cuba, for its contribution to the emancipation of Africa, a regional executive told Prensa Latina. The executive secretary of the South African Development Community (SADC), the Mozambican Tomaz Salomao, said the text was also ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716802/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:14:42 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716802/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 3 de mayo de 2013, 10:23 Paris, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The significance of the San Antonio de los Baños International Film School (EICTV) in Cuba, where young filmmakers from many countries have trained, was highlighted in France during an exhibition of films from the school. Founded 27 years ago, the institution is one of the most important of its kind in the world, and its associated ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716801/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 11:14:42 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716801/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings has removed from Rating Watch Negative and affirmed National Commercial Bank Jamaica Limited's (NCBJ) long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'B-'. At the same time, Fitch has assigned a Negative Outlook to NCBJ's long-term IDRs. A full list of rating actions is at the end of this press release. ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716991/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:57:03 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214716991/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Havana, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, sent congratulations today to the workers of the national community program of comprehensive rehabilitation of patients, started a decade ago. Since 2003, these services were expanded throughout the island, with 400 wards where about 69 million patients have so far benefited, with high levels of ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214715157/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:02 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214715157/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Addis Ababa, May 23 (Prensa Latina) The economic blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba is unjust and illegal, stated today in this capital Saharawi Foreign Minister, Mohamed Ould Salek, who said that position is common among African ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214715270/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 10:01:57 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214715270/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 ALBA -1 submarine cable, which connects the island with Venezuela, according to Doug Madory of internet analysis firm Renesys. Madory told The Associated Press that he detected new traffic between state-owned telecoms monopoly Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba (ETECSA) and Cable & Wireless Jamaica beginning 13 May 2013. 'They’re gaining some physical diversity there, so if ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214713634/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:48 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214713634/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Santo Domingo.- The National Investigations Department (DNI) arrested members of a people trafficking network with possible links to international terrorist cells, who used Dominican Republic as a bridge from Cuba, France, Spain, Sri Lanka and Haiti. DNI chief operating officer Fidel Paulino identified the Sri Lankan- Canadian Karunanithy Nallathamby as the group's leader, arrested in ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214713917/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 08:41:39 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214713917/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Find out about the 31st Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba (an annual trip organised through the Australia Cuba Friendship Societies), 29 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014. Lotteries House, 2 Delhi Street, West Perth Are you interested in: Agricultural sustainability? Food security? Global social justice? Universal health care? Education? Organic Gardening? Socialism in practice? The brigade offers the ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214708345/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:18 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214708345/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 UP CLOSE: In this May 2 photo, a tourist takes photographs of a leatherback turtle as it heads to the ocean after burying her eggs in the sand at daybreak on a narrow strip of beach in Grande Riviere, Trinidad. Officials with the US-based Sea Turtle Conservancy say Trinidad is now likely the world's leading tourist destination for people to see ... http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214706233/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:47:20 -0400 http://www.caribbeannews.net/index.php/sid/214706233/scat/e5abd99746ab67f4