| |
News from Nytimes.com |
|
|
|
News From Dominica
|
|
¤ One Runner With Two Olympic Chances in 400
Although Erison Hurtault did not qualify at the United States Olympic track and field trials, he will still compete in Beijing, for his parents’ country of birth, Dominica. | ¤ Sports and Politics Merge in 2010 World Cup Draw
South Korea and North Korea will meet in Asian qualifying, and the United States could face Cuba in the semifinals. | ¤ Columbia Sprinter Faces Olympic Choice
 Erison Hurtault is the fastest 400-meter sprinter in Columbia history and has swept the event in each of the seven Ivy League championship meets of his career. | ¤ PLUS: SOCCER; U.S. Continues Olympic Qualifying
US under-23 national team will either play Dominica or St Kitts in second round of qualifying for 2004 Athens Games | ¤ Island Acts to Fight Money Laundering
Dominica's legislature passes anti-money-laundering law that permits foreign authorities to investigate offshore banks, step that Caribbean island hopes will remove it from international blacklist; Dominica is one of 19 countries that Financial Action Task Force, group based in Paris that was set up by United States and other industrial powers, deems uncooperative in fighting money laundering | ¤ 15 Countries Named as Potential Money-Laundering Havens
Financial Action Task Force, body created by Group of 7 wealthy countries to fight money laundering, names 15 countries and territories as potential havens for ill-gotten wealth; they are Israel, Philippines, Russia, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Dominica, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, St Kitts and Nevis and St Vincent and the Grenadines | ¤ PLUS: SOCCER -- WORLD CUP QUALIFYING; Haiti Routs Dominica, 4-0
Haiti defeats Dominica, 4-0, Port-au-Prince, in qualifier for 2002 World Cup | ¤ Style; Running Wild
Photos of resort clothes, shot in jungle of Dominica | ¤ Foreign Medical School Has Hopes Of Hanging Its Shingle on U.S. Soil
Ross University, medical school in Caribbean island nation of Dominica, wants to open branch in Casper, Wyoming; plan has been embraced by Gov Jim Geringer and local business leaders; it has stalled amid fears that permitting foreign medical school to operate in US would lead to proliferation of unlicensed and unregulated schools; map; photos | ¤ Hurricane Leaves Trail of Destruction in Caribbean Isles
The most powerful hurricane to roil the Caribbean in six years skipped across a necklace of resort islands today, leaving houses flattened, hospitals damaged, airports closed and power and communications lines hopelessly grounded. The most widespread destruction seemed to be on Antigua, where officials estimated that the vast majority of houses had been damaged or destroyed, said Paul Bell, coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean region for the United States Office of Foreign Disaster A... |
|
| |
| |
