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The Bahamas celebrates Caribbean Wellness Day

Posted by CaribShout on September 21, 2009 at 6:29pm in Health

The Bahamas joined the rest of the Caribbean on Saturday, September 12 in celebrating Caribbean Wellness Day under the theme: “Love My Body”. Pictured viewing local produce on display a the Ministry of Health on Meeting Street are Camille Johnson, P

Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte open Havana film office

Posted by CaribShout on September 21, 2009 at 6:00pm

HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) -- American artistes Harry Belafonte and Danny Glover inaugurated on Friday the Havana office of the traveling Caribbean film festival, which is celebrating its second edition. The opening of a venue of this project that includes

OAS member states hail Inter-American mission to Haiti as a major success

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 6:25pm

WASHINGTON, USA -- The OAS Permanent Council on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the inter-American mission to Haiti which took place September 3-6, and praised the leadership of the Chairman of the Haiti Task Force and the Haiti group of Friend

Large turnout at Independence Parade

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 6:16pm

BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – WITH their usual display of precision drills, skill and discipline, members of Federation’s armed and St. Kitts’ unarmed units executed a brilliant Ceremonial Parade earlier today in commemoration of the country’s 26th year

Unique methods used to smuggle drugs into jails

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 6:11pm

Marlon Vickerman and Rasbert Turner, STAR Writers A brazen woman who padded the Sunday dinner for an inmate at the Constant Spring Police Station with ganja, Rizzla (rolling paper) and a lighter ended up becoming a prisoner herself after police disc

Cayman, UK at loggerheads

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 5:48pm

The governments of the UK and the Cayman Islands remain far apart over how to handle the British territory's fiscal crisis. The leader of the Cayman Islands government, McKeeva Bush has told BBC Caribbean that he will not accept British suggestions

Volunteers pick up several thousand pounds of trash and recyclables from Hellshire public beach.

Posted by Delroy A. Whyte-Hall on September 20, 2009 at 5:04pm

By Delroy A. Whyte-HallFreelance Writer/BloggerOn Saturday, September 19th, from 8:00am till 12 noon, over 500 volunteers from Kingston and St. Catherine took action to rid the Half Moon Public Beach at Hellshire in St. Catherine of unsightly and har

Cuba rocks to huge peace concert

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 5:00pm

Hundreds of thousands packed into central Havana for Cuba's biggest open air concert since the 1959 revolution. Havana is hosting the biggest open-air concert since the 1959 revolution, featuring some 15 top Latin American, Spanish and Cuban perfor

Lawyers rapped

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 4:30pm

Concerns have been raised over a lack of professionalism by some lawyers practicing in the Eastern Caribbean. This has led to further calls for specific laws governing their conduct. The Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Hugh Raw

USAIN BOLT 9.58 SuperParty- For Fun, Charity and Celebration

Posted by Paula-Anne Porter Jones on September 20, 2009 at 12:13pm

Sep 20, 2009 -Kingston, Jamaica:Usain Bolt and his management team have announced that they will host a two day series of activities ending with a one-of-a-kind SuperParty, December 4-5, 2009.“We want to achieve several objectives”, outlined Norman P

Hype TV Top 20 Singles Chart - Sept 18 - 24, 2009

Posted by Paula-Anne Porter Jones on September 20, 2009 at 12:08pm

Hype TV Top 20 Singles Chartwww.hypetvjam.comSeptember 18th – September 24th, 2009TW LW WOC ARTISTE - TITLE - LABEL - Peak Position01 02 11 Queen Ifrica – Lioness On The Rise – Penthouse-1wk@102 06 07 G Whizz – My Life – TJ Records- Greatest Gainer u

Passion, perfection and taking care of your body are Foster Hylton’s secrets

Posted by CaribShout on September 20, 2009 at 1:42am

One year has brought quite a change in the fortunes of Jamaica's Brigitte Foster-Hylton. Fifth place and $5000 at the 2008 IAAF / VTB Bank World Athletics Final turned into first place and U$30,000 in Thessaloniki 2009, and the 34-year-old was one

Bermuda Triangle plane mystery 'solved'

Posted by CaribShout on September 19, 2009 at 12:07am

Two of the so-called Bermuda Triangle's most mysterious disappearances in the late 1940s may have been solved. Scores of ships and planes are said to have vanished without trace over the decades in a vast triangular area of ocean with imaginary poi

RESIDENTS CHASE AND BEAT GHOSTS - Spirits accused of causing terror and possessing children

Posted by Troy Porter on September 17, 2009 at 1:23pm

For the last four weeks, residents of Flint River in St Mary, have been waging a war. They have being fighting against duppies that have invaded their community, terrorising residents and possessing children. An army of ghosts, THE STAR was told, ha

Six quit Bermuda's opposition; plan to form new party

Posted by CaribShout on September 14, 2009 at 7:26pm

HAMILTON, Bermuda, September 14, 2009 - Six members of the opposition United Bermuda Party (UBP) - including three parliamentarians, one Senator, the party's chairman and former deputy chair - have severed ties with the party and are planning to form

Possible 'beginning of the end' to Montserrat volcano eruptions

Posted by CaribShout on September 14, 2009 at 7:00pm

BRADES, Montserrat: The volcano has had a quiet six months since the last report and there was no extrusion of new lava and no explosions in that period. Surface activity was restricted to rockfalls and occasional small pyroclastic flows from the do

Producer and composer Quincy Jones announces his 'Friends' for Bermuda Music Festival

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 10:09pm

LOS ANGELES, USA -- Legendary producer & composer Quincy Jones (or "Q" as he has come to be known amongst fans and friends alike) and boxing-turned-entertainment promoter Rock Newman this week unveiled the growing group of award-winning musicians tha

St Vincent ponders change to republic

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 9:47pm

Ralph Gonsalves wants a 'home-grown' constitution Guyana, Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago among Commonwealth Caribbean nations have done it. Now St Vincent and the Grenadines is being asked to follow suit and ditch Queen Elizabeth of Britain as th

Recession hits remittances

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 9:30pm

A report commissioned by the BBC says as migrants have faced rising unemployment, remittance flows have slowed more broadly. The document by the UK-based Migration Policy Institute deals with the effects of the global economic crisis on migration an

Caribbean improves business climate

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 9:30pm

Two reports this week cast a light on the climate for doing business in the Caribbean and the evidence suggests an improving picture. Both the World Bank and the World Economic Forum both issued their assessments of how countries around the world ar