Regional News

(Trinidad Express) “This is the worst we have seen.” These words seemed to echo throughout several areas in South Trinidad on Monday as homeowners and business owners tried to deal with the devastation in the wake of heavy showers.

(Jamaica Observer) Special constable James Lemmie, who was attached to Spanish Town Police station, was killed, allegedly by a teenager, on Young Street, Spanish Town about 9:30 Monday night, the CCN said.

LONDON, (Reuters) –  Ministers ordered a shake-up of  the non-EU student visa system in a bid to crack down on illegal  migrants yesterday, saying it was prone to abuse, and opened the  biggest removal centre in Europe to speed up deportations.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Microfinance and its goal of  helping people escape the poverty trap is starting to draw  mainstream investors who, ethical kudos aside, are lured by its  inherent insulation from global financial trends.

(Trinidad Express) Joel Pitt was looking forward to marrying his childhood sweetheart this coming Saturday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Maxine Waters yesterday  became the second Democrat in the U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – This year’s low-oxygen “dead  zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is one of the largest ever, about  the size of Massachusetts, and overlaps areas hit by oil from  BP’s broken Macondo well, Louisiana scientists report.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A mixture of horror, fury and disgust has greeted a video clip showing a man being fatally shot by a group of policemen while he was subdued and lying on the ground.

(Trinidad Express) The proposed appointment of retired Justice of Appeal Mustapha Ibrahim, who was announced on Friday as the chairman of the commission of enquiry into the 1990 coup attempt, has been “reviewed in consultation with the learned judge”, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan stated on Saturday.

(Jamaica Observer) Special Corporal Jerome Cummings was killed on Langston Road in St Andrew yesterday morning.

(Barbados Nation) The Mighty Gabby  returned to competition after a two-year hiatus to snatch the 2010 Pic-O-De-Crop monarchy at Kensington Oval.

Ibrahim to look for mastermind (Trinidad Guardian) A five-member panel, headed by retired Justice of Appeal Mustapha Ibrahim, will seek to trace the mastermind of the July 1990 attempted coup and ascertain if any public or state officials were involved.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo  Chavez yesterday said he deployed military units to repel a  possible attack after Colombia claimed last week his country  harboured leftist rebels, but said he hoped to mend ties soon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Struggling to adjust to a J$1-billion cut in its subvention from the Jamaican Govern-ment, the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, is to introduce several belt-tightening measures in a bid to survive.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – A Chinese-built drilling rig is  expected to arrive in Cuban waters in early 2011, likely  opening the open the way for full-scale exploration of the  island’s untapped offshore fields.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Gay couples rushed to tie  the knot in Argentina yesterday, two weeks after the country  became the first in Latin America to grant them the same  marriage rights as heterosexual couples.

QUITO (Reuters) – South American foreign ministers met in Ecuador yesterday to discuss broken ties between Venezuela and Colombia, with sparks likely over the two Andean nations’ clashing plans to fix a crisis over leftist rebels.

(Trinidad Express) – Slinger Francisco (The Mighty Sparrow) was in good spirits and recuperating well following emergency surgery on Sunday to treat an incarcerated right inguinal hernia.

(Barbados Nation) – A teacher who was growing marijuana in her front yard will have to fork out $25 000 to avoid a 12-month stay at HMP Dodds.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – China has agreed to let two  state-owned agencies finance a stalled $2.6 billion Bahamian  resort project that the developer said would provide the  biggest job stimulus The Bahamas has ever seen.