Regional News

(Go-Jamaica) The Ewarton police are now investigating the circumstances of the shooting death of Special Constable Mickhail Hogarth on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) At the base of a hill at Basta Hall, Couva, lies a leaking, galvanise hovel occupied by four mentally challenged siblings and a six-year-old relative.

(Jamaica Gleaner) David Smith, the embattled head of the failed foreign currency trading scheme Olint, has been indicted on 23 charges in the United States.

(Trinidad Express) National carrier Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) and Air India are working toward a bilateral air service agreement to improve air travel between Trinidad and Tobago and India, Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner has said.

(Jamaica Observer) Professor Trevor Munroe wants the Government to begin examining ways to make it difficult for lawyers representing persons charged with certain criminal offences to receive payments from the funds of their clients’ ill-gotten enterprises.

(Trinidad Guardian) Petróleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) and the Government of T&T on Monday signed the first agreement unifying the gas reserves located in the Lorán-Manatee field alongside their maritime border, whose certified gas reserves amount to 10 trillion cubic feet.

(Barbados Nation) The prevalence of dengue fever in Barbados is at a critical level, Minister of Health Donville Inniss disclosed on Monday.

Trinidad Express) Central Bank directors have ordered that St Clair-based Motor and General Insurance Company’s operations remain suspended for 45 days.

(Trinidad Express) Re-latives of murdered 37-year-old Carapichaima accountant Neeshad Ali received some measure of closure on Sunday night with the rescue of his new bride, Laila, 27, and the couple’s daughter, one-year-old Alia, who were kidnapped after Ali was killed.

(Jamaica Observer) The Westmorland Police fatally shot five gunmen in two separate incidents in the parish yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) Works and Transport Minister Jack Warner says he intends to take the issue of flooding and the environment to Caricom.

(Trinidad Express) Nearly ten years after being discharged by former High Court judge and now Justice Minister, Herbert Volney, on charges relating to TT$13 million worth of cocaine and a gun and ammunition, Rick Anthony Gomes was on Saturday found guilty of the same charges.

Police seek gangsters for Tredegar Park massacre (Jamaica Observer) The shock and horror of the savagery unleashed by marauding gunmen on Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine early yesterday morning was still vividly displayed on the faces of residents at mid-morning.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago is about to sign an agreement with Venezuela to begin exploiting hydrocarbon reserves located between the two countries.

(Trinidad Express) In an effort to “pursue vigorously any wrongdoing” in state agencies, a five-member team of forensic auditors has been mandated to investigate several of them simultaneously, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan announced on Friday.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Gunmen in Jamaica killed eight  people early yesterday in suspected gang killings on the  Caribbean tourist island, police said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Known as a transnational contract killer who considered the gun his “best friend”, Cedric ‘Doggie’ Murray was on Thursday cut down in a daring daylight gun battle during a police operation at the border of Manchester and Clarendon.

VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – Canadian authorities unloaded  a cramped cargo ship yesterday of nearly 500 Tamil asylum  seekers from Sri Lanka whose arrival has sparked a national  debate over the country’s immigration and refugee laws.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former coup leader and  convicted cocaine smuggler Desi Bouterse was sworn in yesterday as president of Suriname and promised to work with the  opposition to develop the South American country.

(Jamaica Gleaner) An initiative between government and private-sector agencies supporting crime prevention and community safety using young inner-city men to promote positive messages was formally launched Tuesday at the Fletcher’s Land Commu-nity Centre in Kingston.