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JAMAICA-POLITICS-Simpson Miller calls for unity after election win
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Portia Simpson Miller on Saturday night called for unity within the opposition People’s National Party (PNP) after she beat off a challenge from her rival, Dr. Peter Phillips, to be reconfirmed as the president of the 70-year-old institution. ... Full story
BASKETBALL-WNBA-RESULT Sacramento beat San Antonio 84-67
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Sep 21, CMC - The Sacramento Monarchs beat San Antonio Silver Stars 84-67 in Game 2 of their Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Western Conference play-off match on Saturday. ... Full story
HORSE RACING-USA-RESULTS Ziadie, Bridgmohan win stakes races at Calder
MIAMI, Florida, Sep 21, CMC - Champion trainer Kirk Ziadie and jockey Jermaine Bridgmohan posted Jamaican stakes triumphs in Calder horse racing on Saturday afternoon. ... Full story
HORSE RACING-USA-RESULT Sooden wins Robert Hilton Stakes at Charles Town
CHARLES TOWN, West Virginia, Sep 21, CMC - The 10-year-old gelding Confucius Say, ridden by Trinidad and Tobago\'s Rodney Soodeen, won the Robert R Hilton Memorial Stakes at Charles Town on Saturday evening. ... Full story
TRINIDAD-CRIME-Government enacts tough law to combat crime
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – President George Maxwell Richards on Friday signed into law a tough new Bail Act which will deny bail to persons who are charged with very serious offences. ... Full story
HAITI-DISASTER-Caribbean American congresswoman pleads for Haiti
NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean-American Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke Saturday night made an impassioned appeal for emergency aid for Haiti in the wake of the ravages for four successive storms. ... Full story
Stand-off remains between Digicel and Stanford
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – The dispute over the lucrative Stanford Super Series seems poised to continue after Stanford Twenty20 declared Saturday that mobile phone giants Digicel had rejected their compromise aimed at ending the stand-off. ... Full story
GRENADA-FINANCE-Troubled bank to appeal licence revocation
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Head of the troubled Capital Bank International (CBI) Finton DeBourg says he intends to take the government to court to appeal a decision to revoke its banking licence. ... Full story
GRENADA-FINANCE-Troubled bank to appeal licence revocation
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Head of the troubled Capital Bank International (CBI) Finton DeBourg says he intends to take the government to court to appeal a decision to revoke its banking licence. ... Full story
GUYANA-AID-Rotary Club provides aid to Haiti
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - The Rotary Club of Georgetown will be donating $1 million (US$4,898) to Haiti to provide much needed aid for the victims of recent hurricanes which ravaged the French-sepaking Caribbean country. ... Full story
