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www.skysports.com/story/... - England have won the opening match in the Co-operative International Netball Series with a 67-54 victory against Jamaica at London's O2 Arena. The home side set the pace in the first quarter by building on turnover balls in their defensive centre area and by starving the Jamaican shooters of possession. more...()
www.jis.gov.jm/informati... - The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, in association with the Jamaica Information Service (JIS) will be staging a reggae symposium and art exhibition on Monday, February
Entitled 'Salute to Reggae', the event, which gets underway at 6:30 p.m. at the Embassy's downtown Washington, D.C offices, is in observance of February as Reggae Month. more...()
news.yahoo.com/s/afp/200... - The US economic embargo on Cuba "has failed," top Republican lawmaker Richard Lugar has said in a report likely to fuel momentum for a shift in US' decades-old policy toward the island. "After 47 years ... the unilateral embargo on Cuba has failed to achieve its stated purpose of 'bringing democracy to the Cuban people,' said the senator from Indiana -- a senior member or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "it may have been used as a foil by the regime to demand further sacrifices from Cuba's impoverished population."
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/293... - Martinique is canceling its yearly carnival festival for the first time as a two-week-old strike continues to paralyze services across the French Caribbean island. Fort-de-France Mayor Serge Letchimy says he canceled the event in respect for an activist killed this week in the nearby island of Guadeloupe. The government there is confronting a monthlong strike. more...()
edition.cnn.com/2009/WOR... - French President Nicolas Sarkozy is pledging $730 million (? 580 million) in economic aid to France's Caribbean territories in an effort to head off escalating protests, his office said Friday. Sarkozy made the announcement after a meeting in Paris with leaders from French Caribbean territories. He also proposed adding ?200 ($253) a month to the salaries of low-paid workers. more...()
www.antiguasun.com/paper... - Winton Wesley Buckley, a Jamaican man, has been convicted and fined $120,000 after pleading guilty to importation of five pounds of cannabis. Buckley appeared in the All Saints Magistrates' Court before Senior Magistrate Asquith Riviere. He was also charged with possession and possession with intent to supply the drug. The latter was withdrawn after he pleaded not guilty to the offence. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - A 23-year-old man was early yesterday morning stabbed to death allegedly by a woman with whom he had a relationship for the past two years. His 25-year-old girlfriend, with whom he had shared a home up to one month ago, is now in custody at the East La Penitence Police Station. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - A 26-year-old woman is now hospitalised following a violent knife attack by the father of her child who later killed himself. A stabbed, cut and bruised Dianne Browne said from her bed in Ward C of the Georgetown Public Hospital that she still feared for her life even though the man who attacked her, 44-year-old Julius Chung is no more.
It was a bloody scene at the Lot 40 Joseph Pollydore Street, Lodge, home yesterday where Chung bled to death on a mattress in one of the rooms around 11:30 am. It was in that same room he launched the knife attack on the mother of his 13-month-old son, who valiantly fought for her life, escaped and sought help from her landlord who lives above their apartment. more...()
www.google.com/hostednew... - JARRATT, Va. - An inmate declared his innocence Thursday after he was forcibly carried into Virginia's death chamber, where he was executed for gunning down a police officer. Edward Nathaniel Bell, who was convicted of killing the officer during a foot chase a decade ago, was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center. more...()
www.washingtonpost.com/w... - Bell, a native of Jamaica, has maintained his innocence in the death of Timbrook, 32, who was shot one time above the right eye. Since his death, the Winchester community has named a public safety building, a park and a children's outreach program for him. more...()
www.antiguasun.com/paper... - A statement issued by the Antigua Labour Party yesterday, described as irresponsible the behaviour of United Progressive Party (UPP) candidates who encouraged Bank of Antigua depositors to withdraw their monies in light of the Stanford Financial Group going into receivership. more...()
currentaffairs.ninemsn.c... - Guatemala has apologised for allowing the United States to use the country as a platform for the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.Speaking during a visit to Havana, President Alvaro Colom earned rapturous applause while saying sorry for the government's co-operation with Washington in the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. more...()
www.wral.com/news/nation... - Rioters fired at police and stormed a city hall in a third night of violence on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, officials said Thursday, as France proposed a plan to boost poor islanders' income in a bid to cool tensions.
Weeks of strikes by workers demanding higher salaries and lower prices degenerated into clashes this week. A union activist was killed Tuesday, apparently by rioters, raising the pressure on the central government in Paris. more...()
www.jamaica-gleaner.com/... - The Jamaica Council of Churches (JCC) has become the latest addition to the ongoing debate surrounding the purification of Jamaican dancehall music, with the organisation calling for a further ban to be placed on street and community dances, which perpetuate the playing of sexually crude and explicit songs. more...()
www.google.com/hostednew... - ST. JOHN'S, Antigua (AP) Panicky depositors rushed to pull money from banks and leaders in the Caribbean and Latin America urged calm on Wednesday, concerned that their slumping economies could be harmed by the fraud case against Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. more...()
www.google.com/hostednew... - KINGSTON (AFP) Spain's King and Queen have began a two-day state visit to Jamaica. The royal couple -- King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia -- touched down at Norman Manley International Airport earlier today, where they were greeted by Governor General Kenneth Hall and Prime Minister Bruce Golding. more...()
www.jis.gov.jm/informati... - Rare photographs providing a unique glimpse into the life of the late reggae king, Bob Marley, are now on display at the Govinda Gallery, downtown Washington DC, U.S.A. The exhibition is entitled, Soul Rebel: An Intimate Portrait of Bob Marley. It comprises some 40 never-before-seen photos taken by Time magazine photographer, David Burnett. more...()
www.caribbeannetnews.com... - KINGSTON, Jamaica (OPM): Prime Minister Bruce Golding has called for a set of recommendations on the action and the direction to be taken to clean up the music that is broadcast or projected in public spaces and through the electronic media. more...()
www.muzikspace.com - Washington, D.C., Feb. 17, 2009 The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Robert Allen Stanford and three of his companies for orchestrating a fraudulent, multi-billion dollar investment scheme centering on an $8 billion CD program. more...()
www.trinidadexpress.com/... - Part-time taxi-driver, Deoraj Bansraj, was on his way to meet his wife at a wedding when he was hijacked, robbed and killed. His wife, Phulmattie Bansraj, stood at the side of the road and waited for more than two hours for her husband, but he never arrived. more...()
www.jamaicaobserver.com/... - POLICE Constable Rushon Hamilton was Saturday charged with murder in the case of kidnapped 14-year-old Jhaneel Goulbourne, based on a ruling by the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, which had reviewed a case file containing allegations against the cop. more...()
cbs4.com/local/haiti.dep... - Thirty Thousand (30,000) Haitians have been ordered to leave the country by U.S. immigration authorities. But, Haitian officials say they're not going to issue the travel documents the thousands of Haitians need in order to return to their native country. The U.S. had put in a 3 month break in Haitian deportations that ended on December 5. more...()
www.jamaica-star.com/the... - What was supposed to be a rewarding job experience for at least three Jamaicans turned out to be a nightmare for them in Laventille, Trinidad, last month..."The living condition was hell, not even yuh pig dem yuh woulda mek go through dat," Khris Breezy* said in his short description of the house. more...()
www.tmz.com/2009/02/16/s... - So Suge Knight got the you-know-what beat out of him this morning. Scottsdale cops now tell us Suge fractured several bones in his face -- the result of a beating at the W Hotel early this morning, allegedly at the hands of a member from Akon's camp. more...()
www.miamiherald.com/news... - Enacted in December, the Law of Historic Memory has thousands of Cubans in Havana lining up for Spanish citizenship -- and a potential way off the island. HAVANA -- Marisabel, a warehouse clerk in her 40s, wants to leave Cuba and move to Spain. A tattered piece of paper -- her grandmother's Spanish birth certificate -- may allow her to do that. more...()
www.google.com/hostednew... - KINGSTON, Jamaica (AFP) Usain Bolt opened his 2009 season here Saturday the same way he ran to sprint gold at the Beijing Olympics, slowing before the finish but crossing the line well ahead of his rivals. The Jamaican star, and world's fastest man, turned in a creditable 400m performance at the Camperdown Classic, winning his heat in 46.35 seconds to capture the three-heat final. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - A schoolgirl suspected to have been abducted and then raped was yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital awaiting treatment but was likely going to be transferred to another facility for further treatment. According to reports reaching this newspaper, the 15-year-old girl was on her way to school yesterday morning when she was picked up on the Grove Public Road by a mini bus with three men. more...()
www.ajc.com/services/con... - If you're traveling outside the United States in 2009, here are two pieces of advice: Get or renew your passport now, and think twice before planning a car trip to Mexico or Canada in June. That's when we may see the biggest change ever for Western Hemisphere travel. Starting June 1 (unless Congress changes the deadline), Americans will need to show a passport, a passport card or other special document to return to the United States by land or sea from Mexico and Canada. more...()
www.stabroeknews.com/200... - Defending champion and current points leaders Jamaica were large and in charge against home team and bottom-of-the-table Guyana at the end of the first day of their sixth round clash in the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) four-day competition at the Guyana National Stadium Providence, yesterday. more...()
news.stv.tv/world/75932-... - MIAMI/BOSTON (Reuters) - Scrutiny of Texas billionaire Allen Stanford's investment bank expanded on Friday into the Caribbean, where regulators planned to quiz officials about his offshore banking unit. The Wall Street Journal separately reported that the FBI had joined the investigation, showing intensifying scrutiny over the case that has, along with Bernard Madoff's suspected $50 billion fraud, put regulators and investors on high alert. more...()
www.trinidadexpress.com/... - CAPTAIN Dwight Yorke will miss Trinidad and Tobago's next two World Cup qualifiers-against Honduras (March 28) and the United States (April 1)-and may be suspended for as many as four matches due to his actions at the end of Wednesday's game against El Salvador in San Salvador. more...()
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