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Antigua Sun : "Hotel worker stabbed to death by Nikisha Smith The young man who was stabbed to death on the Herbert’s Main Road last Friday has been identified as 22-year-old Ed Hyman of Jamaica and his mother said he did not belong to any gang. "

Jamaica Gleaner News - PNP returns cash - Trafigura saga comes to an end - Tuesday | February 27, 2007 : "The Trafigura Beheer debacle has come to an end, exactly 142 days after Prime Minister and president of the People's National Party (PNP), Portia Simpson Miller, pledged that the $31 million so-called donation from the Dutch oil trader to the party would be returned."

Jamaica Gleaner News - Spring breakers shun Jamaica - Sunday | February 25, 2007 : "Yesterday, the first set of spring breakers arrived at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay. But, unlike previous years, there was no welcome reception for the college students who up to six years ago, were 25,000 strong in numbers, but are expected to number about 5,000 this season - down from approximately 10,000 last year."

FROM THE REGION - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM : "PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) - A moderate earthquake shook the southern Caribbean yesterday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries."

St. Lucia Celebrates Independence | World Latest | Guardian Unlimited : "CASTRIES, St. Lucia (AP) - Thousands of cheering islanders lined the streets of St. Lucia's capital Thursday as children danced and sang patriotic songs to celebrate the Caribbean island's independence from Britain 28 years ago. "

SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Aristide says he will return to Haiti 'once conditions are right' : "PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Haiti's ousted former president, said he will return to the Caribbean nation “once the conditions are right” but has no plans to go back into government. "

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt : : "A tip-off on Carnival Monday afternoon led police officers to the cargo hold of a Caribbean Airlines Flight 600. Cocaine valued at TT $5.3M was found cleverly concealed in vegetable crates of carailli bound for Canada. "

Cricket World Cup will boost Caribbean economies — Antigua PM - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM : "Caribbean nations will reap lasting economic benefits from staging the Cricket World Cup, according to Winston Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda."

: "It has been revealed that the state-run Sugar Company of Jamaica (SCJ) has racked up more than four billion dollars in operational losses over the past five years. "

Stabroek News : "The Guyana Consulate in Barbados says it is hosting a meeting to allow Barbados institutions to inform Guyanese nationals working on the island about the new measures and policies that it has instituted. "

Stabroek News : "Gold miner chopped to death in row over woman Tuesday, February 20th 2007 A Bartica gold miner was on Sunday morning brutally chopped to death after a row over a woman turned violent in the Papa Road, Arimu Backdam, Cuyuni River. Dead is Oswald Joris called 'Buns' of First Avenue Bartica"

Caribbean Net News |MIAMI, USA (AFP): The Bahamian immigration minister has resigned after pictures showed him embracing Anna Nicole Smith, but he angrily denied he had any sexual relationship with the Playboy model before her death.

Jamaica Gleaner News - Guns for meat: Jamaicans, Haitians in 'strange' trade-off - Possible link to rise in praedial larceny - Tuesday February 20, 2007 : "The drugs-for-gun trade between Jamaica and Haiti has taken a strange twist with so-called Jamaican fishermen now exchanging animal carcasses with their Haitian counterparts for high-powered weapons, according to the police. "

Jamaica Gleaner News - Witness killed in drive-by shooting - Monday February 19, 2007 : "A 36-year-old man who was scheduled to appear as a witness in the Half-Way Tree Court this morning, was shot dead by unknown assailant(s) in Old Harbour Bay, St. Catherine, yesterday afternoon. "

The Nation Newspaper Caribbean eyes on ethanol from sugar cane : "IS THERE RENEWED VIGOUR in recent years after the dramatic decline, some say near-death, of the sugar-cane industry in Barbados and most parts of the Caribbean? "

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt : : "WEST INDIES cricket captain and star batsman Brian Charles Lara “bigged up” the Rastafarian movement when he sang a song defending the Ras at Rapso Explosion at the National Library on Abercromby Street in Port-of-Spain on Tuesday night."

Jamaica Gleaner News - Husband hangs self after beheading wife - Friday February 16, 2007 : "The lifeless body of Hugh Wright, 38, was found hanging from a mango tree yesterday morning, hours after he hacked his wife, Natalie to death in the presence of several children at her home in Glengoffe, St. Catherine."

BBCCaribbean.com British minister says sorry for slavery : "A British government minister is caught in a political storm after issuing an apology for the slave trade."

Caribbean Net News |WASHINGTON, USA (Reuters): Even a small rise in the world's sea levels, predicted as a result of global warming, could make environmental refugees of people in some Caribbean countries, a World Bank economist said on Tuesday.

Stabroek News |Pandemonium broke out at the St Gabriel's Primary School yesterday morning when a cutlass-wielding man went looking for a teacher who had earlier put him out of the school compound because of his attire.

Stabroek News |Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan yesterday granted bail to a minor while three persons were remanded to prison after pleading not guilty to charges of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Caribbean Net News |KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: There could be a break-through in the dispute between the Starbroek News newspaper of Guyana and the government, over the Guyanese government’s decision to reduce advertisements to the newspaper.

Hardbeat News |US Coast Guard officials say their crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Tahoma, working as part of the Caribbean Corridor Initiative, made the bust aboard a ...

Stabroek News |A policeman died yesterday after being shot several times during the Carib Soca Monarch contest in New Amsterdam causing panic and pandemonium and his alleged assailant was hit several times by a licensed firearm holder while attempting to flee.

Antigua Sun |Bangladesh, Bermuda and Canada will take part in a triangular series in Antigua later this month to prepare for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007.

Cayman Net News |ST GEORGE'S, Grenada: A major strike is being threatened by workers at the Consolidated Contractors Company (CCC) in Grenada, which could hamper the country's preparations for next month's Cricket World Cup 2007.

Jamaica Gleaner |BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC): The Ministry of Education here has mandated primary and secondary school principals to rigidly enforce a ban on the use of cellular phones by students while at education institutions.

Trinidad Newsday |THE Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London yesterday quashed the death sentences imposed on Bernard Coard and 13 others for the murders of Grenada Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and ten others in a bloody coup in Grenada in October 1983.

Antigua Sun |A 26-year-old man appears to have become Antigua & Barbuda's first homicide for 2007.Jervis James was shot and killed in St. Johnston's Village last night in the area of Rawlins' supermarket.

Stabroek News |Agricola resident Richard 'Chucky' Daniels, wanted in connection with the assassination of Agriculture Minister Satyadeow `Sash' Sawh, is believed to have been arrested in Suriname last week along with another Guyanese, Acting Police Commissioner, Henry Greene has said.

Jamaica Observer |BOG WALK, St Catherine - Shock and disbelief gripped residents of the sleepy community of Thirteen Lane in Bog Walk, St Catherine yesterday after five men were killed execution style by a gunman at a gambling shed there in the dead of night.

Stabroek News |Custom officers at Coventry Airport, England on Monday discovered 30,000 pounds sterling worth of cocaine hidden inside more than 140 prunes that had arrived from Guyana.

Al Jazeera English - Sport : " Indian police have accused West Indian all-rounder Marlon Samuels of dealing with a bookmaker during last month's four-match one-day series in India, alleging the player revealed important team information during the first match in Nagpur ."

Cayman Net News |The Cayman Islands’ only all-Caribbean radio station Hot 104.1 FM celebrated music legend Bob Marley’s birthday on Tuesday, 6 February, with a 24-hour tribute. For one day, Hot 104.1 FM changed its name to Bob 104.1 FM, and for 24 hours straight, the station played nothing but music by Bob Marley.

Plane crashes in Caribbean: World: News: News24 : "Providenciales, Turks And Caicos - A small charter plane reportedly carrying six people crashed in the Caribbean between two islands in the Turks and Caicos, officials said. "

Antigua Sun : "Plans to have at least five ships, to be used as floating hotels docked in the St. John’s Harbour during the Cricket World Cup are still in the pipeline, but the number has now been reduced, the Antigua Sun has learned. "

Jamaica Gleaner News - Air Jamaica and the slave-trade mentality - Tuesday | February 6, 2007 : "Air Jamaica has lost billions on the traditional routes and there needs to be thinking outside the box. The slave-trade mentality comprises a triangle, involving Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, which benefits Europe mainly and needs European support. "

Stabroek News : "The Trinidad Express is advising President Bharrat Jagdeo not to tilt his administration in any direction that is going to attract comparisons with the Forbes Burnham regime during the mid-sixties and mid-eighties. "

MWC News - A Site Without Borders - - Apology over China anthem mix-up : "The Caribbean nation of Grenada has apologised to China after a police band mistakenly played the Taiwan anthem during the inauguration of a cricket stadium built with funds from Beijing."

Caribbean Net News: Magnitude 6.1 earthquake hits eastern Caribbean : "MIAMI, USA (Reuters): A strong earthquake struck the eastern Caribbean on Sunday afternoon, according to the US Geological Survey's National Earthquake Information Center. "

Jamaica Gleaner News - DIRTY MONEY - Cops eye financiers in Haiti/Jamaica gun, drug trade - Saturday | February 3, 2007 : "Several business interests who are believed to be responsible for the financing of the massive guns-for-drugs smuggling ring between Caribbean neighbours Jamaica and Haiti are being targeted by Operation Kingfish. "

Advocate : "ANOTHER major step has been created in the move towards full Caribbean integration and this deepening should continue. That view has come from CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin W. Carrington, who was speaking on the occasion of the inauguration of the Single Domestic Space. "

The Hindu News Update Service : "Bridgetown (Barbados), Feb 2. (AP): Ticket sales for this year's cricket World Cup in the Caribbean have surpassed the previous tournament in South Africa, officials said on Wednesday. "