Regional News

PM Golding worried about Caricom Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding has warned that the existence of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) is at risk.

(Jamaica Observer) – Three more cases of Influenza A (H1N1) ‘swine flu’ have been detected by the Ministry of Health, and as with all previous cases, were linked with travel to New York in the United States.

LUXEMBOURG, (Reuters) – European finance ministers  agreed yesterday the bloc should hand billions of euros to poor  countries to help them fight climate change, but environmentalists said the pledge was too vague.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – Brazil is ready to provide its  experience and technology free of charge to African nations  seeking to improve food production and develop biofuels, its  minister for development, industry and trade said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) More crop-over and less commercial content in the music!

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The Ministry of Health’s surveillance team on the weekend discovered five more cases of influenza A (H1N1), formerly known as swine flu.

MONTREAL (Reuters) – The head of the Organization of American States said yesterday he was confident Cuba would eventually rejoin the 34-member organization, but that it would require more dialogue.

(Trinidad Express) – In less than 24 hours a second gun battle between law enforcement officers and suspected bandits occurred along the Churchill Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Brazil’s trade ambassador to the World Trade Organisation said yesterday that the United States had completed a review of its trade policies and was ready to re-engage in stalled global trade talks.

Libya to set up OECS bank Vincentian Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says Libya has agreed to establish a Libyan commercial bank in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) sub-region.

(Trinidad Express) Six weeks after the Sunday Express sent Attorney General John Jeremie a written request for comment on reports of behind-the-scenes manoeuvres to get Dansam Dhansook to withdraw his bribery accusations against two high-ranking government ministers, Jeremie expressed the view that this newspaper was in possession of classified information and should be charged for “perverting and/or attempting to pervert the course of public justice.”

(Jamaica Gleaner) As insurance companies continue to insist that individuals be tested for HIV/AIDS before they qualify for certain policies, the Jamaica Business Council on HIV/AIDS (JABCHA) is urging the providers to offer special coverage for persons living with the disease.

(Barbados Nation) A call has been made for all CARICOM immigrants in Barbados to get their status regularised in light of there being over 2 000 non-nationals in the island’s school system, 227 of whom sat last month’s Barbados Secondary Schools’ Entrance (11-Plus) Exam.

(Trinidad Express) – Caricom Governments are examining the issue ‘of reciprocal’ arrangements for the deportation of criminals.

(Trinidad Express) – A ceiling contractor and his employee were gunned down while buying food at a bar in El Socorro on Wednesday night.

(Antigua Sun) – Several airline officials have expressed concerns over rumours of a possible merger between Caribbean Airlines and regional airline LIAT.

(Trinidad Express) – Gail Joseph was strangled with the bare hands of her killer.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba welcomed the lifting of a Cold War-era ban on its membership in the Organization of American States as “a major victory” yesterday, but made clear Havana does not want to rejoin the group.

(Trinidad Express) – No one could say why a responsible mother of four would travel to a deserted beach to meet a man she had never seen before.

(Trinidad Guardian) – It was total chaos at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, after a power failure.