CUBA: Mob attacks human rights protesters
HAVANA (Reuters): More than 200 Cuban government supporters attacked 15 human rights activists on International Human Rights Day yesterday, manhandling the demonstrators as they drove them from a Havana park.
DOMINCAN REPUBLIC: War of words over Haitian mistreatment
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters): The Dominican government yesterday said it would not tolerate foreign interference in its affairs after a group of visiting United States lawmakers criticised the treatment of Haitians on Dominican sugar plantations.
ST LUCIA: The day of reckoning
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC): Thousands of supporters of both the governing St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) and the main United Workers Party (UWP) took on the weekend in a last-lap campaign effort ahead of today's crucial general election.
ST LUCIA: Bill Johnson poll under fire
CASTRIES, St. Lucia (CMC): LEADER OF the Opposition United Workers Party (UWP), Sir John Compton, has dismissed the latest opinion poll which points to a resounding victory for the ruling St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) in today's general election.
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