(Barbados Nation) “An open attack on press freedom.” That is how the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) has termed the threats made by the Prime Minister’s political advisor, Hartley Henry to Sunday Sun editor Carol Martindale.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country.
(BBC) The Belize government has nationalised the country’s leading telecommunications company, Belize Telemedia.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – The developing world sees only 5 percent of the world’s spending on cancer treatment, despite accounting for around half of new cases and nearly two-thirds of cancer deaths, a report published on Monday said.
(Barbados Nation) Unfair to politicians and unsupportive of its own people when they’re in trouble!
Seven people died in two house fires in Central Trinidad between Friday night and Saturday morning.
Independent media in democratic countries can choose to facilitate thought and discussion.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 30-year-old mother of three has been fatally stabbed by her common-law husband in Arima, two weeks after she fled from an abusive relationship.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Thousands of Venezuelans joined rival marches in Caracas yesterday over a controversial education law that critics say strengthens Presi-dent Hugo Chavez’s grip over schools and universities.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Pro-business candidates likely will dominate the race to take over from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with his handpicked successor and the governor of the nation’s richest state ahead of emerging leftist rivals.
The recent imposition of direct rule by the UK in the Turks and Caicos Islands is a regrettable, forced step backwards, CARICOM has said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Sugar officials now acknowledge it will take US$39 million to produce the 79,000 tonnes of sugar forward sold to Eridania Suisse SA from the next crop, and not US$21 million as initially announced.
…heroine pleased(Trinidad Express) The man disarmed and disabled by the woman he intended to rob, has turned out to be a dangerous criminal suspect wanted by police in connection with murder, kidnapping and robberies.
(Trinidad Express) A mother who found a gunman outside her home intent on robbing and killing, saved herself and her teenage daughters on Monday.
(Barbados Nation) One million dollars – and counting! That’s the estimate which chairman and chief executive officer Edwin Thirlwell put on the damage done by a fire raging on Tuesday night at the headquarters of BICO, the big ice-cream maker.
(Trinidad Express) Locking them out of their offices was the final straw that broke the backs of CLICO insurance sales agents.
(Jamaica Observer) A plan by the People’s National Party Youth Organisation (PNPYO) to field a candidate in next month’s by-election in North West Clarendon will result in its immediate expulsion from the party, authoritative PNP sources have told the Observer.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Hurricane Bill trekked west-northwest over the open Atlantic yesterday and was poised to develop into a major hurricane, but its forecast path seemed likely to miss the U.S.
Jamaica Gleaner) After firing warning shots earlier this year, the Ministry of Finance has dispatched approximately 10,000 letters to local professionals who, it believes, have not been paying their taxes.
(Barbados Nation) Independent Senator and former business leader Sir John Stanley Goddard is dead.
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