Lord Karessah Calypso Monarch ‘09

21-year old Kyan Toussaint is Miss Dominica ‘09

“Pastor Rod” and “Calypso Too Patriotic” Earns Gregory ‘Karessah’ Riviere Calypso Monarch ‘09

By Nazarine Gordon
Gregory Karessah  Riviere   of  the North-Eastern village of Marigot is  Dominica’s 2009 Calypso Monarch.
Karessah’s “Pastor Rod” and “Calypso Too Patriotic” earned him the title at the end of a well attended  show, one of the  highlights  of the country’s carnival celebrations, which ended way into Sunday morning.
It’s the first time Karessah is wining [...]

Ex-umpire Dicki Bird says money has ruined cricket

London, Feb.21 (ANI): Cricket’s most famous umpire, Harold “Dickie” Bird, says the game has been damaged forever by the amount of money that is coming in.
Ten years after he retired, Dickie, 75, who umpired three World Cup finals and 66 Test matches, is depressed that the “greatest game in the world” has been so badly [...]

Queen of Soca, Faye-Ann Lyons-Alvarez

Published: February 21st, 2009
Trinidad Guardian
Faye-Ann Lyons-Alvarez created history on Friday night when she became the first woman ever to capture the Power Soca title at the International Soca Monarch Finals at the Hasely Crawford Stadium. She also clinched the Groovy Soca Monarch title and the People’s Choice Award to walk away with a grand total [...]

No Trace of Madoff Trades in 13 Years

By Carlyn Kolker, Thom Weidlich and Oshrat Carmiel
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — Bernard Madoff, who sent his clients thousands of receipts purporting to document their trades, has left no trace of buying any securities for customers for as much as 13 years, the trustee liquidating his securities firm said.
“We have found no evidence to indicate that [...]

U.S. Stocks fall Capping the worst Weekly Drop in 3 months

By Elizabeth Stanton
Feb. 20 (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks fell, capping the worst weekly drop in three months for the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, as concern bank shareholders will be wiped out by government takeovers snuffed out a late-afternoon recovery.
Citigroup Inc. tumbled as much as 36 percent and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped below [...]

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Agents find billionaire Stanford

FBI agents in the US state of Virginia have served Texan billionaire Sir Allen Stanford with civil legal papers from the US financial watchdog, the SEC.
Sir Allen, who disappeared from public view on Tuesday when he was accused by the SEC of an $8bn (£5.6bn) fraud, is believed to be in the Richmond area.
The SEC [...]

U.S. Sues UBS Seeking Swiss Account Customer Names

By David Voreacos and Carlyn Kolker
Feb. 19 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government sued UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to try to force disclosure of the identities of as many as 52,000 American customers who allegedly hid their secret Swiss accounts from U.S. tax authorities.
U.S. customers had 32,940 secret accounts containing cash and 20,877 accounts holding [...]