In late news before late publication there is the announcement that the ferry service will revert to four days weekly. It seems surprising and must be a stark indication of the tourism activity in the height of the tourist season. The following release from GIU (Government Information Unit) describes in very simple terms that Montserrat [...]
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Ferry service reduced to twice weekly and then back to four days
Posted on 20 January 2012.
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Haiti, Two Years Later
Posted on 20 January 2012.
News Americas, PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: Two years after the horrific earthquake in Haiti, some 500,000 people still live under terrible conditions in makeshift camps. That’s the word from Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), which was working in Haiti before the disaster and lost 12 staff members in the earthquake. The piles of rubble and gaping [...]
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FIFA cuts Jack Warner’s son Daryll from payroll as Caribbean development officer
Posted on 17 January 2012.
By Associated Press ZURICH — FIFA has cut another tie to disgraced former Vice President Jack Warner, ending his son’s job as a Caribbean development officer. FIFA says in a statement that Daryll Warner is not on its staff but did not elaborate, citing “employment confidentiality.” His father resigned last June to avoid investigation for [...]
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Happy New Year
Posted on 01 January 2012.
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Allen Stanford Found Mentally Fit to Stand Trial for Alleged Ponzi Scheme
Posted on 30 December 2011.
By Laurel Brubaker Calkins – R. Allen Stanford is mentally fit to stand trial and will face a jury next month on charges he swindled investors of more than $7 billion, a U.S. judge ruled. The trial is to begin with jury selection on Jan. 23. Stanford’s defense team argued unsuccessfully that his mental capacity [...]
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Jamaca’s opposition wins elections in a landslide
Posted on 30 December 2011.
DAVID MCFADDEN, Associated Press KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — On Jamaica’s rutted streets, the complaints have been chronic — home ownership is out of reach for most wage earners, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed, water service regularly fizzles out and decent jobs are scarce. Fed up with chronic hard times, voters in this debt-wracked Caribbean nation [...]
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Caribbean Travel: Cooking An Airline’s Goose
Posted on 23 December 2011.
Caribbean News By Sir Ronald Sanders LIAT, the small Caribbean airline that has been the workhorse of the region for several decades, is having its goose cooked. And the cooking is being done by a few of its pilots, two of the 10 unions representing its workers, and some Caribbean governments and Caribbean institutions which have [...]
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Drug-fighting Gallatin home after Crew makes 4 major busts, helps with fifth
Posted on 16 December 2011.
By Allyson Bird They seized nearly $100 million worth of drugs while patrolling the Caribbean Sea, boarding smugglers’ boats, recovering bales of marijuana tossed into the clear blue water and discovering pounds of cocaine weighing down small pleasure craft. Maritime Enforcement Specialist Troy Matthews reunites with his wife, Melissa, and their 6-year-old daughter Abigail after [...]
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Guyana gets slim minority government
Posted on 10 December 2011.
Electoral officials in Guyana say Donald Ramotar of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP/C) is to be the next president. But the party, mainly backed by Guyana’s ethnic-Indians, lost its parliamentary majority for the first time in 19 years. This could make it difficult for Mr Ramotar if opposition parties opt to work together, analysts [...]
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Jamaica PM calls general elections
Posted on 09 December 2011.
(AP)- KINGSTON — Prime Minister Andrew Holness announced on Sunday that general elections will be held in this island nation on Dec. 29, a year ahead of a constitutional deadline and in the thick of the crucial winter tourist season. Elections were due by December 2012, but Holness said the Caribbean island’s international partners and [...]
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