Regional News

Warner’s position questioned Trinidad’s opposition leader, Keith Rowley, wants the country’s integrity commission to determine whether Jack Warner can serve as a minister while holding a senior post at the world football governing body FIFA.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The search for public enemy number one, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke, has turned to communities and individuals linked to the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP).

(Trinidad Guardian) Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) secretary general Satnarayan Maharaj is accusing Indian High Commissioner to T&T, His Excellency Malay Mishra, of attempting to destabilise the Hindu community of T&T and dictate the pace of the group.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The government has been pressed to pick up the tab to bury the casualties of last week’s Tivoli Gardens incursion.

(Trinidad Express) – A 38-year-old mother of three is seeking legal action and calling on the relevant authorities to thoroughly investigate an incident on Wednesday in which she was bitten about the body by two pitbulls.

Call for education review There has been a call for a review of the Caribbean’s education system to better address the needs of students.

(Jamaica Observer) – The Japanese government on Thursday handed over a grant of US$2.65 million to the Jamaica Social Investment Fund to bolster the Jamaica Community Crime and Violence Prevention Programme.

(Jamaica Observer) – Jamaica is seeking US$1 billion in loans and grants to help remove dons and rebuild the poor communities they have long dominated, reports Bloomberg News.

(Barbados Nation) – A Roman Catholic priest on Wednesday lauded the late Norman Faria as a sincere man who sought justice for all.

Golding tours Tivoli Jamaica’s Prime Minister Bruce Golding has met residents of Tivoli Gardens, one week after gun battles between security forces and supporters of alleged drug lord Christopher Coke.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) used its majority in Parliament to secure the position of Bruce Golding as prime minister despite the parliamentary opposition mobilising all its members to remove him.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Faithful followers of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez commonly defend any failures of his more than a decade in power by saying he must have been unknowingly misled by ministers and sycophants.

MIAMI (Reuters) – The 2010 Atlantic hurricane season will be even more active than feared, leading US forecasters said yesterday as they predicted 10 hurricanes, five of them major, with a 76 percent likelihood that a major hurricane would hit the US coastline.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Clashes between leftist guerrilla groups killed at least nine suspected rebels in northeast Colombia in a fight for control over a drug route, a government military commander said yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama held talks with his Peruvian counterpart Alan Garcia on Tuesday and praised his stewardship of the Andean country’s economy during the global economic crisis.

US ends relief operations The US military has ended major relief operations in Haiti, five months after the devastating earthquake struck, the Southern Command announced on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Camille Robinson-Regis, Glenda Morean and other politically-appointed diplomats are to be replaced “shortly,” well-placed government sources confirmed on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Traffic jams and flooding will be two of the pressing issues that Jack Warner, newly appointed Works and Transport Minister, will be tackling.

VANCOUVER, (Reuters) – Former Canadian Prime  Minister Brian Mulroney had inappropriate business dealings  with German-Canadian arms dealer Karlheinz Schreiber that  included secret cash payments, a inquiry reported on Monday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Two men believed to be members of the criminal enterprise run by Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke were among nine persons arrested in the upper St Andrew neighbourhood of Kirkland Heights on Sunday during a massive military-police operation in search of the alleged drug kingpin.