– ‘Go nah’ PNMites tell Manning (Trinidad Express) – Diego Martin West MP Dr Keith Rowley, on whom the leadership trained its guns for the last two years, was on Thursday embraced by the General Council which asked PNM parliamentarians to indicate to President George Maxwell Richards that they were supporting him for the position of opposition leader.
(Trinidad Express) The newly-elected People’s Partnership Government (PPG) headed by UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has been sworn in, in Trinidad and Tobago.
Business leaders want crime talks St Lucia’s private sector has called for a meeting of stakeholders to address an upsurge in murders on the island.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Colombia should investigate a sharp rise in killings by gangs largely composed of former paramilitaries who have turned to crime after being demobilised, a UN human rights envoy said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) – “There will be no witch hunt but we will ensure that those who have done the crime will do the time,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar stated in her first press conference following her swearing-in at Knowsley Building, Port of Spain, on Wednesday.
Caricom and US talk security Caricom security officials have received an assurance from a top US diplomat that Washington was committed to $45 million pledged by President Barack to underpin a security partnership with the region.
(Trinidad Express) A new chapter of Trinidad and Tobago history was completed at Knowsley Building, Queen’s Park West, yesterday afternoon, when Kamla Persad-Bissessar was sworn in as the nation’s first female Prime Minister.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former Suriname dictator Desi Bouterse’s coalition won the most seats in parliamentary elections, but fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to name a new president, preliminary results showed yesterday.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Gunfire resounded in parts of Jamaica’s capital Kingston yesterday as security forces fought armed supporters of a fugitive alleged drug lord in a fourth day of violence that has killed nearly 50 people.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Gunfire resounded in parts of Jamaica’s capital Kingston today as security forces fought armed supporters of a fugitive alleged drug lord in a fourth day of violence that has killed nearly 50 people.
By Mark McGowan in Paramaribo The Mega Combination coalition led by controversial former President Desi Bouterse was tipped to win Suriname’s polls after elections yesterday and was last night close to a majority of seats.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister-elect Kamla Persad-Bissessar promised yesterday to rebuild a nation fractured by allegations of fiscal mismanagement and corruption under the defeated People’s National Movement.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica declared a state of emergency in two parishes of its capital Kingston yesterday after shooting and firebomb attacks on police stations by suspected supporters of an alleged drug lord who faces extradition to the United States.
By Dr Indira Rampersaud (Trinidad Guardian) “The truth is that no one can predict these elections with any degree of certainty as it seems to be a dead heat race in some of the critical marginal constituencies.”
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, dropped a bombshell on Friday when he declared that the highest echelons of the force had indeed authorised a constable to give United States authorities wiretapped information on alleged gang lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
(Jamaica Observer) The police on Friday appealed to the lawyers retained by Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to take him to the nearest police station in order for the extradition warrant against him to be executed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Embattled west Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke received a fillip on Thursday as thousands of vocal residents of Tivoli Gardens and adjoining communities took to the streets supporting him.
(Nassau Guardian) – A 64-year-old Guyanese teacher denied that he indecently assaulted a 16-year-old female student when he was arraigned in an Eleuthera magistrates’ court this week.
(BVI Platinum News) – The matter against Guyanese, Dwaine Pearce could not be proceeded with yesterday because the investigating officer failed to send a prepared file to the Director of Public Prosecutions office.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Ronald Robinson, government senator and state minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, is the first casualty in the messy Manatt, Phelps & Phillips affair that has dogged the government of Jamaica for more than two months.
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