Hail to the Reef
By Bob Friel
The Water-Sports Lovers Guide to Ambergris Caye, Belize
The ancient Maya loved fishing and paddling. They were so eager to access the water sports off the coast of Belize that they dug a narrow channel across the dangly southern terminus of the Yucatán Peninsula as a shortcut for their canoes. This [...]
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – The Grenada government Tuesday denied it had banned Jamaican dancehall artiste, Clifford Smith, popularly known as “Mr Vegas”, from performing here on Saturday, insisting that show promoters should follow the proper procedures laid down for obtaining the necessary work permits.
Labour Minister Karl Hood in a statement issued here said that [...]
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Officials here have called for HIV testing to be part of a mandatory set of medical checks for certain categories of workers entering Antigua and Barbuda.
Educator and Counsellor with the AIDS Secretariat, Oswald Hannis, said that Antigua should follow the lead of the United States and demand such screening for [...]
Refineries in the US have been hit hard by the recession, which cut demand for refined oil products, and the industry continues to struggle. As oil companies consider idling or shutting down refineries, the industry now confronts another challenge 80 miles off the coast of Florida: the expansion of the Borco oil terminal on the [...]
HOUSTON, USA (Reuters) — The Antiguan liquidators, not the US receiver, should be recognized as the foreign. representatives of Allen Stanford’s offshore bank in the United Kingdom, an English appeals court ruled on Thursday.
The liquidators appointed by the Antiguan government and Ralph Janvey, the US receiver appointed by a federal judge in Dallas, have [...]
By Sir Ronald Sanders
(The writer is a Consultant and former Caribbean diplomat)
At a meeting of leaders of Latin America and the Caribbean on February 23, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) governments supported a joint “Declaration on (the) Falklands Islands Issue”.
The Declaration “confirmed their support of Argentina’s legitimate rights in the sovereignty dispute with the United Kingdom [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, February 26, 2010 – A cacophony of murmurs and cries echoed through the neighbourhoods of Haiti’s capital city Monday night as a violent aftershock shook people awake. Ten minutes later, another tremor rocked the ground, this time more smoothly back and forth.
The 4.7 magnitude tremors were a momentary distraction from pressing concerns over [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – A university lecturer says the United States may have been sending a message to the Bruce Golding administration when it revoked the visa of a prominent businessman and a long time associate of the prime minister.
Professor of Law at the University of Miami, David Rowe, says the decision to revoke the [...]
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