Tuesday August 9th 2011 Former Minister of Sports and the New National Party shadow minister of Sports Hon. Roland Bhola congratulates our star athlete Mr. Kirani James for wining the 400 meters in Aviva London Grand Prix atCrystalPalace in a world leading time of 44.61 seconds. His achievement at this tender […]
Caribbean News and Sports
SAINT LUCIA IN TALKS WITH REDjet
CASTRIES, Saint Lucia (August 8, 2011) – Saint Lucia may soon benefit from a new air service link with South and Central America on low cost intra-regional carrier REDjet.
Appeal for greater steelbands’ support
St. George’s, August 7, 2011 – A local politician has said that Grenada steelbands, whose members are overwhelmingly youth in their teens and early twenties, deserve greater public support.
Trinidad Government Minister is special Spicemas Guest
St. George’s, August 5, 2011 – Trinidad and Tobago’s Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism has pledged to continue doing his utmost to assist the government and people of Grenada. “Anything I can do within my capability, I will do for Grenada,’’ Winston Peters said Friday morning shortly arriving in Grenada […]
African Heritage Celebrated
St. George’s, August 4, 2011 – The President of the St. Andrew’s Development Organization (SADO), Martha Bowen, has reminded Grenadians of the importance of celebrating their African heritage.
ECCO PAYS $¼ MILLION IN ROYALTIES TO MEMBERS
In what is being heralded as a milestone achievement by the small regional Collective Management Organization, the Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO) Inc. will on Friday 5th August 2011, distribute royalties to its members and members of affiliated societies around the world for performances of their music […]
Jr Calypso Monarch merge with Intercol Soca Monarch
Due to the inclement weather on Saturday, the Junior Calypso Monarch competition was postponed. The CCF Committee and the Ministry of Culture has agreed to merge the Junior Calypso with the Intercol Soca Monarch Competition this afternoon at the Grenada National Stadium.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A Caribbean Airlines jet with 163 passengers on board from New York touched down on rainy runway, then slid through a chain-link fence and broke apart just short of a ravine on Saturday in Guyana. Miraculously there were no immediate reports of death, despite several dozen of […]
Early HIV planning work saving the lives of Jamaican children
Tracy Evans-Gilbert (With stethescope around her neck) and her Teamat the Cornwall Regional Hospitals Paediatric HIV Clini By: Andrea Downer, Journalist Kingston, Jamaica. July 29, 2011- The recent 31% decline in the number of pediatric deaths in Jamaican children announced by Minister of Health, Rudyard Spencer is not a surprise […]
Labour Minister says there should be no workplace discrimination
St. George’s, July 29, 2011 (GIS) – Labour Minister Glynis Roberts has said that a collaborative approach is required in dealing with workers known to be infected with HIV or AIDS.
FIREARM AND AMMUNITION CHARGES LAID
— Alister Stanisclaus 31 years old Businessman and Andy John 28 years old Farmer have been charged for the offense of possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition.
Cultural industry specialist impressed with Jab Jab, Spicemas branding
St. George’s, July 28, 2011 – One of the Caribbean’s foremost experts on the region’s cultural industry has highly commended the branding of Spicemas, saying there is nothing like Grenada’s Jab Jab.
FORMER FINANCE MINISTER SAYS REVIEW POSTPONEMENT IS A BIG JOKE
St. George’s, Grenada – July 28, 2011 – St. George’s, Grenada: Former Minister of Finance Sen. the Hon. Anthony Boatswain says there is only one reason why the Government of Grenada would postpone the second review of the country’s Extended Credit Facility (ECF); and that is because it has failed […]
POLICE DONATES TO SECONDARY SCHOOL FIRST TIMERS
The Royal Grenada Police Force will pay out just under 30-thousand dollars in grant to Secondary School first timers.
CHILD DIES IN HOUSE FIRE
A late evening fire in St. Andrew’s on Tuesday 26th July 2011 has left the community of Post Royal in mourning as an eight month old baby girl lost her life tragically.
