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  • Grenada seeks to reduce power bills through pilot program

    ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada - A small, rural community on the island of Grenada is being targeted in an international pilot program to help reduce power bills and save energy. The roughly 400 residents of the impoverished village of Telescope will receive energy-saving light bulbs in exchange for the bulbs they are currently using. Grenada Senior Energy Officer John Ogiste said Saturday that ...

  • Wright sets the LPGA pace in rainy Bahamas

    Lindsey Wright didn't realize she finished with six straight 3s on her scorecard. She couldn't name the holes where she made her seven birdies on Saturday. She only knew she played some pretty good golf in the Bahamas LPGA ...

  • OAU Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary With Music Caribbean Thinking

    Addis Ababa, May 25 (Prensa Latina) A rhythmic reggae of Peter Tosh and evocations to the mythical Bob Marley gave a Caribbean tone to the celebration today of the Africa Day, marked by a call for unity between the Diaspora and the continent. The president of the African Union Commission (AU), Nkoosazana Dlamini Zuma, seemed to have been dancing from his seat, as several head of States and ...

  • US vice-president to travel to Trinidad talk about trade drug trafficking security issues

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden is expected to talk about trade, drug trafficking and security issues as he travels to the island of Trinidad next week to meet with Caribbean leaders. U.S. Embassy Charge d'Affaires Thomas Smitham says Biden is also likely to discuss leaders' concerns about U.S. deportations of Caribbean migrants with criminal histories. Biden ...

  • Police shootout in Kemp Road

    Several days after two men were shot dead on Kemp Road, residents of the area were sent scrambling again yesterday morning after gunfire erupted. This time, police and an armed robbery suspect exchanged fire. Police said the suspect was shot in his legs. The shootout happened just before a planned police walkabout in the area in response to the double murder on Whit Monday. Superintendent ...

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School for Scoundrels

School for Scoundrels

In recent years, Billy Bob Thornton has been banking his career on playing a series of amusingly likable jerks, most notably (and hilariously) in Terry Zwigoff's Bad Santa (2003) and then again in Richard Linklater's limp 2005 remake of Bad News Bears, where he reimagined ... ...

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  • Two charged with holiday murders

    Carlon Rolle, 28 (center) was led into court yesterday charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder and weapons possession. PHOTOS: AHVIA J. ...

  • Melvin Maycock Sr. denied bail

    The alleged head of the Caribbean arm of an international drug smuggling gang was yesterday refused bail pending a challenge of an extradition order. Senior Justice Jon Isaacs denied bail for Melvin Maycock Sr. on the grounds that he would reoffend if released. Maycock is serving time in connection with a 1,150 pound marijuana seizure committed while police were looking to pick him up on an ...

  • Police defend action in cruise ship matter

    Relatives of an 11-year-old girl who was allegedly molested aboard a Disney Dream cruise last August indicated to Bahamian authorities they did not want to pursue criminal charges, Superintendent Paul Rolle said yesterday. Rolle's comments came as several international media houses highlighted the incident this week with Florida authorities suggesting they lost their chance to pursue the ...

  • Drainage system ‘maxed out’

    The majority of drainage wells in Pinewood Gardens were either severely clogged or simply did not do what they were intended to during the torrential rain that flooded that area this week, Ministry of Works officials said yesterday. Dexter Williams, senior engineer responsible for drainage, said there was not much more the ministry could have done to alleviate flooding in the low-lying ...

  • Women recall horror of double murder

    Urban Renewal, in collaboration with several church organizations, led a team through Kemp Road yesterday as they conducted a walkabout after a double murder and several shootings occurred in the area earlier this week. Pictured from left, Pastor Dale Rahming, Bishop Walter Hanchell and Urban Renewal Director Superintendent Stephen Dean. PHOTOS: AHVIA J. ...

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