Word: antigua
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...could take place within a week to a month. Meanwhile, about 160 Caribbean troops--the first to agree to serve as an invasion backup force--arrived in Puerto Rico for two weeks of training with hundreds of U.S. Army Special Forces troops. The 17 countries, some announced previously, are: Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, the Bahama Islands, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Dominica, Guyana, Israel, Jamaica, The Netherlands, Panama, St. Vincent, Trinidad and the United Kingdom...
...four Carribean countries agreed to supply 266 peacekeeping soldiers to police Haiti after a possible U.S. invasion. At a meeting in Kingston, Jamaica, senior U.S. officials elicited the troop promises from Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Belize, but the three other Caribbean Community members with armies -- Guyana, the Bahamas and Antigua -- balked at the last minute without immediate explanation. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott and Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch said the multinational force would begin training in Puerto Rico and enter Haiti after the military junta departs -- either peacefully or post-invasion. For all the talk, says TIME Pentagon...
...himself, granting asylum hearings aboard U.S. ships. One month later the President announced that no boat people would be resettled in the U.S., but only in neighboring regions. The only problem was that Panama's President Endara revoked his pledge to take 10,000 new refugees, and Grenada and Antigua followed, taking their combined 4,000 beds with them. Currently the only haven for refugees is the 12,500 bed facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Of course it is already filled to capacity...
...HAITIAN REFUGEES now that Panama has reneged on an agreement to do so. Some refugees might end up traveling farther than they initially bargained for: Washington has approached several nations in West Africa, including French-speaking Benin and Senegal, about harboring Haitians. Administration officials say the Caribbean islands of Antigua, Grenada and Dominica have agreed "in principle" to set up safe havens...
...simply another example of a tragic police error but the pathetic end to a long, quiet life of doing good. Williams, a native of Antigua, had spent 40 years as an itinerant pastor in the Caribbean. Ten years ago, he retired and moved to Boston with his wife to be near their only child, who was studying in the area. On the afternoon of March 25, he was at home in the apartment the police had targeted. An informant had told them that drugs and guns were stashed in a second-floor room at 118 Whitfield Street. With...