Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Chamber of Commerce has called for more attention to good governance by business and government in 2012.

(Trinidad Express) Industrial action at the Port of Port of Spain left several departments at a standstill on Saturday.

(Trinidad Express) Cuban President Raul Castro on Thursday lashed out at developed countries, saying they have been of no help to Cuba and small islands in terms of dealing with climate change and the global economic meltdown.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Andrew Holness, has revealed that the United States Government provided surveillance assistance to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) through the presence of an aircraft over Tivoli Gardens during the May 24, 2010 operations in the West Kingston community to serve a warrant on convicted drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.

(Barbados Nation) It’s settled. Barbados’ jobless rate is officially 12.1 per cent.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – In the Bible, shepherds and wise  men paid homage to the newborn baby Jesus.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez  has canceled trips to Argentina and Brazil that would have been  his first official visits abroad since he underwent cancer  surgery in June, a Brazilian organization said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) As the trade union movement prepares for a mass demonstration on Friday, Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams said yesterday that he does not expect the industrial unrest to continue into 2012.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday sought to assure media practitioners who have come under attack from Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) platforms in Manchester and Portland that his Government supports democracy and freedom of speech.

(Jamaica Observer) One thousand jobs will be created when the Convergys Corporation opens its first call centre in Jamaica next year, Dr Christopher Tufton, the minister of industry, investment and commerce, announced on Wednesday at a press briefing in Kingston.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – ‘All hen houses are full right now.

(Trinidad Express) US-based hotel chain Hilton Worldwide has been denied a special licence from the US Government to allow for the IV Caricom/Cuba Summit to be held at the Hilton Trinidad and Conference Centre with visiting Cuban President Raul Castro.

(Barbados Nation) Excessive use of force by police is of concern to Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite, and he has asked regional commissioners to pay attention to it.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is insisting that there was no assistance from the United States government in the Tivoli Gardens incursion last year May.

(Trinidad Express) The image of this country has been damaged. The “success” of the State of Emergency is not convincing and the alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Government Ministers was perhaps another “misstep”.

(Trinidad Express) Joseph Hagley’ss acute sense of hearing saved the lives of his wife and daughter before he was killed by the landslide which destroyed their Sans Souci home on Sunday morning, according to two of his sons.

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite criticisms from Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley and many others in T&T, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she has no regrets about calling the state of emergency to deal with spiralling crime. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) Political analyst, Kevin O’Brien Chang, says it is disgraceful that an election is just weeks away and neither of the country’s major political parties have published their manifesto.

(Barbados Nation) Bridgetown is set to launch Duty-Free Day on Friday, with Government and the Barbados Chamber of Commerce & Industry (BCCI) very upbeat about the returns in the face of the economic downturn.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaicans are to go to the polls on Thursday December 29, 2011.