(Jamaica Gleaner) Stunned by an alarming revelation that thousands of functionally illiterate children were promoted to high schools at the start of the new academic year in September, members of Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday called the situation a crisis and demanded immediate remedial action from the Ministry of Education.
(Trinidad Guardian) The “underground economy” in T&T from illicit operations is valued at TT$60 billion, according to two-year old estimates by the Royal Bank, UNC Senator Wade Mark said on Monday.
(Barbados Nation) The centuries old tradition of preliminary inquiries as a precursor to High Court trials could soon be a thing of the past.
(Trinidad Express) Outrage continues to build, both within the People’s National Movement and in the wider community, over the decision to stop for four months the Commission of Enquiry into UDeCOTT and the Construction Sector established by the Cabinet; a decision which came at the insistence of the Urban Development Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago (UDeCOTT), in clear defiance of the wishes of Attorney General John Jeremie, conveyed first to the company’s attorneys in the Parliament chamber during a House of Representatives meeting and confirmed to the Senate on Thursday during the debate on the Validation Bill.
(Jamaica Gleaner) More than half of the students who left secondary school last year in Jamaica have no subjects and no skills.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican dancehall act Bounty Killa was denied entry to Trinidad and Tobago on Friday and sent back to Jamaica by Immigration authorities upon arrival at Piarco International Airport.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A six-year-old girl remains critically injured after gunmen invaded her home.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran de facto President Roberto Micheletti met yesterday with a delegation of US lawmakers who have called on the Obama administration to stop supporting the return of ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Between 30 and 40 members of Colombia’s biggest rebel army were killed when government forces bombed their position in the mountainous central province of Tolima, a local official said yesterday.
LIMA (Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted and sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for wiretapping opponents and paying bribes to lawmakers and publishers during his rule from 1990 to 2000.
HAVANA (Reuters) – A senior US diplomat who participated in recent talks in Havana about resuming bilateral mail service with Cuba stayed around to meet with Cuban officials and other Cubans in the latest sign of thawing US-Cuba relations.
Mixed response to UK recommendations The British run Caribbean territories have given mixed response to a UK government backed financial report telling them to implement tighter regulations to deal with money laundering, tax evasion and the financing of terrorism.
No plans to change laws Prime Minister of the Bahamas Hubert Ingraham says his government is not planning to change its offshore banking laws, even though it will comply with international tax regulations.
(Antigua Sun) – Minister of Tourism John Maginley, President of the Antigua and Barbuda Cruise Tourism Association Nathan Dundas and Director of the Antigua Pier Group (APG) Conrad Pole are expected to meet representatives from Carnival Cruise Line today in Miami, Florida.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government is facing rising criticism at home over its handling of the Honduran crisis as senior lawmakers accuse it of allowing the ousted president to use its embassy as a political platform.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The financial crisis facing the Government has caused Prime Minister Bruce Golding to cut his foreign trips to a bare minimum.
Slow economic growth predicted The Grenada economy is not expected to grow again until 2011.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama has not fulfilled his promises to change US foreign policy and may not be fully in control of the government, Cuba’s foreign minister told the United Nations yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) – A newborn baby found abandoned in a plastic bag on Fitts Village Beach, St James, on Saturday is doing well at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH).
(Trinidad Express) – No one saw the gunman who wounded a Guyanese national outside a bar in Princes Town on Saturday night.
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