Barbados plans to shift gears in sports tourism with plans to host the first of three Top Gear Festivals in May 2014. Tourism and International Transport Minister Richard Sealy has outlined plans for this international motor sport event which is geared at boosting the island's tourism industry, reports CMC. "We have signed an agreement with the producers of the Top Gear Programme, to have the ...
Cuba eliminated from Gold Cup
Caribbean Cup champions Cuba were eliminated from the CONCACAF Gold Cup Tournament with a 1-6 loss to Panama in a quarterfinal game. Cuba opened the scoring in the 21st minute from Jose Ciprian but then conceded a goal through a penalty as Gabriel Torres was spot on in the 25th minute for Panama Saturday night, reports CMC. Panama added a second goal through Torres before the interval. The ...
Jamaica to install electronic billboards with missing childrens info
Electronic billboards with missing children's information and photos will be set up in the next few months in five Jamaican cities, government officials said. The goal of the billboards to be placed in Kingston, Montego Bay, Savannna-la-Mar, Spanish Town and Ocho Rios is to help the public identify children immediately after they go missing and better enable the police to find them, the ...
Jamaica Pushes Back Human Trafficking
Kingston, 21 Jul (Prensa Latina) The amendments to the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Suppression and Punishment) Act, now before Parliament, go beyond just introducing stiffer penalties for perpetrators. The amendments focus on victim protection and assistance, including the expansion of the definition of "exploitation" to include debt bondage (where a victim is forced to work ...
Team USA Tops Cuba 1-0
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Texas Christian sophomore Brandon Finnegan limited Cuba to three hits in seven innings in Team USA?s 1-0 victory Saturday night, the Americans? third straight one-run win in the first three games of the five-game exhibition series. Finnegan struck out seven and walked one. ';Once we scored, the way I was pitching, if I just let the defense do their work, I ...
NY food stamp recipients are shipping welfare-funded groceries to relatives in Jamaica Dominican Republic and Haiti
EXCLUSIVE Food stamps are paying for trans-Atlantic takeout - with New Yorkers using taxpayer-funded benefits to ship food to relatives in Jamaica, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.Welfare recipients are buying groceries with their Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards and packing them in giant barrels for the trip overseas, The Post found.The practice is so common that hundreds of 45- to ...
4 held in Caribbean coke bust carried out by armed Coast Guard helicopter
Crew members from the Coast Guard Cutter Robert J. Yered offload and guard 2,300 pounds of cocaine at Coast Guard Base Miami Beach, Fla., on July 20, 2013. The seized cocaine, worth an estimated $35 million, was found aboard a go-fast vessel in the Caribbean Sea on July 14, ...
This strange call from Jamaica on Caricom
Last week, for instance, Jamaica?s parliamentary opposition leader, Andrew Holness, felt compelled to publicly call for his country to suspend its membership of Caricom until growing trade-related disputes could be satisfactorily resolved-more urgently with Trinidad and ...
Panama crushes 10-man Cuba to make Gold Cup semis
Panama beat 10-man Cuba 6-1 in the Gold Cup quarterfinals on Saturday. Panama, which has three wins and a draw in the Gold Cup, advanced to the semifinals next week in Dallas. Gabriel Torres' penalty kick in the 25th minute leveled the score, and his second goal gave Panama the lead for good 13 minutes later. Torres has five goals in four Gold Cup games. Cuba played a man down and gave ...
Cultural festivals bring tastes and sounds of Haiti Lebanon Egypt to Ottawa
OTTAWA -- Wyclef Jean may not have been there, but it didn't stop revellers at Ottawa's Haitian festival from partying Saturday.While festival goers may have been surprised and disappointed the superstar and Grammy Award-winning rapper wasn't to perform as a "special guest" of protg Haitian Fresh, they said they had no intentions of letting it get in the way of a good ...
8 bodies found in Bahamas
Authorities in the Bahamas say they have found the bodies of eight people and a sunken boat near a beach in Grand Bahama island.Police say they believe the victims, including a young boy, were migrants trying to reach the United States. All appear to have drowned, but officials say the cause of death hasn't been confirmed.Officials say six bodies were found on Friday at Holmes Rock and two ...
ExcerptsHizbollah behind Burgas bombing. Cuba delegates to Maccabiah
Excerpts:Hizbollah behind Burgas bombing. Cuba delegates to Maccabiah Games 19 July 2013 +++SOURCE: Jordan Times 19 ...
Bahamas police find sunken boat and 8 dead people believed to be migrants trying to reach US
Authorities in the Bahamas say they have found the bodies of eight people and a sunken boat near a beach in Grand Bahama island. Police say they believe the victims, including a young boy, were migrants trying to reach the United States. All appear to have drowned, but officials say the cause of death hasn't been confirmed. Officials say six bodies were found Friday at Holmes Rock and two ...
Puerto Rico judge issues ruling in high-profile murder case
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A judge in Puerto Rico has ruled the island is too small to justify moving a high-profile murder trial involving the son of a U.S. federal court judge to another location in the territory. An attorney for Pablo Casellas Toro has said that negative publicity about the case could influence its outcome. Casellas is charged with killing his wife last year at their upscale ...
Cuba told Panama that NK ship carrying sugar official
PANAMA CITY/MIAMI -- When a North Korean ship carrying Cuban arms was seized last week in Panama on suspicion of smuggling drugs, Cuba first said it was loaded with sugar for the people of North Korea, according to a Panamanian official familiar with the ...
Coast Guard intercepts large cocaine shipment in central Caribbean waters
Mario G. Gil, an official with the U.S. Coast Guard, informs the media about the seizure of over 2,300 pounds of cocaine with a street value of about $35 million on Saturday July 20, 2013. The drugs were seized from a high speed boat driven by four suspects who are currently detained by the federal authorities in ...
Fidel Castros Works for the First Time in Vietnam
Por By Hugo Rius Blein Ho Chi Minh City, Jul 20 (Prensa Latina) Undying themselves, two major works of Fidel Castro, unique copies printed on a weather-proof paper, received here today the Ambassador of Cuba in Vietnam Fredesman Turro on the occasion of 60th anniversary of the the assault on the Moncada barracks. Especially dedicated to its author, Strategic Victory and Strategic ...
Executives Criticize Hiring In Cuba Agriculture
Havana, Jul 20 (Prensa Latina) The imposition of clauses in conclusion of contracts of sales with producers, is among the shortcoming remaining today in Cuban agriculture, despite of the progresses in that field, agreed several executives. Marketing Director of the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAG), Jose Puente, and specialists Teresa Suarez and Jose Padron, reported to the press details of ...
Jamaica to put up billboards help find missing children
KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica's government plans to set up electronic billboards to help find missing and abducted children on an island where violence against children is a growing concern. The Office of the Children's Registry said Friday that billboards will be installed in the upcoming months in cities including Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho Rios and Spanish Town. There are currently ...
Renewed call for govt to refuse Nygard?s land application
The Coalition to Save Clifton believes that the government does not need an environmental assessment of Clifton Bay and reissued calls for Cabinet to reject an application by Lyford Cay resident Peter Nygard for a lease of Crown land in the area. Earlier this week, Prime Minister Perry Christie told reporters that he "intervened" in the conflict between Nygard and his billionaire ...
Nearly $4 mil allocated for school repairs
The government has spent just over $3.8 million on school repairs, which are already underway and expected to be completed before the start of the new term, Minister of Education, Science and Technology Jerome Fitzgerald said. Just over $3 million of that accounts for school repairs on New Providence, and another $800,000 for schools on the Family Islands. "We have collected all of the ...
Prosecution closes case in 1999 murder trial
The prosecution has closed its case against three men accused of the murder of a policeman and the attempted murder of another. Stephen Stubbs, Andrew 'Yogi' Davis and Clinton 'Russ' Evans have denied prosecutors' claims that they are responsible for the 1999 shooting death of DC Jimmy Ambrose and the attempted murder of his partner Constable Marcian Scott at the ...
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