(Trinidad Guardian) The Tunapuna Piarco Regional Corporation (TPRC) has launched a forensic audit into the purchase of a TT$1 million stainless steel automated public toilet, making it the most costly public convenience in Trinidad.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Winston Dookeran believes the board of Caribbean Airlines should be dissolved.
(Trinidad Express) Former prime minister Basdeo Panday will face a retrial on June 13 for failing to declare a London bank account to the Integrity Commission for three consecutive years while he was prime minister.
(Trinidad Express) Representative of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute Boyd Reid said the Joint Consultative Council (JCC) for the construction industry supports government in its quest to reform procurement legislation.
(Barbados Nation) Close to 300 employees at the NCO Financial Services (Barbados SRL) will be on the breadline at the end of May.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Left-wing groups and lawmakers close to Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez burned effigies of top officials yesterday to protest the extradition to Colombia of a suspected senior rebel leader.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has ordered an immediate halt to the bulldozing of farmlands throughout Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) Murdered businessman Anthony Chen was identified by police as the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Chinese businesswoman Xue Hua Shan.
(Barbados Nation) Shanique Myrie is free to return to Barbados and point a finger at who she alleges assaulted her at the Grantley Adams International Airport last month.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dirty money can be laundered in T&T through real estate, jewelry stores, money transfers, on-line lottery games, plus other business lines, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A delegation of Libyan officials is in Venezuela to discuss possible peaceful solutions to the war in the North African country, Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Two cousins were shot dead while asleep at their Arima home early Monday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Contractor General Greg Christie has made yet another call for a more aggressive approach in the fight against corruption.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Carlton ‘Spragga Benz’ Grant is claiming to be a victim of a conspiracy to smear his reputation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s dispute with Barbados over the alleged ill-treatment of 20-year-old Shanique Myrie could be headed to the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she believes the board of Caribbean Airlines Ltd should continue to work together.
(Trinidad Express) A restaurant owner was gunned down in front his Ellerslie Plaza, Maraval, business on Sunday, in what the police are describing as a hit.
SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Beware, Naga Viper. Your reign as the world’s hottest chili pepper may be coming to a close.
(Trinidad Express) Australian oil and gas producer Range Resources Ltd is to take full control of three production licences in active onshore oilfields in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) Fraud Squad officers, who were called in to probe a fraud incident at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs) last year, were instructed to pull the plug on their probe even before it could have begun.
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