By Gary Smith
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad: Swansea City in-form striker Jason Scotland sounded his intentions for a starting place against Guatemala on Saturday, after he scored a hat-trick to guide Trinidad and Tobago to a comfortable 9-0 thrashing of Dominican Republic in a friendly international at the Hasely Crawford Stadium on Wednesday night.
Ace striker Cornell Glen also lodged a hat-trick for the home side in their comfortable warm up victory before their two important CONCACAF matches.
Scotland, who was only drafted to replace the injured Colin Samuels at the weekend, got the hosts off the mark in the 28th minute with a grounder from inside the penalty area.
He got his second three-minutes later and then completed his hat-trick in the 35th minute with another low shot past goalkeeper Miguel Lloyd.
Glen, who replaced Scotland in the second half got his goals, with two coming the 72nd minute.
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By Kevin Lindon
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The Caribbean was unready for the negotiations on agriculture under the controversial Economic Partner-ship Agreement (EPA), a senior negotiator said this week at an agriculture conference in Kingstown.
Ambassador Patrick Antoine, a lead negotiator in the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, said the bloc has lost some opportunities in areas such as transportation.
“Late in the EPA negotiation process, CARICOM (Caribbean Community) was scrambling to respond to the European Union proposals,” Antoine said Tuesday morning during a media roundtable workshop at the Caribbean Week of Agriculture conference in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
“We came to the table in agriculture, truth be told, ill-prepared.”
Antoine said, for example, matters raised by Belize - such as having the issues of subsidies and domestic support addressed - were ignored in the EPA talks.
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By Oscar Ramjeet
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The Executive Director of the Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export), Phillip Williams, said that his agency, along with the Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce and the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery, were working towards extensive promotion of the region’s export services.
Williams said that a 23-member business mission recently returned from an encouraging trip to Europe.
The Barbados Advocate reported the Caribbean Export exposed ICT and home and video producers from the region to business opportunities for them in London and Madrid respectively.
Williams said that there would be a follow-up meeting at an EU CARIFORUM business forum in Barbados on November 23 and 24.
There was also mention of ongoing programmes with Trade Facilitation Office Canada to promote health and wellness tourism and handicraft. These types of activities, although critical to export success were costly, Williams said.
The Executive Director added that he was currently in the process of organising a study tour to Ireland to expose senior trade and investment promotion officials to the Irish miracle, which has resulted in sustained success of the Irish economy over the last two decades.
Source: CNN
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A Stifel Nicolaus & Co. analyst maintained his ”Buy” rating on shares of Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), saying the stock’s sell-off is overdone, despite increasing pressures on consumer discretionary spending.
The analyst noted Royal Caribbean’s shares have dropped more than 40 percent over the past five weeks. He said the sell-off appears overly dramatic.
The analyst believes a slowdown in bookings is already factored into the share price and estimates. He also said the Miami company has enough inventory booked already to provide “a sound cushion for the next six months.”
Source: MiamiHerald.Com
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On 1D4TW, news about the new “Africa Command” (AfriCOM) and a call for participation in a movement to resist its imposition. Of particular importance to anthropologists will be the fact that U.S. civilian development programs will come under military guidance, as well as the fact that the Human Terrain System is seeking to make inroads through AfriCOM and its funding.
From Resist AFRICOM, an outline of African reactions to this newest U.S. military intrusion:
* On September 14th 2007, Nigerian media reported that the Nigerian government began meetings with West African governments and the leadership of the African Union to oppose AFRICOM — the Pentagon’s Africa command — from establishing itself in the Gulf of Guinea region. This follows a similar decision by the 14 Nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) which recently refused the entrance of U.S. soldiers on Southern African soil. This growing opposition to AFRICOM should be taken into serious consideration as the Bush Administration furthers its plans for military expansion on the African continent.
* To date, the only African government to come out in full public support of AFRICOM is Liberia. Others, such as South Africa and Nigeria, have expressed deep concern over the role of AFRICOM and an expanded U.S. military footprint on African soil.
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) — A U.N. nuclear conference of 145 nations indirectly criticized Israel on Saturday for refusing to put its atomic program under international purview.
But the Jewish state managed to evade being targeted by Islamic countries pushing for a vote to link it to nuclear proliferation in the Middle East.
Iran, Israel’s most outspoken foe, spearheaded the verbal attack on the Jewish state, as it has done at past general conferences of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Israel is widely considered to have nuclear arms, but has a “no tell” policy on the issue.
Chief Iranian delegate Ali Ashgar Soltanieh said Israel’s nuclear capabilities represent a “serious and continued threat to the security of neighboring and other states.”
He took the United States and other Western backers of Israel to task for their “shameful silence” on what he said was the menace posed by Israel’s atomic arsenal.
The meeting voted for a resolution urging all nations to open their nuclear activities to outside inspection and work toward the establishment of a Mideast nuclear weapons free zone. With Israel the only country in the region considered to have atomic arms, passage of the resolution constituted indirect criticism of the Jewish state.
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Indian steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, 58, the richest man in Europe and the 4th richest man in the world, can now be known as the world’s biggest loser after his net worth plummeted by a whopping $28 billion over the last four months due to the global financial crisis. Mittal, a London resident who paid a record $200 million for a Georgian mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens earlier this year, still has $17 billion left, the London Times reports. We don’t yet know how Mittal’s stunning loss - which equates to $240 million / day or nearly $10 million per hour - re-positions him on the world’s rich list as several other plutocrats have also suffered reversals, but it’s safe to say he’ll end up much further down unless the stock market recovers soon.
Source: Luxist.Com
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A man told today how he was shot three times in a London street for wearing a Barack Obama T-shirt.
Dube Egwuatu was buying a mobile telephone top-up card in an off-licence when the gunman confronted him and glared at the top, which carries an image of the Democrat US presidential candidate underneath the legend ‘Believe’.
The man then launched into a tirade of racist slurs, shouting ‘I f***ing hate n*****s’ and urging 36-year-old Mr Egwuatu to leave the shop with him.
Respect: Dube Egwuatu wearing the Obama T-shirt that provoked a racist attack
The man then left the shop but when Mr Egwuatu re-emerged, the attacker was waiting for him in broad daylight with a threatening-looking dog and holding a gun behind his back.
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Leaders and representatives of the Central American Integration System (SICA) member states Saturday met in Honduras’s capital Tegucigalpa on regional security and integration, according to reports reaching Managua.
Presidents from Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Guatemala and El Salvador, a vice president of Panama as well as representatives from the Dominican Republic and Belize attended the summit meeting.
Top on the agenda of the SICA meeting were security across the Central America, efforts to establish a customs union among the member nations and the U.S. financial crisis’s impact on the region.
SICA was founded in December 1991 to push for integration in the Central American region. It now has eight members — Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Dominican Republic.
Source:Xinhua
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A British couple have been arrested in the Dominican Republic on suspicion of drugs trafficking.
The Foreign Office was providing the couple with consular assistance
The Foreign Office said it was providing Kelly Carrigan and Daniel Patterson, who are believed to be from Glasgow, with consular assistance.
The pair were arrested at Punta Cana airport on 2 October.
It is understood Foreign Office staff have visited Ms Carrigan’s two young sons who were taken into care following the arrests.
Penalties for drug offences in the Dominican Republic include long prison sentences and hefty fines.
Source: BBC
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