(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica’s Police Chief, Rear Admiral Hardley Lewin, has tendered his resignation to the Police Service Commission, ending weeks of speculation that a show-down with the government was imminent, The Gleaner has learnt.
(Trinidad Express) – All that remained of six-year-old Khris Ramkhelawan were his burnt bones after the car in which the boy was a back-seat passenger burst into flames after slamming into a guard rail along the Southern Main Road near Trantrill Road, Spring Village.
(Trinidad Express) – Two women and two men are currently assisting the Tobago Homicide Bureau with investigations into the sister island’s latest murder.
Bleak outlook The Economist Intelligence Unit, a respected think tank, says economic conditions in the Caribbean may deteriorate further before they improve.
(BBC) The UK’s Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies have been told to improve standards of regulation, and find new methods of raising tax.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning will tomorrow meet with Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday to discuss crime and constitutional reform among other issues of national importance but which are unlikely to include the woes of the depositors and shareholders of the Hindu Credit Union (HCU).
(Barbados Nation) Rejecting opposition forecasts, Government is predicting a ten per cent decline in tourist arrivals by year-end.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela said on Friday it had arrested eight Colombians and two local residents suspected of paramilitary activities on the border between the two feuding South American neighbours.
– president designates new nominee PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Hours after Haiti’s Senate voted Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis out of office on Friday after lawmakers criticized her performance in promoting economic recovery in the impoverished Caribbean nation, President Rene Preval designated Jean Max Bellerive to be prime minister of the Caribbean country, a ruling party senator said.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia and the United States signed a pact yesterday increasing US access to military bases in the South American country, deepening its standing as Washington’s main ally in the region.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Law enforcement agencies have been put on alert for a deadly weapon, concealed in a cellphone, known as the “mobile phone gun.”
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The drama started about 11 on Thursday morning while work was being done on a section of the roof of the terminal building.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate foreign relations committee approved Venezuela’s request to join the South American trade bloc Mercosur yesterday despite concerns over President Hugo Chavez’s thwarting of democracy.
(Trinidad Express) – Kidnap victim Imran Mohammed-Khan owes his freedom to a brother and to the police officers who caught the suspects and killed them all in an alleged shoot-out on Wednesday.
Old Harbour, St Catherine (Jamaica Observer) – The police on Wednesday morning shot dead three men in an alleged gunbattle, which lasted for approximately half-hour, in the quiet, upscale New Harbour Village in this busy town.
(Trinidad Guardian) – The fight for undocumented workers in the US has moved from the pulpit to the streets, and finally to Capitol Hill.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Patrick Manning has spent in excess of $1million on 32 foreign trips between January 2007 and March 31 this year.
Bahamas bank delisted A Bahamas-based bank is among firms and individuals removed from an international blacklist by the UN Security Council’s Taliban and al Qaeda sanctions committee.
(Trinidad Express) Two days after Prime Minister Patrick Manning announced in Tobago that he had no desire to become the nation’s executive president, as proposed in the draft constitution, he has made an about turn by indicating “if the people want me, I will be prepared to serve”.
(Antigua Sun) Chairman of the Antigua Labour Party Gaston Browne said efforts by a group of United States investors to sue the local government over the Sir Allen Stanford matter is out of line.
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