(Jamaica Gleaner) – Five persons including a female, said to be the sister of St Elizabeth’s most-wanted man, were taken into custody following clampdown operations against an illegal lottery scam in Warminster and Leeds district.
Cheaper drugs under Clinton deal HIV patients in developing countries could get cheaper drugs under agreements signed between former US President Bill Clinton’s foundation and two drug companies.
(Trinidad Express) – Police are investigating the deaths of a police constable and his wife whose bodies were found at her workplace in Curepe on Wednesday afternoon.
(Barbados Nation) – Should a hurricane or an earthquake strike, about 75 per cent of Barbados’ homes could be reduced to rubble due to shoddy construction.
(Trinidad Express) – A ten-year-old is being treated at hospital after her mother allegedly burnt her hand in a hot pot of rice.
(Trinidad Express) – The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has agreed to extradite a Trinidadian man wanted in this country for drug trafficking after being given the assurance by the State that the prisoner will not be confined to inhumane prison conditions.
Court adjourns sex case against pastor KINGSTON, Jamaica (Antigua Sun) – Jamaican-born pastor, Paul Lewis is to return to court on 4 September after the prosecution was successful in getting a court to allow him more time to prepare for the sex-related charges against the US-based pastor.
LA REFORMA, Guatemala, (Reuters) – Residents of a poor Guatemalan town have rallied around a family sought by the United States for drug trafficking but respected at home for handing out food, jobs and medicine to people in need.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – South America’s hardline leftist leaders yesterday criticized U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. policy on Honduras’ political crisis is not aimed at supporting any particular individual, the State Department said in a new letter that implied softening support for ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A United States-registered twin-engine aircraft believed to be on a drug mission to Jamaica crashed on Monday morning on a private road owned by Windalco Bauxite Company in Schwallenburgh district, near the St Ann-St Catherine border, killing its two occupants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that the country’s two largest coffee roasters would be nationalized.
(Jamaica Observer) – Gunmen on Sunday morning shot dead a 56-year-old policeman and injured his son, 25, in the parish of Westmoreland.
More criticism of planned APD increase The head of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said Monday that the planned increase in the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) will hinder efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries.
(Trinidad Express) A soldier who once trained and enlisted as a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force elite Special Forces Unit has been convicted alongside six others for a series of offences arising out of the kidnapping and murder of US war veteran Balram Maharaj.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has awarded a contract worth more than TT$2.1 billion to a subsidiary of an Italian company to supply four helicopters for use by the country’s Air Guard, Web sites and wire services have reported.
(Jamaica Gleaner) South Central St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster has decided to give up the land of her birth – the United States of America (USA).
(Barbados Nation) Govern-ment is concerned that landlords are kicking Barbadian tenants from rental homes and converting them into rooms.
(Antigua Sun) – The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has renewed efforts to track down the sources of illegal guns entering the country.
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