CUBA - Gov't woos investors with slick oil, LNG tour
SANTA CRUZ DEL NORTE, Cuba (AP):Cuban officials courted foreign geologists and petroleum experts during a tour of the island's oil and natural gas works on Saturday in hopes of sparking more international interest in investment...
BARBADOS - Security beef-up for CWC sportsmen
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC):The Regional Security Force could be used to beef up security at hotels hosting Cricket World Cup (CWC) teams, the Nation newspaper reported yesterday.Venues, including stadia and hotels...
14-y-o shot because she spurned boy
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): Police here are hunting for a 17-year-old young man who shot a 14-year-old girl Friday after she spurned his advances.Donnis King of East Bank Demerara was rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital and admitted to the High...
Gangs giving up the guns
UNITED NATIONS (CMC):The United Nations says some of the most notorious armed gangs in Haiti are handing over their weapons following a UN-backed crackdown on crime in Cit? Soleil - one of the violence-ridden country's most dangerous areas.
Schoolgirl facing manslaughter rap
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC): A schoolgirl is to stand trial for manslaughter in connection with the stabbing death of a woman over a year ago. A magistrate ruled Friday that there was not sufficient evidence to support a charge of murder but...
Havana's former grandeur crumbling
HAVANA (Reuters): ALMOST HALF a century of communist rule has saved Havana's eclectic architecture from the urban developer's bulldozer, but a lack of repair has taken a ruinous toll on its neo-Baroque and Art Deco gems. Dozens of colonial buildings...
Prison riot fails to spoil cricket
BASSETERRE, St.Kitts (Reuters): ONE WARDER and several inmates were injured in clashes on Saturday as security forces quelled a prison riot just 400 metres from Warner Park, which hosted a Cricket World Cup match. The uprising, which passed unnoticed by the bumper crowd...
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