BRIDGETOWN (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas battered east Caribbean islands with winds, rain and surf yesterday, ripping off roofs and downing trees and power lines on a westward track that will put earthquake-hit Haiti at risk next week.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Gunmen opened fire on a group of people on a neighbourhood sports field in northern Honduras and killed at least 14, authorities said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) – A 24-year-old girl with cerebral palsy has successfully overcome her physical challenges to graduate from the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a Bachelors of Science Degree.
MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Tomas formed in the Atlantic on a track threatening the Caribbean’s central Windward Islands, while further north Tropical Storm Shary headed for the British island territory of Bermuda.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian ruling party candidate Dilma Rousseff holds a solid lead over challenger Jose Serra days before a presidential runoff on Sunday, according to a new opinion poll.
Premier elected Finance minister Paula Cox will be Bermuda’s next Premier.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, the current president’s husband and a leading contender to succeed her in next year’s election, died from a heart attack yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) – Sabrina Lalla-Mitchell’s tormentor turned up at her workplace and stabbed her to death on Tuesday afternoon —a killing witnessed by her two children.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The unusually high death rate in Haiti’s cholera epidemic is slowing as people become aware of the disease and health experts provide treatment, the World Health Organisation said yesterday.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A severe drought has pushed river levels in Brazil’s Amazon region to record lows, leaving isolated communities dependent on emergency aid and thousands of boats stranded on parched riverbeds.
(Barbados Nation) It’s the end of the road for Government’s lead political adviser Hartley Henry.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The rate of deaths in Haiti’s cholera epidemic slowed yesterday as a multinational medical operation scaled up to limit the spread of an outbreak that has killed 259 people in the earthquake-hit country.
(BBC)- Reggae star Gregory Isaacs has died at the age of 59 at his London home following a long illness, his manager has confirmed.
(Barbados Nation) – St John, the parish which the late Prime Minister David Thompson represented in Parliament for the past 23 years, will be home for his final resting place.
(Barbados Nation) “Gird your loins” and go back to work. This was the advice which Governor General Sir Clifford Husbands had on Sunday for new Prime Minister Freundel Stuart and his Cabinet.
(Jamaica Observer) The policeman who is alleged to have illegally handed wiretap evidence to United States authorities in the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition affair, is an innocent man, according to former Police Commissioner Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin.
(Jamaica Observer) Central Jamaica businessman Kenneth ‘Skeng Don’ Black has been awarded J$200 million in a default judgement by the Supreme Court against the Housing Agency of Jamaica (HAJ).
(Barbados Nation) Barbados has been plunged into mourning with the death of Prime Minister David Thompson.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Carib-bean politicians were ex-pressing deep regret at the death of Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson, who passed away at his private residence following a prolonged battle with pancreatic cancer.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The death toll from a cholera epidemic in central Haiti topped 200 yesterday as the government and its aid partners doubled efforts to stop the disease from reaching the crowded, earthquake-ravaged capital.
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