Regional News

(Barbados Nation) President of the Barbados Association of Retired Persons (BARP), Kathleen Drayton, is dead.

(Antigua Sun) – The Jamaica/Antigua Association wants government to consider having a special building for use as an Immigration Holding Facility.

(Antigua Sun) – Starting 20 July, all non-nationals who wish to renew their work permits must first verify contributions to statutory organisations.

CDB seeks funding change The president of the Caribbean Development Bank, Compton Bourne, has told BBC Caribbean that the bank would like to raise additional funds to onlend to the region.

(Barbados Nation) – It’s true: Bajan men love Guyanese women. And Bajan women tend to be somewhat suspicious of Guyanese women.

(Trinidad Express) President of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide says he is unaware of attempts to remove Justice David Hayton from the court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Legislation presented in Parliament on Friday will facilitate pension increases for former Presidents Sir Ellis Clarke and ANR Robinson and will also benefit the surviving spouse of the late President Noor Hassanali, according to Public Administration Minister Kennedy Swaratsingh.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning is vowing to deal with the call by the Law Association for the removal of Attorney General John Jeremie as soon as he returns home from duty abroad.

Antiviral drugs donated The US has announced it will provide 420,000 courses of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu to fight swine flu in Latin America and the Caribbean.

(Antigua Sun) – A report into investigations concerning the granting of temporary residence to non-nationals by the Immigration Department will soon be released.

(Trinidad Express) – President of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide issued a statement on Tuesday reprimanding one of his own judges.

(Antigua Sun) – A Jamaican woman was recently severely reprimanded before being ordered deported when she appeared in the St John’s Magistrates’ Court.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Accused hijacker Stephen Fray’s lawyer George Thomas wants the Supreme Court to grant his client privilege to be placed in an institution where he can be treated for paranoid schizophrenia.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians can expect a 60 per cent increase in water rates from today.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister David Thompson is disheartened by the responses to his domestic immigration policy coming from regional leaders. 

(Trinidad Guardian) Eighty-five workers of Caribbean Steel Mills (CSM) will soon be on the breadline as the company has decided to stop manufacturing steel products.

(Antigua Sun) – Leroy King may only be the first on a list of Antiguans to be named in the financial scandal that crumbled the Stanford empire.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Some of Haiti’s sitting legislators have vowed to block newly elected senators from taking office, in a protest against the exclusion from the ballot of candidates from one popular party.

(Barbados Nation) – An armed bandit last Saturday night left a family $60,000 in the red when he made off with their clients’ gold.

Dominican leader invited to Caricom meeting Foreign ministry sources in the Dominican Republic say President Leonel Fernandez has been invited to attend this week’s Caricom summit in Georgetown.