(Trinidad Express) In light of a weekend report that the low cost carrier REDjet is in jeopardy of maintaining its mandate due to exhaustion of its US$8M funds, the management of the airline is pointing finger at the Barbados Air Transport Licensing Authority for the unusual and excessive delays.
(Trinidad Guardian) Empowering citizens and lowering the country’s food import bill are behind “Agriculture Now”, the Ministry of Food Production, Land and Marine Affairs’ latest farming initiative.
Haitian President Michel Martelly and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) president Luis Alberto Moreno have announced the completion of the US$70M, 80km-long Route Nationale 1 (RN1) one of Haiti’s principal highways.
(Trinidad Express) Another former member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force has been arrested by police in connection with the alleged assassination plot against Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and three Cabinet members.
CARACAS (Reuters) – The presidents of Venezuela and Colombia announced yesterday the capture of one of the region’s most-wanted drug traffickers and hailed it as evidence of unity against crime between the ideologically opposed governments.
HAVANA (Reuters) – The Cuban government will begin contracting out some services to the private sector next year in a break from the state-dominated past aimed at helping small business develop, government insiders said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – By August this year, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) had posted US$16.5 million in profits.
(Trinidad Guardian) A couple believed to be Israelis—who entered T&T soil with fraudulent passports—has escaped five months after they were put in a hotel under security watch at Caribbean Airline’s (CAL) expense.
(Jamaica Observer) Both major political parties have flatly refused to voluntarily comply with the Electoral Commission of Jamaica’s (ECJ’s) recommendation to disclose the names of donors to their political campaigns leading up to the general election which is expected to be held next month.
(Jamaica Observer) KABUL, Afghanistan — Jamaican audacity knows no bounds. Living up to their reputation for being found in just about every corner of the world, at least three Jamaicans currently reside in this war-torn Afghan capital, working with international aid organisations.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Arguing that Jamaica’s political parties lack the social legitimacy required to push through the tough policies necessary to pull the economy out of its crisis, academic Don Robotham has suggested a renewed experimentation with the Senate to give the legislature a wider base and the Government a stronger platform to do the difficult things.
(Trinidad Guardian) A wireless money transfer is said to be the source of funds allegedly used to finance a tranche of high profile rifles shipped to T&T.
(Trinidad Express) “The threat is real and I am saddened to learn that some people who ought to know better are trivialising it.”
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday said the plot to assassinate her and Government members was an “act of treason” which will not deter her from dealing with the criminal elements and returning this country to a peaceful state.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Government is pushing ahead with plans to reform the country’s libel laws with the tabling of new legislation in Parliament.
(Jamaica Observer) The Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) is developing a Primary Exit Examination, Professor of Research, Measurement and Evaluation at the University of the West Indies’ School of Education, Dr Stafford Griffith, has disclosed.
(Trinidad Guardian) The board of the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) has sacked its general manager, Glenford Cyrille.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given the assurance that the independent review of the Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) that is now being undertaken will be thorough.
(Jamaica Observer) The Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) says 95 per cent of incomplete shooting-related cases are awaiting the results of forensic testing, and has recommended that the necessary steps be taken to improve the operations of the Government Forensic Lab, or give the commission budgetary allocations to use private local and overseas laboratories.
CAPITAN GIMENEZ, Paraguay, (Reuters) – No one thought to mention it when they heard whispers and rustling in the bushes near the police station in Capitan Gimenez, assuming it was the hushed voices of lovers in the dark.
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