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PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba, Mar (IPS)  – Activism against AIDS is uniting a group of transvestites and crossdressers in western Cuba in a project that is going beyond peer education and making inroads into the world of culture.

March 24, 2008 – On Sunday, June 8, 2008 at the Raymond Bourque Arena, 2345 Thimens in Ville St. Laurent, from 1:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., experience the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of the Caribbean without leaving Montreal. 

NEW YORK (March 22, 2008) – This June’s Annual Caribbean Tourism Summit (ACTS) in Washington DC from June 21 to 24 is not only the first such meeting, it also represents the new spirit of collaboration between the Caribbean’s public and private sectors.

Farmers in Haiti have become the accidental victims of US imports and international aid as food writer Stefan Gates explains. I was travelling by pick-up truck to a village deep in the Haitian Artibonite Valley to learn how people survive in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere.

The GTEP Planning Committee wishes to inform the General Public that it is extremely pleased with the response from a wide cross section of citizens who have shown interest in the GTEP Programme that was officially launched by the Prime Minister on February 14, 2008.

Prime Minister Patrick Manning is categorically denying allegations previously made against him by Angela Nelson, a Trinidad-born resident of North Carolina. The Prime Minister’s denial came in a letter from his attorney, Michael Quamina, which was faxed to the Guardian yesterday at 3.39 pm.

LIAT pilots are refusing to be based in Trinidad because of the increasing criminal activity in the country.  So says Michael Blackburn, chairman of the Leeward Islands Pilots Association.

NEW YORK (March 15, 2008) – The prophets of doom and gloom are getting a jolting revelation following a landmark decision by Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government to elevate tourism to the top of their agenda.

The United States State Department has released a report indicating that it’s keeping a close eye on a number of Caribbean states where large amounts of money are being laundered.The 2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report just released by the Department pointed to a number of countries that are ‘jurisdictions […]

The grandson of two Caribbean nationals is posed to become the new governor of New York following Wednesday’s resignation of Governor Eliot Spitzer. Lieutenant Governor David A. Paterson (Born May 20, 1954) will be sworn in on Monday March 17 as New York‘s 55th governor; the first African American and the […]

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Addressing members of his Unity Labour Party (ULP), at a political rally last week, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves urged his supporters to come out and give the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, “a warm Vincentian welcome.”

The West Indies cricket selectors have named the 15-man squad for first Test match against Sri Lanka which bowls off on Saturday, March 22 in Guyana.

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: No grounds for judicial review, said Justice Gertel Thom on Tuesday morning, dismissing an application for judicial review by lawyers representing a female police officer who filed court documents stating that Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves indecently assaulted and raped her on January 3, 2008.

NEW YORK (March 11, 2008) – A Caribbean-American brand specialist is assessing the Barbados government’s reported drive to attract more international hotel brands to the island.

Just hours after welcoming his mother back to Trinidad from New York, a 27-year-old man was killed in front of her during a botched robbery at a Sangre Grande bar just after midnight on Sunday.