(Barbados Nation) The presence of United States Attor-ney General Eric Holder in Barbados and its Caribbean neighbours this past week has stirred intense right-wing Republican and Tea Party anger in Washington.
(Jamaica Observer) Patrick Wong was on Saturday sacked as chief executive officer of the National Works Agency (NWA) and Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry stripped of all responsibilities for the multi-million-dollar Jamaica Development Infrastructure Programme (JDIP) as Prime Minister Andrew Holness applied damage control measures to an issue that could stain the Government ahead of the impending general election.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamai-cans are expected to vote in December, Prime Minister Andrew Holness hinted this yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE/MIAMI (Reuters) – No one disputes that Haiti needs battalions of builders, developers and investors to help it rise from the ruins of last year’s earthquake.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff approved yesterday the creation of a Truth Commission to investigate human rights abuses committed in the period during and leading up to its 1964-1985 military dictatorship.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel Martelly yesterday launched a plan to restore the nation’s armed forces, despite fears their revival could be divisive in a country bloodied by past military coups and rights abuses.
(Jamaica Observer) Caribbean, Canadian and Mexican travellers will now have to pay a US$5.50 tax if they enter the United States by air or sea.
(Reuters) – Brazil is launching a top-level drive to expand its economic ties with Africa, a sign of how crises in the rich world are pushing faster-growing emerging economies to trade and invest among themselves.
(Trinidad Express) Gita Sakal former corporate secretary of CL Financial, said she was personally affected by the collapse of the conglomerate because she owned two Executive Flexible Premium Annuity (EFPA) policies from CLICO.
(Trinidad Guardian) US Attorney General Eric Holder is coming to Port-of-Spain tomorrow for a face-to-face, closed-door meeting with Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.
(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) chairman George Nicholas is boasting that despite recent troubles, the national airline not only raked in TT$200 million in profits, but is also putting money back into the country’s coffers.
(De Ware Tijd) NIEUW NICKERIE – On Monday evening, an enormous fire reduced two businesses on the corner of Emma- and Maynardstraat to ashes.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Finance Minister Winston Dookeran says French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s naming of T&T as a tax haven was premature and improper.
(Jamaica Observer) Six policemen who were assigned to the Gun Court Remand Centre have been transferred and are facing certain corruption charges after they were allegedly caught on camera taking money from a close relative of jailed popular entertainer Vybz Kartel.
(Trinidad Guardian) Males outnumbered females in new cases of cancer and cancer deaths in T&T.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro’s largest slum without firing a shot yesterday, the biggest step in the Brazilian city’s bid to improve security and end the reign of drug gangs.
(Trinidad Express) Anger coursed through the Gasparillo Road, Santa Cruz, community yesterday after three residents were shot dead and three others injured during an incident with police in Chaguanas earlier in the day.
St Lucia observed three days of national mourning following the Thursday evening accident in which a bus coming from a funeral went over a cliff and plunged into the sea killing 17 people including an infant and a pregnant woman.
(Barbados Nation) France’s president Nicholas Sarkozy has named Barbados among 11 so-called tax havens which he says will be shunned by the international community.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is launching a plan to make a traditional Christmas dish available at rock-bottom prices in his latest populist move ahead of an election next year.
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