CaribWorldNews, GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Weds. July 15, 2009: Guyana and Venezuela are set to resume discussions on their long-standing border dispute soon. That`s according to Elizabeth Harper, the director general of the Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The news comes after a meeting last week between Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodríguez, and her Venezuelan counterpart Nicolas Maduro. Bilateral ...
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Bahamas Seeks To Privatize Telecommunications Company
CaribWorldNews, NASSAU, Bahamas, Weds. July 15, 2009: The Bahamas government is looking for a buyer for its Bahamas Telecommunications Company Ltd. In an advertisement published Tuesday in several domestic and international publications, the government said it is seeking to sell a 51 percent stake in company, which currently provides services to over 334,000 wireless customers, 132,000 fixed line and ...
Read More »St. Kitts AG Lawyers Force Recusal Of St. Kitts High Court Judge
CaribWorldNews, BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Weds. July 15, 2009: A complaint filed against a St. Kitts judge hearing the heated boundary case in the Federation has resulted in the judge`s recusal. A notice of application for the recusal order filed on Tuesday by lawyers for the Attorney General and the Constituency Boundaries Commission on Tuesday cited several grounds for the requested ...
Read More »Cuba, U.S. Sit Down To Talk Migration
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. July 15, 2009: For the first time since 2003, U.S. and Cuban officials got together yesterday to talk migration. The issue, which is one of contention for the Cuban authorities, given the U.S` `wet foot, dry land` policy, saw Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Dagoberto Rodriguez and U.S. State Department officials, headed by Principal Deputy ...
Read More »Republican Chair Insists Members Questioning Of Sotomayor Is Not `Anti-Hispanic`
CaribWorldNews, NEW YORK, NY, Weds. July 15, 2009: Even as some began questioning whether Republican senators questioning of Sonia Sotomayor`s `wise Latina` comment could further alienate the Hispanic bloc from the party, Republican National Committee chairman, Michael Steele, insists there is nothing biased in the hearings. `It is not anti-Hispanic, it is not anti-Sotomayor,` he told CBS News yesterday, ...
Read More »Michael Jackson`s Caribbean-Born Doctor Could Be Charged
CaribWorldNews, LOS ANGELES, CA, Weds. July 15, 2009: Dr. Conrad Murray, the Caribbean-born doctor believed to have been the last person to see Michael Jackson alive, could face a criminal investigation for manslaughter. Reports indicate that five doctors, including Murray, are being investigated and whoever provided the prescription drugs which resulted in Jackson`s death, may face criminal charges. Murray was actually born ...
Read More »Jamaica Registers Double Digit Decline In Remittance
CaribWorldNews, WASHINGTON, D.C., Tues. July 14, 2009: Jamaica has registered a significant drop in money transfers or remittances to the island, a new World Bank report said Monday. The report, titled ` Outlook for Remittance Flows 2009-2011,` said the 2009 year-to-date period show Jamaica registering a whopping 17 percent decline in remittances, the biggest drop for any Latin American and ...
Read More »Michael Jackson And Race: He Negrefied American Pop Culture Without Using The Term Black
Commentary By David Hinds CaribWorldNews, PHONEIX, Arizona, Tues. July 14, 2009: In life Michael Jackson avoided, at least publicly, the issues of race and racism. But his death ironically has been a sobering reminder that race and racism are very much alive in America. There are three things about race that is often lost on the casual observer. First, race ...
Read More »Smugglers Who Held Cuban Nationals For Ransom Jailed
CaribWorldNews, MIAMI, FL, Tues. July 14, 2009: Five migrant smugglers from Miami will spend the next two and one-half to five years in federal prison for alien smuggling for ransom. Nelson Martinez Almeida, 27, Rudivaldo Mojena, 29, Juliet Toledo Duartes, 32, Ricardo Mojena Velazquez, 31, and Lazaro Martinez Munoz, 45, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul C. Huck after ...
Read More »St. Vincent Cops Placed On Leave In `Brutality` Case
CaribWorldNews, KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tues. July 14, 2009: Four cops in St. Vincent and the Grenadines were on Monday placed on administrative leave after being charged with using excessive force to restrain two teenage robbery suspects. The four officers, two corporals and two constables, have been charged with assault and causing grievous bodily harm to two ...
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