HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fledgist@weber.ucsd.edu (Fragano Ledgister)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Re: Caribbean Investment
Date: 11 Dec 1992 20:13:58 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego
NNTP-Posting-Host: weber.ucsd.edu

In article <praim.724102315@sfu.ca> praim@fraser.sfu.ca (Praim Sankar) writes:
>
>I would like to get some info. from this group re: investing in 
>the West-Indies. 
>
>I aam probably gettting a little bit tired of this cold and snow
>and have been thinking of using my little nest egg to invest in 
>a business in one of the English speaking islands. 
>
>What I need to know is the opportunities that may be readily
>apparent but for some reasons remained unexploited. What , if any,
>incentives one can apply for to invest in a particular country.
>Local financing available?
>Any peculiar foreign investment restrictions.
>Agencies or organizations to contact.
>Right now I kinda favour Grenada or St. Vincent but will consider
>other places.
>
>So drop me a line and and who knows what may happen.
>
>
A number of Caribbean countries maintain investment development
agency offices in the US and Canada. You might want to contact their
diplomatic missions to get up to date information.

-- 
____________________________________________________________________
Dawn over the dark sea brings on the sun;                      
She leans across the hilltop: see, the light!
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: EDIT'L: Let the Haitians in - NOW!
Date: 18 Dec 92 06:03:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:NgqyVB7w165w@nyxfer.uucp:2003693817:000:2242
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 17 22:03:00 1992


Subject: EDIT'L: Let the Haitians in - NOW!
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)

 
Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit


LET THE HAITIANS IN--NOW!

If President-elect Bill Clinton wants to make good on one of his 
early promises, he now has the perfect opportunity. Let him 
intervene to stop the shamelessly racist oppression of Haitian 
refugees--now.

Two hundred twenty-two HIV-positive Haitian refugees and their 
dependents are being held prisoner at Camp Bulkeley, located in a
remote corner of the U.S. naval base at illegally occupied 
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The detainees, among 40,000 people who fled Haiti following the 
bloody overthrow of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide by the 
Haitian military, were tested for HIV against their will. Under 
the cruel and racist interdiction policy of the Bush 
administration, the great majority were forcibly returned to 
Haiti. The HIV-positive Haitians are held incommunicado in 
conditions of abject squalor and brutal repression.

Several are expected to die within the next several months. 
Medical facilities are completely inadequate. Conditions are so 
bad that already two Haitians have tried to commit suicide.

Washington is refusing to allow four critically ill Haitians to 
enter the U.S. for treatment. An Immigration spokesperson said, 
"They're going to die anyway, aren't they?"

When the Haitians protested against the horrendous conditions at 
Camp Bulkeley, the Navy responded with a display of jet fighters,
tanks, helicopters and attack dogs. The Haitians justifiably 
characterize themselves as prisoners of war, and their prison as 
a concentration camp.

Clinton has promised to reverse Bush's policy on Haitian 
refugees. The Haitians have no time for promises. It's time for 
action now: full asylum for all Haitian immigrants, and medical 
care for those who are ill.

(Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted if
source is cited. For more info contact Workers World, 46 W. 21
St., New York, NY 10010; email: ww%nyxfer@igc.apc.org; "workers"
on PeaceNet; on Internet: "workers@mcimail.com".)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: dave@bradley.bradley.edu (David Vessell)
Subject: Re: Univ.-Virgin Islands on Internet???
Organization: Bradley University
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 22:33:45 GMT

fcs$1224@altair.selu.edu writes:

>I checked bruno.cs.colorado and came up with
>    cs.stthomas.edu
>and then tried 
>    whois stthomas.edu
>getting the same thing.
>I fingered 
>    stthomas.edu
>and found four or five people on the system
>I hope this helps..

Right name, wrong part of the country.  After reading this, I checked our
'whois' and that domain is for the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
Minnesota.

The domain for the University of the Virgin Islands at St. Thomas is

uvi.edu

-- 
 davE.   Making the world safe for intelligent dance music.  dave@bradley.edu.
########## David L. Vessell -- Bradley University Computing Services #########
  "I generally don't sing along with people who tie me up." - Robin Williams
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Still no Senate in Puerto Rico
Date: 19 Dec 92 20:23:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:9FP2VB8w165w@nyxfer.uucp:1839435636:000:855
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 19 12:23:00 1992


Subject: Still no Senate in Puerto Rico
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa"
is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

Still No Senate in Puerto Rico

For the third day in less than two weeks the Puerto Rican senate
has not managed to forum a quorum. Senate President Miguel
Hernandez Agosot called an extraordinary session for Dec. 20. The
defeated Popular Democratic Party tried to fill some positions
before leaving power, which was described as a bad precedent and
an abuse of power by opposition parties. (edlp 12/18/92 byline
Claudio Alvarez Dunn)
 

 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: praim@fraser.sfu.ca (Praim Sankar)
Subject: Caribbean Investment
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:31:55 GMT


I would like to get some info. from this group re: investing in 
the West-Indies. 

I aam probably gettting a little bit tired of this cold and snow
and have been thinking of using my little nest egg to invest in 
a business in one of the English speaking islands. 

What I need to know is the opportunities that may be readily
apparent but for some reasons remained unexploited. What , if any,
incentives one can apply for to invest in a particular country.
Local financing available?
Any peculiar foreign investment restrictions.
Agencies or organizations to contact.
Right now I kinda favour Grenada or St. Vincent but will consider
other places.

So drop me a line and and who knows what may happen.




Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: tony@zoo.toronto.edu (Anthony L. Lang)
Subject: Re: Jagan speaks in Toronto
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:45:18 GMT
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article: <1992Dec14.222856.6545@bnr.ca>
 charan@crchh448.BNR.CA (Cliff Shivcharan) writes:
>
>Hi Tony,
>
>Did Dr Jagan mention the state of the negotiations with foreign
>companies regarding privatisation? I recall that an earlier broadcast
>on VOA stated that the negotiations with the Booker-McConnell group
>for the sugar industry as well as those for the rice had been 
>suspended.
>
>Also, was anything discussed as to the Hamilton Green Affair? Green was
>not appointed to Parliament by the PNC.
>
>Regards,
>Cliff.

No, I am afraid that I don't recall that he mentioned
either issue.

-- 

Anthony Lang
Dept. of Zoology, 
University of Toronto
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Haitian Refugee Freighter Runs Agro
Date: 13 Dec 92 21:20:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:J8NqVB10w165w@nyxfer.uucp:-679175566:000:920
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 13 13:20:00 1992


Subject: Haitian Refugee Freighter Runs Aground
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

edlp 12/11 

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La Prensa" is a
Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

HAITIAN REFUGEES RUN AGROUND OFF MIAMI

A freighter full of Haitian refugees ran aground early on Dec. 10
in Miami Beach, according to authorities. The Coast Guard Service
said there were 117 people on the ship, and it was sailing in
darkness when it ran aground on Fisher island at about 1 AM. At 4
AM, when the tide rose, the boat became free and was taken to
Maimi. The refugees were taken to a local Coast Guard station to
be held later by immigration officers. They spent 10 days at sea.
(edlp 12/11 from AP)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: OAS Asks UN Sec Cncl to Strength Ha
Date: 15 Dec 92 04:56:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:e33sVB6w165w@nyxfer.uucp:311734031:000:1373
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 14 20:56:00 1992


Subject: OAS Asks UN Sec Cncl to Strength Haiti Embargo
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

From el diario/La Prensa 12/14/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


OAS Asks UN Security Council to Strengthen Haiti Embargo

Fifteen months after the coup which unseated Haiti's 
democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and 
having been unsuccessful in attempts to reinstate Aristide, the 
Organization of American States (OAS) decided on Dec. 13 to ask 
the UN Security Council to tighten the embargo against Haiti. The
decision reportedly caused great divisions among the members of 
the OAS. After several hours of debate behind closed doors the 
ministers of Foreign Relations of member countries approved the 
measure. The Security Council was seen as the agent which could 
ask that the embargo be universally respected. The Mexican 
delegation to the OAS objected to the move, saying that the 
Security Council is meant to deal with matters which threaten 
international peace and security, and that the Haitian crisis was
essentially a domestic problem. (edlp 12/14/92 from AFP)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
From: shiple@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Shiple)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Re: Racial oxymorons(and morons)
Date: 14 Dec 92 23:34:46 GMT
Reply-To: shiple@ic.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Shiple)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
NNTP-Posting-Host: ic.berkeley.edu

In article <Bz6DrE.20D@news.iastate.edu>, diaz@iastate.edu () writes:
|> In article <1992Dec9.210850.28262@technology.com> judy@technology.com (Judy McMillin) writes:

|> 	very diverse backgrounds.  I am from Puerto Rico, but I can account
|> 	for myself that a lot of people assume that I am american when they
                                                         ^^^^^^^^
|> 	see me, but some others, like a few people I know, if they only
|> 	know that I am puertorrican, the first thing they ask is, "is she
|> 	black?"

What do you mean by "american"?  Does this have any racial connotation?
I have heard people use the term "American" to mean "Caucasian", which clearly
seems misguided to me, as Americans come in all shades.

Tom Shiple
From: tc37+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tahmin O. Clarke)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Re: Univ.-Virgin Islands on Internet???
Date: 12 Dec 92 09:56:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Yf_YDrS00WBO42SmY1
	<17485@umd5.umd.edu>
Organization: Freshman, CIT general, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I am freshman at CMU currently studying computer engineering.  A network
with the Virgin Islands would be of great interest to me.  Especially
since I am from there.  Anyway I am going home for Christmas, so I will
check to see if UVI established the network yet.  Peace and Have a Merry
Christmas.
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Puerto Rican Legislator Boycott Sen
Date: 18 Dec 92 04:56:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:VPNyVB10w165w@nyxfer.uucp:-995041455:000:1569
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 17 20:56:00 1992


Subject: Puerto Rican Legislator Boycott Senate
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit


From el diario/La Prensa 12/15/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.

Puerto Rican Legislators Miss Sessions

Puerto Rican legislators may have to be brought to legislative
sessions under arrest; such is the inertia engendered by the
prospect of government power passing from the Popular Democratic
Party (PPD) to the New Progressive Party (PNP) as a result of
recent elections. Miquel Hernandez, president of Puerto Rico's
senate, issued arrest orders to those whose absence has prevented
a quorum and who therefore have forestalled any work being done by
that body. The validity of the arrest orders is being questioned
by PNP members.

Meanwhile, the PPD met on Dec. 15 to reorganize in order to face
the coming four-year term of the new US president. They are
looking for a redefinition of Puerto Rico's status as a "Free
Associated State" and will have to decide whether they will
participate in a referendum proposed for 1993 by Governor-elect
Pedro Rossello.

And after a recount of votes it appears that Neftali Garcia,
candidate from the Broad People's Movement, received more votes
than originally thought. He apparently won 70,189 votes, or 3.8
per cent. (edlp 12/15/92 byline Claudio Alvarez Dunn)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
From: nicanet@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: More on Sanchez, Friendshipment
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:40:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:7LcsVB7w165w@nyxfer.uucp:-582576060:000:2702
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nicanet    Dec 14 14:40:00 1992


Subject: More on Sanchez, Friendshipment
From: nyxfer!nicanet (NicaNet NY)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

 from...
 
         Nicaragua Solidarity Network Of Greater New York
       339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 (212) 674-9499
           
            Weekly News Update #150, December 13, 1992

 
CUBAN DISSIDENT HELD BY POLICE

According to friends and relatives of Elizardo Sanchez, the Cuban
dissident was being held by Cuban authorities after being
released from a military hospital. He was hospitalized after
allegedly being beaten by government supporters on Dec. 10. 
Friends of Mr. Sanchez say that while he was visiting a member of
his organization, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights and
National Reconciliation, government supporters stormed the
woman's apartment and punched him in the head and chest. There is
some speculation among Sanchez's supporters that Cuban security
officials coordinated the mob attack. The home of Gustavo Arcos,
another human rights advocate, was also surrounded, but Arcos was
not harmed. [NYT 12/13/92]
 
US-CUBA FRIENDSHIPMENT VOLUNTEERS RETURN

One hundred and four volunteers from the US-Cuba Friendshipment
caravan returned to the US after successfully delivering 15 tons
of material aid to Cuba, despite a US trade embargo against the
nation. Among the organizations which received the material aid
were the Jan. 28 Senior Home, the Cuban Association for the Deaf,
the Cuban Association for the Blind, and the Cuban Association
for People with Physical and Motor Limitations. Tom Hansen, one
of the coordinators of the caravan, said US customs is still
holding $1,500 worth of medicines confiscated from the caravan in
Laredo, Texas, as it was about to enter Mexico. Pastors for
Peace, which organized the caravan, will be sending a delegation
to Cuba in January to carry badly needed medical supplies. A
delegation of African-American ministers is expected in April
with more supplies and in July another nationwide caravan with
aid for Cuba is planned. [Cubanews from Radio Havana Cuba
12/08/92, 12/11/92]
 
                         -30-
 
These updates are published weekly. A one-year subscription is
$25. Back issues and source materials are available on request.
(Many of our source materials are accessed through NY Transfer;
back issues are also available on NY Transfer's OnLine Library.)
Feel free to reproduce these updates or reprint any information
from them, but please credit us. We welcome your comments and
ideas: send them via NY Transfer to <nicanet%nyxfer@igc.apc.org>


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: charan@crchh448.BNR.CA (Cliff Shivcharan)
Subject: Re: Jagan speaks in Toronto
Reply-To: charan@crchh448.BNR.CA (Cliff Shivcharan)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:28:56 GMT

Hi Tony,

Did Dr Jagan mention the state of the negotiations with foreign
companies regarding privatisation? I recall that an earlier broadcast
on VOA stated that the negotiations with the Booker-McConnell group
for the sugar industry as well as those for the rice had been 
suspended.

Also, was anything discussed as to the Hamilton Green Affair? Green was
not appointed to Parliament by the PNC.

Regards,
Cliff.
From: maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Re: Christmas in the Caribbean
Date: 17 Dec 92 21:38:42 GMT
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California

Try the Bahamas. In the Bahamas, the day after Christmas, Boxing
Day, is the occasion of Junkanoo parades and celebration
(there are several parades during the holidays, and it's
all covered on local TV for weeks).

If you want the parade and shopping and night life and casinos,
stay in Nassau/Cable Beach/Paradise Island. If you want a quieter
visit, with just sun and sand and water, visit one of the Family
Islands of the Bahamas, like Abaco, or the Exumas. My favorite quiet
little hotel, which is a haven for scuba divers and snorklers, is
Small Hope Bay Lodge on the island of Andros. It's 20 cabins right
on the beach, meals included, family-owned and operated, very friendly.
Would be a great place for a reunion. Those who want a day of shopping and
casinos are only a 15-minute "scheduled" plane flight from Nassau, an easy day
trip.  On New Years Eve, the Small Hope family makes a big bonfire
on the beach with the Christmas tree.... everyone makes party 
hats, drinks rum or champagne and welcomes the New Year dancing under the 
twinkling stars and the Milky Way... next day you can have fishhead
soup (boil fish) for your hangover!

Reserve ahead! People make coming to Small Hope Bay a tradition.

That's where I'll be next year. If not sooner...

Valerie Maslak
(favorite address: House on the Hill, Fresh Creek, Andros)
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: On Drug Trafficking in Dom.Rep/ed-l
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:36:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:LZ8RVB9w165w@nyxfer.uucp:547961113:000:1287
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 14 14:36:00 1992


Subject: On Drug Trafficking in Dom.Rep/ed-lp
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit

edlp 12/10 Translated and edited by Toby Mailman.  "el Diario/La 
Prensa" is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York 
City.

DRUGS CAPTURED IN DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DON'T MAKE A DENT IN TRAFFIC

Senator Jacinto Peynado confirmed that the equivalent of 
only 1% of the illegal drugs which enter the Dominican Republic 
is ever captured. Patyano, who also serves as the president of 
the National Advisory Board for the Fight Against Drugs (CNLCD) 
during a television interview. He dismissed the idea of a "drug 
war" in the Dominican Republic, although he admitted that the 
country does serve as a channel for drugs going to Europe and the
US.  "However," he said, "we are far from becoming another 
Colombia." He also accused some government officials of using the
property of those accused of drug trafficking before the cases 
have even gone to trial, an abuse of Law 50-88, which governs
what happens to vehicles and other property belonging to 
alleged drug traffickers. (edlp 12/10 byline Isabel Butten)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
From: fred@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Fred Wellington)
Subject: Re: RPST: Meeting In Jamaica And Caribbean IRC Talk 2
Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 20:47:11 GMT

While you're in JA,Contact me through Dr. Sampson, Business Institute Dept
at UWI.
Fred
From: nyt@nyxfer.UUCP
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Subject: Sanchez in Hospital Recovering/ed-l
Date: 14 Dec 92 22:43:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:uwLsVB3w165w@nyxfer.uucp:798123832:000:1784
Nf-From: nyxfer.uucp!nyt    Dec 14 14:43:00 1992


Subject: Sanchez in Hospital Recovering/ed-lp
From: nyxfer!nyt (NY Transfer News)


Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit


From el diario/La Prensa 12/14/92

Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el diario/La Prensa" is 
a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.


Cuban Dissident Recovering from Attack

Cuban dissident leader Elizardo Sanchez is recovering in a 
military hospital in Havana from a beating he received allegedly 
from Cuban police or revolutionary vigilantes on Dec. 10. 
According to Angel Padilla, the leader of the Puerto Rican 
chapter of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights and National 
Reconciliation, Sanchez "had bruises all over his body and his 
blood pressue was very high." The information was said to have 
come from unidentified sources in Cuba. On Dec. 14 the US-based 
human rights organization "Americas Watch" called for the release
of Sanchez and 50 other dissident activists who are currently in 
Cuban prisons. Padilla said that Vladimiro Roca, another Cuban 
dissident, and son of the leader of the Cuban Communist Party, 
Blas Roca, asked the Socialist International to condemn the 
recent events and to separate itself even more from Castro's 
policies.

Padilla said Roca issued a special call to Puertro Rican 
socialists to withdraw their support for the Cuban revolution 
following the events of Dec. 10. "He wants everybody's support," 
added Padilla, "even from those who favor Castro." Sanchez, a 
professor of Marxism, has been opposed to Castro's policies for 
the past 25 years, and has spent nearly eight out of the past 
11 years in prison. (edlp 12/14/92 form AP)


 NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
 Modem: 718-448-2358  *  Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
From: ecurtis@orion.oac.uci.edu (Evans Curtis)
Subject: Re: Christmas in the Caribbean
Newsgroups: soc.culture.caribbean
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 18 Dec 92 21:53:08 GMT

In article <41505@unix.SRI.COM> maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
>Try the Bahamas. In the Bahamas, the day after Christmas, Boxing
>Day, is the occasion of Junkanoo parades and celebration
                         ^^^^^^^

I recall as a boy, back home, there was something we called 'jankunoo', I'm 
sure it's the same word -transposed of course.  I think it's basically a form 
of stilts.  Is it the same for you folks?

Inquiring minds...




Evans D Curtis
Office of Academic Computing
University of California - Irvine