Month: April 2011

April 19, 2011

Martial Arts Comedy Wins At Hong Kong Film Festival

Hong Kong's 30th annual film festival gave its top honor Sunday to a comic action fantasy about an old martial arts master who wakes up from a decades-long coma. Gallants, a low-budget film that makes a humorous homage to Hong Kong kung-fu movies…

April 19, 2011

Cuban Communist Party Approves Sweeping Reforms

Cuban state-run media report that the nation's Communist Party has approved sweeping economic reforms and voted…

April 19, 2011

Trinidad PM calls for unity

Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar has called on citizens to unite and work together in the best interest and development of the country. Speaking at the Hanuman Jayanti celebrations at the Divali Nagar site in Chaguanas,…

April 19, 2011

More than $2 Million In Drugs Found in the Bahamas

The most recent incident took place on Saturday morning around 11 after officers of the force's Mobile Division searched a home on Montgomery Street, located off Carmichael Road. During their search, officers found two packages of suspected…

April 19, 2011

2 000 Caribbean criminals deported

The United States has deported more than 2, 000 criminals back to the Caribbean in the past six months, according to figures released by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The figures show that from the start of the 2011 fiscal…

April 19, 2011

New visa requirements

Nationals of Guyana and Jamaica now require visas to enter St. Maarten and Aruba, the Ministry of Justice here said today. “Please be advised that on April 11, 2011 visa requirements for nationals of Guyana and Jamaica, visiting St. Maarten, went…

April 19, 2011

Nigerian President Reelected, Violence in North Continues

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has won reelection in a vote that has sparked rioting in…

April 19, 2011

Libyan Pro-Government Shelling Continues as UN Peace Call Ignored

As government shelling continued in a besieged city in western Libya, a United Nations call for a cease-fire went unheeded on Monday. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his top humanitarian envoy Valerie Amos on Monday expressed deep concern…

April 19, 2011

81 Wounded in Northern Iraq Protests

Medical officials in northern Iraq say at least 81 people were wounded in the northern Kurdish region Monday, during a second straight day of clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesting official corruption and a lack of basic…

April 19, 2011

Pakistani PM Urges End to US Drone Strikes

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is calling for an end to U.S. drone strikes, saying the United States should share intelligence information so Pakistan can take action against terrorists on its own soil. Mr. Gilani made the remarks…