Category: News

The news items published under this category are as follows.

News: Ex-Haiti leader calls for 'peaceful resistance'

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 03:51 PM
Haiti

HaitiIn his first public press conference in exile in Africa, Jean-Bertrand Aristide insisted Monday he was still president of Haiti and called for "peaceful resistance" against what he's described as the "occupation" of his homeland...

News Source: MSNBC

News: Bandits kick down door, rob lotto millionaire

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 06:16 AM
Guyana

The millionaire winner of a recent lotto jackpot was made to scale a fence Saturday evening as she desperately tried to escape four armed bandits who stormed her house and escaped with over $200,000 in cash and jewellery...

News Source: Stabroek News

News: Extortion rampant

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 06:12 AM
Jamaica

Extortion is still at an "unacceptably high" level within the construction industry, says Donald Mullings, president of the Incorporated Masterbuilders Association of Jamaica...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

News: Starry Starry Night

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 06:07 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

It mattered not to the hundreds of patrons gathered at Canoe Bay, Tobago last week that the Starball concert-scheduled for a 10 p.m. start-began four hours late. It was long forgotten that most of this wait time was spent getting into the venue using a road akin to that of an abandoned quarry...

News Source: Trinidad Express Mix

News: Odds stacked against women, says Annan

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 06:02 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

On marking International Women's Day, the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan has stated that women are increasingly bearing the brunt of the HIV/Aids epidemic. "If these rates of infection continue, women will soon become the majority of the global total of people infected."

News Source: Trinidad Express

News: Arthur: Govts must work out dispute

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 05:51 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Prime Minister Owen Arthur has warned businessmen planning an unofficial mission to Trinidad and Tobago this week, against sending the wrong signals in the very politically-charged environment around the fishing and maritime boundaries dispute...

News Source: Trinidad Express

News: 'Satan' murdered

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 09:08 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

A man who earned the nickname "Satan" after a life of killing, shooting and robbing, was shot dead by a fellow criminal in San Fernando on Friday night...

News Source: Trinidad Express

News: Extradite Him

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 09:04 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

Muslimeen member Clive Lancelot Small was yesterday arrested following a United States request for his extradition to face arms charges in Florida...

News Source: Trinidad Express

News: Quick murder, quick getaway

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 08:59 PM
Jamaica

The police have intensified their probe into the use of high-speed motorcycles in a series of murders, extortions and carjackings. Deputy Commissioner of Police...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

News: 150 dangerous criminals on the loose

Sunday, March 07, 2004 - 08:47 PM
Jamaica

Over 150 of Jamaica's most dangerous criminals are on the run, defying police efforts to bring them to justice for a variety of crimes, including double murder, murder, conspiracy to murder, shooting with intent, illegal possession of firearm, rape, kidnapping and carnal abuse, police sources said...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

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