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H E A D L I N E S Last
updated: Wednesday, April 4, 2007, 4:15pm
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US
President to Meet with Caribbean Heads |
| Monday,
April 2, 2007 |
United
States President George W. Bush and Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice will meet with
the fifteen Heads of State and Foreign
Ministers of Caribbean islands at the first-ever
Conference on the Caribbean which will
take place in Washington, DC from June
19-21, 2007.
[FULL
STORY]
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ICC
Cricket World Cup gets Underway
with Spectacular Opening Ceremony |
| Sunday,
April 1, 2007 |
The
ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 got underway on Sunday
March 11, with a lavish and spectacular opening ceremony
at the picturesque Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium
in Western Jamaica. A massive crowd, which included
heads of state and governments across the region,
ICC officials, and visitors to the island, were on
hand to witness the highly entertaining and clourful
ceremony, which was historic in scope, as it marked
the first time that the prestigious CWC was being
staged in the region.
[FULL
STORY]
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Jamaica/
Venezuela Sign LNG MOU
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| Sunday,
April 1, 2007 |
Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez made a three-hour working visit
to Jamaica on Monday March 12, during which he held
discussions with Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller
on a range of bilateral, trade, cultural and economic
matters. The two leaders signed a Memorandum of Understanding
covering the supply of 150M cu. Ft. of Liquefied Natural
Gas (LNG) per day to Jamaica, to facilitate the expansion
of power generation and the bauxite alumina sector.
[FULL
STORY] |
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Jamaican-Born
Pilot on Historic
Round
the World Flight
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| Sunday,
April 1, 2007 |
Barrington
Irving, age 23, became the first African American and
the youngest person ever to fly solo around the world.
Irving took off from Miami in a single-engine aircraft
at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, March 23rd. In his Lancair
Columbia 400, the veritable Ferrari of small aircraft,
Irving
traversed four continents over the next 5-6 weeks,
clocking 130 hours of flight time. His "World
Flight Adventure" took him to 23 locales including
the Azores, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Dubai, Hong Kong,
Thailand, Taiwan, and Japan before returning him to
the U.S. via Alaska.
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STORY] |
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