Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is offering to sell her Phillipine home to San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning for TT$30 million.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Reports are now surfacing that witnesses are coming out of the woodwork thick and fast to give investigators damning statements against embattled Cabinet minister James Robertson. 

(Go Jamaica) Prime Minister Bruce Golding has given instructions for a team of medical and support personnel to be mobilized for deployment to Haiti.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is seeking to remove five non-executive directors of the eight-member Central Bank board in a move that has raised issues of the independence of the Central Bank, possibilities of conflict of interest and even the legality of the President appointing the new directors before the completion of the terms of existing directors.

(Jamaica Observer) Veteran Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs, was given an emotional send off at a thanksgiving service for his life at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Judiciary of T&T is calling for the destruction of all illegally obtained material gathered by the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA).

(Jamaica Gleaner) David Smith, head of the failed foreign-exchange trading scheme Olint, is in United States custody today after he was handed over to American authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) An Iranian national, suspected to be linked with international terrorist organisations, was detained at a house in Arouca on Wednesday.

(Jamaica Observer) Popular dancehall deejay ‘Zebra’ was sentenced to 30 years at hard labour in the St Catherine Circuit Court, yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) The daughter of a senior police officer was killed by bandits when she attempted to escape a bar robbery in San Fernando on Tuesday night.

HAVANA, (Reuters – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro  said his frail health forced him to delegate his powers as head  of Cuba’s Communist Party, suggesting he may have resigned his  last leadership post.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Brigadier John Sandy introduced legislation in the Senate on Tuesday aimed at cracking down on illegal guns and ammunition which are used to commit murder and other serious crimes.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela deported three  alleged guerrillas to Colombia yesterday in another show of  rapprochement between the Andean neighbors after they clashed  over charges President Hugo Chavez was soft on rebels.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Anti-U.N. riots in the  Haitian city of Cap-Haitien have disrupted international  efforts to tackle a spreading cholera epidemic, increasing the  risk of infection and death for tens of thousands of poor  Haitians in the north, aid workers said yesterday. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Six months after being elected the Prime Minister of T&T, Kamla Persad-Bissessar has named Housing and Environment Minister Dr Roodal Moonilal as her successor.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United Nations yesterday blamed political and criminal “spoilers” in Haiti for  attacks on U.N.

(Barbados Nation) More than 300 local and international creditors and suppliers connected with the Four Seasons project are set to get about Bds$100 million over the course of two years.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Protesters in Haiti who blame United Nations troops for a cholera epidemic that has killed hundreds attacked UN peacekeepers with rocks in two cities yesterday, raising questions about security ahead of presidential elections this month, authorities said.

(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said she wants a full probe into the operations of the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA).

(Trinidad Express) Warring gangs took their fight from the dancehall to the Sangre Grande District Hospital on Sunday morning, forcing doctors and nurses to scamper for safety and lock themselves in various rooms to avoid being injured.