Regional News

Suspected drug plane crashes in Jamaica, two dead

(Jamaica Gleaner) A United States-registered twin-engine aircraft believed to be on a drug mission to Jamaica crashed on Monday morning on a private road owned by Windalco Bauxite Company in Schwallenburgh district, near the St Ann-St Catherine border, killing its two occupants.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

More criticism of planned APD increase The head of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said Monday that the planned increase in the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) will hinder efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries.

Killers of US veteran facing life sentences without parole

(Trinidad Express) A soldier who once trained and enlisted as a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force elite Special Forces Unit has been convicted alongside six others for a series of offences arising out of the kidnapping and murder of US war veteran Balram Maharaj.

Trinidad awards TT$2b helicopter contract

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has awarded a contract worth more than TT$2.1 billion to a subsidiary of an Italian company to supply four helicopters for use by the country’s Air Guard, Web sites and wire services have reported.

Room switch

(Barbados Nation) Govern-ment is concerned that landlords are kicking Barbadian tenants from rental homes and converting them into rooms.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

Turks police continue search Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands say they are keeping up search and recovery efforts for missing Haitians whose boat sank earlier this week.

Cuba ponders reduced state role in economy

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cash-strapped Cuba should  consider putting more of its state-run economy in the hands of  producers, as President Raul Castro has done with agriculture,  the country’s top economic commentator said yesterday.

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