Regional News

(Antigua Sun) – A Jamaican woman was recently severely reprimanded before being ordered deported when she appeared in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Accused hijacker Stephen Fray’s lawyer George Thomas wants the Supreme Court to grant his client privilege to be placed in an institution where he can be treated for paranoid schizophrenia.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians can expect a 60 per cent increase in water rates from today.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister David Thompson is disheartened by the responses to his domestic immigration policy coming from regional leaders. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Eighty-five workers of Caribbean Steel Mills (CSM) will soon be on the breadline as the company has decided to stop manufacturing steel products.

(Antigua Sun) – Leroy King may only be the first on a list of Antiguans to be named in the financial scandal that crumbled the Stanford empire.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Some of Haiti’s sitting legislators have vowed to block newly elected senators from taking office, in a protest against the exclusion from the ballot of candidates from one popular party.

(Barbados Nation) – An armed bandit last Saturday night left a family $60,000 in the red when he made off with their clients’ gold.

Dominican leader invited to Caricom meeting Foreign ministry sources in the Dominican Republic say President Leonel Fernandez has been invited to attend this week’s Caricom summit in Georgetown.

(Trinidad Express) Camille Daniel died a hero. This was the sentiment expressed by Daniel’s husband, Lance Cpl Stanley Nottingham, and acting Police Commissioner James Philbert.

Martinique offered more autonomy French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has offered the island of Martinique a referendum on autonomy.

(Trinidad Express) – The wife of a soldier who drove into the West End Police Station in an attempt to escape carjackers, who were holding her at gunpoint in her car, was shot dead in front of the station on Wednesday.

(Antigua Sun) – The government is preparing to carry out a comprehensive review of its policies relating to immigration, work permits and citizenship.

(Trinidad Express) – Another student attending the University of the Southern Caribbean (USC) in Maracas, St Joseph, has contracted Influenza A/H1N1 and the family says it is all the school’s fault for not informing the student body about the first case in a timely manner.

(Trinidad Express) Exporting Liquified National Gas (LNG) to Jamaica is now a national priority for this country’s Government.

How cash-squeezed insurance giant bankrolled 2007 electionsBy Camini Marajh Investigative Desk Trinidad Express Lawrence Duprey’s CL Financial Group provided scarcely imaginable largesse to the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) party in the last general election at a time when it was already on the ropes-short on cash and highly leveraged.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ghost gangs have surfaced again in the Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) in at least two of the ten regions in Trinidad, according to auditors in the field.

(Trinidad Express) – The discovery of the body of Tecia Henry in John John on Wednesday means there are now only 78 children still missing in this country from January 2006.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The Jamaican-born international pastor, who allegedly gave two teenage girls money in exchange for sexual favours, was remanded when he appeared in the Savanna-la-mar Resident Magistrate’s Court late Wednesday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The body of ten-year-old Tecia Henry was found yesterday under a house in Laventille.