Calls for a Caribbean strategy to deal with Black Sigatoka (0)
2/06/10 •
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – The Guyana government is calling for a Caribbean approach to deal with the deadly Black Sigatoka disease now affecting the plantain and banana industry in the region.
Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud said the approach to dealing with the fungal disease would require the support and cooperation of all including researchers, regional institutions [...]
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Kowlessar blasts Gibson appointment (0)
2/05/10 •
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 4, CMC – A top Trinidad & Tobago Cricket Board official has blasted the appointment of Ottis Gibson as West Indies coach and says David Williams has gotten a raw deal.
Lalman Kowlessar, an executive member of the TTCB, said he did not view Gibson’s hiring as a positive move for [...]
Laboratory Quality Management Systems (0)
2/04/10 •
The Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Bureau of Standards has once again set the standard. This time around they have collaborated with the Caribbean Regional Organization for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) to host a two day workshop dubbed “Laboratory Quality Management System.” (ISO/IEC 17025) The Workshop was launched in a Press Conference hosted by The [...]
Gayle’s scorching hundred gives Windies victory (0)
2/04/10 •
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb 4, CMC – Chris Gayle’s blazing century provided the platform for a rousing 90-run victory for touring West Indies over the Australian Prime Minister’s XI in a rain-reduced warm-up match on Thursday.
Gayle delivered a vicious captain’s knock of 146 off 89 balls and shared in a double-century opening stand with Travis Dowlin [...]
Police officers convicted for brutalising teenager (1)
2/04/10 •
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Three police officers face possible jail sentences for causing “brutalising” a 15 year-old boy.
Senior Magistrate Donald Browne gave the three lawmen one month to pay their EC$1,500 (US$560) fines, failing which they will be required to spend six months in prison.
However, Browne said it was not his intention to put [...]
Latest CFU ratings (0)
2/03/10 •
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Feb 3, CMC – Latest Caribbean Football Union (CFU) rankings, collated from the FIFA Coca Cola rankings released on Wednesday (world rating in bracket).
1 Jamaica (78)
2 Trinidad & Tobago (84)
3 Haiti (95)
4 Cuba (125)
5 Guyana (126)
6 Antigua & Barbuda (127)
7 Barbados (128)
8 Grenada (133)
9 Bermuda (135)
10 Suriname (142)
11 St Kitts & [...]
St Vincent PM urges closer cooperation with African countries (0)
2/03/10 •
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, CMC – St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves has told African leaders that the bonds between the African continent and the Caribbean must be strengthened.
“We wish to reaffirm our love to Africa and our commitment to work together to build a better life for our populations,” he told [...]
Opposition Leader reiterates support for economic citizenship programme (0)
2/02/10 •
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace has dismissed concerns by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines government over the economic citizenship programme, saying both the United States and Canada have such programmes.
“The point is, when you establish such programmes, they must be tight and well managed. This is a way of attracting [...]
14th Annual Perinatal/Morbidity/Mortality Conference (0)
2/02/10 •
One of the major concerns raised at the 14th Annual Perinatal/Morbidity/Mortality Conference was the number of babies born to HIV/AIDS positive mothers during 2009.
Medical practitioners present stressed that there seventeen (17) deliveries of that nature in 2009; fortunately, the babies were not infected with the HIV/AIDS virus giving credit to the high quality of anti [...]
Opposition Leader defends ‘Haiti’ comments (0)
2/02/10 •
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Opposition Leader Arnhim Eustace on Monday defended comments he made alluding to the 2010 budget as akin to a building crumbling during the recent catastrophic earthquake in Haiti.
“Why would I make fun of Haiti,” said the New Democratic Party (NDP) leader said on a radio programme.
He had earlier said the [...]
Prime Minister heads delegation to Libya (0)
1/30/10 •
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is heading a four-member delegation to Libya as part of a visit that will also take him to Ethiopia.
Gonsalves is expected to attend the meeting of the African Union in Addis Abba after holding discussions with officials in Tripoli.
Last year, Libya sent a delegation to [...]
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