Regional News

(Trinidad Express) – Domestic abuse claimed the life of a two-year-old boy on Thursday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) -The health ministry in Jamaica was yesterday afternoon on high alert in light of the confirmation of an outbreak of cholera in Haiti.

(Trinidad Express) – A murder charge against Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and his co-accused, Brent “Big Brent” Miller, was discontinued on Thursday after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard said there was not enough evidence to proceed with the case.

(Trinidad Express) – Giselle Balkaran-Phillip, the “battered” wife snatched by her husband and “rescued” at a house in La Brea a week later, is now accusing the police of murdering the man she loved.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – International medical teams are urgently responding to an outbreak of severe diarrhoea in central Haiti that a top government health official said yesterday had killed nearly 50 people in recent days.

(Barbados Nation) – People watched in awe, despair, disgust and a slew of other emotions as historic Sam Lord’s Castle burned on Wednesday evening.

(Trinidad Express) – The husband of 37-year-old kidnap victim Giselle Balkaran-Phillip was shot dead by police on Wednesday where they had gone to rescue her from a house in La Brea.

(Trinidad Express) – Hundreds of public officers swarmed the streets of Port of Spain on Tuesday morning, disrupting traffic and forcing the closure of a portion of St Vincent Street.

MADRID (Reuters) – A Spanish judge has asked the government to begin extradition proceedings against a man living in Venezuela who is suspected of training members of Basque separatist group ETA.

Haiti still in crisis A United Nations expert says quake-ravaged Haiti remains in a “profound humanitarian crisis” and that reconstruction must begin urgently.

(Trinidad Guardian) Regis-tration of births, which took as much as one year in the past, will now be done within seven working days with the introduction of the electronic birth registration system.

(Trinidad Guardian) A female student from Matelot died after she was reportedly stabbed by another female student on Monday, according to information released by the Ministry of Education.

(Trinidad Guardian) A row over copper wire ended in death on Monday, when a teenager shot a Fyzabad mason once in the chest, puncturing his heart.

(Barbados Nation) – Owen Arthur has been sworn in as Leader of the Opposition.

– cops intercept getaway car after Princes Town bar robbery (Trinidad Express) – Just over a day after a woman police constable shot and killed two women, said to be robbery suspects in Tunapuna, police killed two men minutes after they had allegedly robbed a Princes Town bar on Saturday night. 

Haiti prison crisis ends Order has now been restored at the largest prison in Haiti after a hostage crisis.

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Golding’s agreement to a commission of enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair signals an imminent change of leadership, political commentators say.

(Barbados Nation) The die appears cast on Mia Mottley’s leadership of the Barbados Labour Party [BLP].

(Trinidad Express) United National Congress financiers Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson were on Saturday granted a conservatory order blocking their extradition to the US to face charges of money laundering and fraud.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Food production, Land and Marine Affairs has developed a national plan for the cassava industry.