Regional News

(Trinidad Express) – One man is in police custody assisting investigators into the murder of husband and wife Bevan and Judith Toby of Runnemede, Tobago, who were burnt to death at their home shortly before noon on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) Sharon Arneaud, the wife of Michael Arneaud, Trinidad and Tobago’s former ambassador to Washington, DC, was killed on Saturday night when a 32-foot boat piloted by her husband slammed into a cliff at Monos Island off Trinidad’s western peninsula.

(Jamaica Observer) – In face of fierce opposition to his current US tour from the gay community, Buju Banton, no stranger to controversy, no doubt is reaching for the ‘Inna Heights’ of his ‘Unchained Spirit’ (in the vein of two of his finest albums), determined not to be outdone by his detractors.

(Trinidad Express) – T&T is ranked as the 98th among countries with the highest consumption of alcohol.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Human rights activists in Colombia are being persecuted and subjected to arbitrary arrest by state security agents, Margaret Sekaggya, UN special rapporteur on human rights defenders, said yesterday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – US and Cuban officials began exploratory talks yesterday on the possibility of restoring direct mail service between their two countries for the first time in 46 years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – The United Kingdom Border Agency has arrested four Jamaican women on suspicion of taking part in bogus marriages.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Trevor Rhone, arguably Jamaica’s greatest playwright, is dead.

(Barbados Nation) –  Because of the indiscriminate practice by some Barbadians of abandoning their elderly relatives at government-owned health care institutions, the elderly care facilities at the four district hospitals are now under severe stress.

(Jamaica Observer) – The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica’s (BNS’) Information Technology (IT) Centre has been implicated in what the police have described as the identity theft of the bank’s former president and chief executive officer William ‘Bill’ Clarke with whom it has been involved in a bitter legal battle.

(Trinidad Express) – Attorney General John Jeremie on Monday hit back hard, taking serious issue with the decision of Justice Rajendra Narine to have investigated, allegations that Prime Minister Patrick Manning promised Yasin Abu Bakr that his government would not seize Jamaat property, in exchange for assistance to the PNM in the 2002 election campaign.

(Barbados Nation) – Jasper Watson, the lead investigator into the murder of Grenada’s Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and his cabinet, has described Bernard Coard as a cold-blooded killer who wanted power at any cost.

(This is an edited version of an exclusive Q and A interview granted by Bernard Coard to journalist Raoul Pantin.

(Trinidad Express) Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Carla Brown-Antoine received a copy of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr’s contentious 26-page affidavit on May 6, and forwarded it to the acting Commissioner of Police shortly after.

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican police have rubbished claims by sections of the British media and gays rights activists that the killing of British diplomat, John Terry, was a homophobic attack.

(Trinidad Express) On May 5, 2009, the Privy Council dismissed an affidavit filed by Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr.

(Barbados Nation) – A law which gives illegal aliens automatic citizenship of Barbados if they reside in the country continuously for ten years, will soon be amended.

MOUNT CAREY, St James (Jamaica Observer) – A post-mortem on the body of John Terry, the 64-year-old honorary British consul, showed that he died from asphyxia due to ligature strangulation associated with other injuries to the neck and head.

(Trinidad Express) – Patricia Robinson, wife of former president and prime minister Arthur NR Robinson, has died.

(Antigua Sun) – An aspiring politician and another man have appeared before the court on charges relating to a sexual offence.