Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Three new mega farms are expected to be up and running by the end of the year, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath said on Tuesday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Legalize It and Equal Rights, Peter Tosh’s landmark albums for Columbia Records, will be reissued June 21 by Columbia/Legacy Records, a subsidiary of Sony Music International.

(Trinidad Express) Three new mega farms are expected to be up and running by the end of the year, Food Production Minister Vasant Bharath said on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Police detective Darwin Ghouralal on Monday appeared in court charged with murdering eight-year-old Daniel Guerra.

(Jamaica Observer) Manufacturers in Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) including one large player are eyeing Jamaica with a view to establishing operations here, Minister of Industry Commerce and Investment Karl Samuda revealed last week.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians will soon be paying more for electricity, following recent hikes in the price of flour, eggs and bottled gas.

(Reuters) – I haven’t seen my Aunt  Thelma in about 15 years, so imagine my surprise when an email  rolled in on Sunday with the subject line: “Brazilian real.”

(Jamaica Observer) Cabinet has appointed a ministerial commission to review the recommendations made in the report of the National Commission on Ganja, which was chaired by the late Professor Barry Chevannes and submitted in 2001.

(Jamaica Observer) Yet another Jamaican woman has come forward with accusations of mistreatment by the authorities at the Grantley Adams International Airport in Bridgetown, Barbados.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Public Services Association’s (PSA) decision to accept a five per cent wage settlement with Government—which is estimated to cost TT$600 million—is now being termed a “sell out.”

(Trinidad Express) There are reports of people from small Caribbean islands being held as virtual slaves in homes in Trinidad, said Foreign Affairs Minister Surujrattan Rambachan.

(Barbados Nation) Opposition Leader Owen Arthur is warning that the Shanique Myrie incident must not be allowed to tarnish relations between Barbados and Jamaica.

(Jamaica Observer) Barbadian police on Friday charged two of their colleagues who have been accused of sexually assaulting a Jamaican woman while in their custody in late February.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Seventy-nine-year-old Rachel Brown had become fearful her son-in-law Wayne Llewellyn could kill her and members of her family.

(Jamaica Observer) The Organisation of Caribbean Utility Regulators (OOCUR) suggests there is a prospect of market failure arising from the acquisition of mobile telephone operator Claro Jamaica by rival Digicel Group and has called on regional governments to closely monitor the situation in the interest of consumers and the economies in general.

(Jamaica Observer) The two members of the Royal Barbados Police Force who are accused in the rape and sexual assault of a 27-year-old Jamaican woman have been formally charged.

(Jamaica Observer) Russia’s UC Rusal has linked its planned re-opening of the Kikvine alumina plant in Manchester to being allowed to purchase the Jamaica government’s 45 per cent stake in the Jamalco refinery in Naine, Clarendon, industry sources in London and Moscow have told the Financial Gleaner.

(Antigua Observer) The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has imposed a temporary ban on the importation of several agricultural produce because of a glut in local production.

(Barbados Nation) The lawyer representing Jamaican Shanique Myrie says the conclusion of his government’s official report into her claims of abuse by officials at the Grantley Adams International Airport, shows there is “considerable merit” in what she said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five policyholders with the Colonial Life Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd (Clico) have sought judicial intervention over the Minister of Finance’s intended payout plan for policyholders in the 2010-2011 budget presentation.