Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The Anti-Corruption Commission will have “teeth” and will go after people who are corrupt in this country, says Attorney General Anand Ramlogan.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados government says merchants are ripping off consumers with food prices and has vowed to increase the number of inspectors monitoring price movements.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti mourned more than  300,000 victims of its devastating 2010 earthquake yesterday  in a sombre one-year anniversary clouded by pessimism over slow  reconstruction and political uncertainty.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The U.S. and Haitian  governments signed a deal on Tuesday with a South Korean  garment manufacturer to develop an industrial park in  quake-hit Haiti in one of the largest investment projects in  the poor Caribbean country.

(Trinidad Express) CLICO policyholders may have something extra to jump up for this Carnival, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has said.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – President Rene Preval yesterday launched a poignant first anniversary remembrance of  Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, laying a wreath at the  mass grave of tens of thousands of quake dead and saying his  country would never forget the victims.

Ties between Britain and its Caribbean dependency of Anguilla took a turn for the worse on Saturday following a fiery speech by its Chief Minister, Hubert Hughes during which he mentioned Guyana thrice and invoked the spirit of the island’s 1967 revolt against its colonial rulers.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil is planning to spend $6  billion (10 billion reais) on a new project to protect its  borders against smuggling and arms trafficking, Folha de S. 

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, in a  setback to hopes for the quick closing of the Guantanamo Bay  prison, reluctantly signed a bill yesterday barring suspects  held there from being brought to the United States for trial.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile said yesterday it had  recognized a Palestinian state, joining an endorsement by Latin  American peers the United States has called premature and  Israel has warned is harmful to the Middle East peace process. 

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Trinidadian conglomerate Neal & Massy Holdings says that it has written off its investment in Joey Issa’s Cool Petroleum Ltd and that Cool is a looking for a new equity partner to pump cash into the business that has failed to return a profit over the past two years.

(Go Jamaica) Head of the so called New World Order gang, Horace Ramsey, more popularly known as ‘Pugu’, was yesterday morning shot and killed during a joint police/military operation.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Amnesty International  urged the Dominican Republic yesterday to halt what it called  “mass” deportations of Haitian immigrants in a bid to prevent  the spread of cholera from neighbouring Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Reconstruction has barely  begun in Haiti a year after its catastrophic earthquake, a  leading international charity said yesterday in a report  sharply critical of a recovery commission led by former U.S. 

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Supporters and opponents of  Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez traded taunts and held dueling  rallies yesterday at the start of a new parliament shorn of  power by the socialist leader’s assumption of rule by decree.

Holland is formulating a detailed response to the bombshell announcement in November last year that it had planned to invade Suriname in 1986 to arrest military leader and current President Desi Bouterse.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians have nothing to fear about foreign ownership of the Barbados Light & Power Company (BL&P).

(Jamaica Observer) The agriculture ministry on Monday defended a decision to import a number of queen bees from Hungary, saying that they were needed to improve the genetics of local stock.

(Jamaica Observer) Two visually impaired women were killed on Monday and five other people seriously injured after they were mowed down by a motor car at a bus stop along old Hope Road in front of the Matilda’s Corner Police Station in St Andrew.

(BBC) Antigua and Barbuda has become the first state in the sub-region to sign the Instrument of Ratification for the Revised Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States Treaty of Basseterre establishing OECS economic union.