(Jamaica Gleaner) A senior member of the Obama administration revealed on Tuesday that a “series” of extradition requests have been made by the United States government for Jamaicans to be sent abroad for trial, but US officials are tight-lipped as to whether local elected officials are on the list.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Reverend Keaven Dixon’s last posting on Facebook, the popular social-networking portal, on July 21 was a portent of his own death five days later, even as he warned a friend to consider that he could die at any moment.
(Trinidad Express) It now has control of both Central and Local Government.
SANTA CLARA, Cuba (Reuters) – Cuban leaders will not be rushed into decisions about economic reforms and whatever they do will be faithful to the ideals of the Cuban revolution, Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura said yesterday in a nationally televised speech.
(Trinidad Express) – The person who murdered Diane Williams and her ten-year-old son Shaquille Morgan, and sawed their bodies into pieces, may have been responsible for several other deaths in San Fernando.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A proposed overhaul of Brazilian forest policy being considered in Congress is raising concern that the world’s largest forest could be left more vulnerable than in decades to razing by farmers despite recent progress in protecting it.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s words have been thrown back at him by the People’s National Party (PNP), which has yet again declared he cannot be trusted.
(Jamaica Observer) The Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), in a ground-breaking achievement, has agreed on what should be the cap on the amount of money individuals or groups can contribute to the operations of political parties.
(Trinidad Express) The search for the missing heads of a dismembered boy and woman, ended on Saturday in an abandoned canefield near the Corinth’s Teachers College, Ste Madeleine.
(Jamaica Observer) Thirty-five-year-old Richard Oneil of Eric Avenue, Kingston 20, died after he was stabbed during a dispute with a female exotic dancer on Ripon Road, Kingston 5, on Saturday.
(Trinidad Express) – Three people have died of dengue haemorrhagic fever, while tests are being conducted to determine if two others also died of the illness.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Classifying ‘Shottas’ as “waste sperm”, the man tagged the ‘Five Star General’, Rodney ‘Bounty Killer’ Pryce, said it was time for the government to replace dons, commence the fight against poverty, and leave the police to carry out the job of crime fighting.
SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it would begin a “sacred war” against the United States and South Korea at “any time necessary” based on its nuclear deterrent, in response to “reckless” military exercises by the allies.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales called yesterday for an emergency meeting of South American presidents to resolve a stand-off between Colombia and neighbouring Venezuela that has raised tensions in the Andes.
HAVANA (Reuters) – President Raul Castro will mark the 57th anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution tomorrow on a bit of a roll internationally, but still struggling to modernise one of the world’s last communist economies.
DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) – A stampede killed at least 17 people after mass panic broke out in a tunnel at a Love Parade techno music festival in Germany yesterday.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – An emergency alarm that could have warned workers aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico drilling rig was intentionally disabled, a rig engineer told US investigators on Friday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s army warned neighbour Colombia yesterday it was ready to repel any attacks a day after President Hugo Chavez cut ties over Bogota’s charges that Venezuela was harboring leftist Colombian guerrillas.
(Trinidad Express) Twenty years later, there is going to be a Commission of Enquiry into the July 27, 1990 attempted coup which was led by Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen.
AMSTERDAM, (Reuters) – A Dutch court fined commodities trader Trafigura 1 million euros ($1.3 million) yesterday for illegally exporting toxic waste to Ivory Coast which ended up being dumped in the open air.
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