-influx of Guyanese, Venezuelans seen (Trinidad Express) Chief economist and director of research at the Central Bank Alvin Hilaire has warned that the immigration situation in Trinidad and Tobago could face some serious challenges, given the fact that this country’s economy was still doing better than others in the region, and as such, workers from all over the region could begin flocking here.
…as consumption rises Jamaica Gleaner) Less than two years after Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton urged Jamaicans to make greater use of cassava, heavy demands for the tuber have sent agro processors scurrying for a duty-free licence.
(Jamaica Observer) Head of the delegation of the European Commission to Jamaica, Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, Wednesday criticised the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) for the long time it is taking to implement a $1.3 billion poverty reduction programme, funded by the EU.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – How stable can a nation like Haiti be, where U.N.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica on Wednesday received vital advice from one of the leading personalities in the fight against the Italian Mafia, which came amidst reports that the two countries are working together to fight crime here.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – A would-be hijacker who held more than 180 people at gunpoint aboard a Canadian charter jet in Jamaica in April was jailed for 20 years yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Hugh Wildman, the liquidator of the unregulated investment firm Cash Plus Limited, and his team have discovered US$25 million (J$2.2 billion) that Carlos Hill and his brother Bertram are suspected to have tucked away in a Swiss bank in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
(Barbados Nation) Educator and entertainer Mac Fingall has identified the minibus, dancehall and gang cultures as issues fostering disorder in Barbados In a fiery mood as he and other entertainers signed onto Crime Stoppers Barbados at the corporate offices of Guardian General, Collymore Rock, St Michael, on Tuesday, Fingall pointed to those subculture elements as signs of impending disaster in the society.
(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.
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