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Chinese ambassador Qian Hongshan and scores of Chinese workers who built the new £20m Queen's Park stadium as a gift from Beijing were visibly uncomfortable as Taiwan's anthem echoed inside the 20,000-seat venue on Saturday. Describing it as a blunder, Grenada's prime minister, Keith Mitchell, pledged an investigation into how the Royal Grenada Police Band could have prepared the anthem of Taiwan...
Tens of thousands of voters in Grenada are expected to head to the polls today, in what political observers are calling a high-stakes race between prime minister Keith Mitchell's ruling New National Party and the opposition National Democratic Congress. The NDC, which is accusing Mitchell of mismanagement and corruption, is hoping to be the latest opposition party in the Caribbean to win office in...
s National party (PNP). He was also a troublemaking journalist and a key trade union organiser. After qualifying as a solicitor in 1941 he served as president of the Jamaica Government Railway Employees' Union (1942-48). The colonial government detained him twice as a subversive during the second world war. In 1945 he helped found the Caribbean Labour Congress. As its general secretary (1947-53), he...
s short-sighted rail cuts. She interpreted at peace congresses in Helsinki, Berlin, Colombo and Moscow. In the 1960s Renate translated from German to English the second volume of Marx's Theories of Surplus Value; this was published in 1968 by Progress Publishers in Moscow and in the UK by Lawrence & Wishart . For six years Renate and Arthur worked in Cuba and the Philippines, where they continued to...
s conference; 3) We seek a substantial financial haircut to prevent getting involved in the kind of piecemeal process that has failed over the past two years; 4) We will try to balance the legitimate interests of all our creditors with the interest of our country. At this week...
Grenada's parliament has enacted a law that press freedom bodies believe will have a chilling effect on free speech. People who send emails and tweets or make comments on social networking and media websites that are deemed to be "offensive" face a potential punishment of a year in jail. The electronic crimes act also outlaws the posting of information that is known to be false but is reproduced in...
s agriculture ministry, with assistance from the FAO and EU in 2009, the existing agro-processing and livestock sectors have major weaknesses: inconsistent quality, insufficient data collection and no long-term plan. The TGD aims to address some of these. At Belmont Estate in Hermitage, St Patrick, we run a breeding programme which provides goats from good milking stock affordably available for farmers...
notice of the attack, Downing Street papers reveal. The supposedly close cold war alliance between the two leaders was plunged into acrimony when the US president informed Downing Street of the invasion plan at 11pm the night before a force of 1,900 marines attacked the island, which had been taken over in a military coup led by Cuban-linked Marxists in October 1983. Thatcher responded in the strongest...
s government stopped making payments to private creditors. Roughly 40% of the debt is owed to private bondholders, and another 40% to multilateral institutions such as the IMF, World Bank, Caribbean Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank. The remainder is on the books of governments, including Taiwan, Kuwait and oil-rich neighbour Trinidad and Tobago. As there is no standard rules-based...
s second novel, The Wild Coast (1958), had similar themes but was more autobiographical. A third novel, The Last Barbarian (1960), explored the experiences of a Caribbean student during the civil rights struggles in the US. In 2009, his first two novels were reprinted, with covers featuring Carew's own paintings. While it may be for fiction that he was best known, it is Carew's non-fiction that exemplifies...
hometowns were not immediately disclosed. Police say Archibald is a 35-year-old photographer. Police say the pair had been in Grenada for a week before their Thursday arrest at the small Caribbean country's airport. If there is a conviction, drug-related offences in Grenada can carry a maximum penalty of 10 years...
Davids are here in the north, as well as the Goliaths such as China Olympic training attention in the north has mostly focused so far on the big boys, such as the Chinese in Leeds, who recently featured in the headlines in the brief spat over the Dalai Lama. But there are smaller and cosier operations under way which will also spread some of the razzamatazz from London in the manner of the highly...
s only when you read the memoirs or diary entries of the protagonists that you realise just how personal, and how arbitrary, are the great actions of state. Many of the momentous decisions taken by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher could easily have been different were it not for the odd hissy fit or word in the ear. Richard Aldous's account of the most intriguing Anglo-American double act of them...
Simon Rawles hears how fair trade rules are helping remaining banana growers in St Lucia, St Vincent, Dominica and Grenada recover from a hurricane that devastated crops in 2010 Simon Rawles Noah Payne-Frank ...
the end of history' unless action is taken to stop sea levels rising Every country in the Caribbean faces huge economic losses caused by rising sea levels over the coming decades, losing hospitals, airports, power plants, multi-million dollar tourism resorts, roads, bridges and farmland, according to a UN report. Diplomats from the 43 Caribbean, African and Pacific nations grouped as Aosis (Alliance...
s revolutionary regime for four years. The US troops battered the island for several weeks, amid fierce resistance from the Grenadian people's revolutionary army and the 1,000 Cubans who had been building the island's international airport. Earlier that month, Bishop had been placed under house arrest by other members of his own party – including Bernard Coard the deputy prime minister and Hudson Austin,...
s (Harrow Road), Hammersmith and Kingsbury hospitals, along with various nursing homes, mainly working through the night to accommodate her young family. She also studied so that she could progress in the workplace. In the late 1970s, Clytie rediscovered her Christian faith, and she and Winston became involved in the early stages of the creation of the Peckham branch of the Latter Rain Outpouring Revival...
My friend Raphael Albert, who has died aged 74, was one of the leading promoters of beauty pageants in the black community in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, responsible for founding the annual Miss West Indies in Great Britain contest. Born in Grenada, West Indies, he was one of twins and the youngest of 10 siblings. He struggled to make a life on the island; selling his artwork to tourists...
rock genre Louisa Mark, who has died suddenly aged 49, was one of the most important vocalists of lovers' rock, a uniquely black British style of romantic reggae that she helped to pioneer during the mid-1970s. Although Mark's output was not prolific, several of her recordings were immensely popular with local audiences seeking an alternative to the predominant political protest form of Jamaican roots...