HAVANA, (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro told an interviewer there were times during his long illness when he was at death’s door but now he is mostly recovered and trying to avert nuclear war.
(BBC) France has sent two ministers to the French Caribbean for a first-hand assessment of the dengue epidemic in the islands.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Moving trucks throttling. Heavily armed police personnel standing guard.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Tax officials are warning that there will be no ease-up in the intensity with which they are going after delinquent taxpayers, chief among them being entertainers, businessmen and professionals.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Contractor General Greg Christie has described as “irregular and highly improper” the execution of a contract between the Government and Dehring, Bunting and Golding (DB&G) for the sale of receivables before a formal written agreement was finalised.
(BBC) The controversial subject of the dual nationality of elected officials is haunting another Caribbean country.
– Jamaica Gov’t admits Manatt errors (Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has finally admitted it failed to provide the nation with clarity on the hot-button Manatt, Phelps & Phillips issue which has held centre stage since March.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government will spend TT$83 million on 20,400 laptops for SEA students.
(Trinidad Express) Layne Williams and Anton Marvin Gay, the men accused of murdering Carapichaima accountant Neeshad Ali, and kidnapping the victim’s wife, Lila, and three-year-old daughter, Aleya, on Wednesday told a Chaguanas magistrate they were fearful for their lives.
(Jamaica Gleaner) POLICE say that the man you are looking at in the photograph is wanted for a number of crimes including murder and robbery with aggravation especially in the Linstead area of St Catherine.
(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 36 hours after a Sunday Gleaner exposé on emails involving officials of the United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, Solicitor General Douglas Leys and local attorney Harold Brady, the Government has dismissed the report as old news.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rela-tives of an A-Level student, who died from dengue haemorrhagic fever have accused the two medical institutions that treated him of negligence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Pressure mounted on Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Monday as an umbrella group representing a wide cross-section of Church leaders requested a meeting with him to discuss Sunday’s bombshell email revelations in the Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Contractor General Greg Christie is recommending that criminal charges be laid against former People’s National Party (PNP) government minister Colin Campbell, in what could be a major setback in his desire to return to representational politics.
(Trinidad Express) Two teenagers, one a 14-year-old school dropout, and the other, an 18-year-old, were shot dead at a pre-school in St Joseph early Monday morning.
(Trinidad Express) A municipal police officer was shot and killed by three men who attempted to carjack him along the Uriah Butler Highway near the Grand Bazaar traffic lights on Monday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The People’s National Party (PNP) was on Monday night placed on election alert by its president, Portia Simpson Miller, who suggested that the Sunday Gleaner bombshell, revealing that the Jamaican Government had, in fact, been in bed with a United States law firm, might force the prime minister to quit.
COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chilean miners who survived 18 days after a cave-in received hydration gel and medication through a narrow drill hole yesterday, but officials said it could be months before the men are freed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Email correspondence involving Solicitor General Douglas Leys, local attorney Harold Brady, and officials of the law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips confirms that the United States law firm was working on behalf of the Golding-led Government of Jamaica, even if it had been engaged by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Musician Wyclef Jean plans to appeal his rejection as a candidate in Haiti’s November presidential election, his spokeswoman said yesterday.
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