(Trinidad Express) Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Carla Brown-Antoine received a copy of Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr’s contentious 26-page affidavit on May 6, and forwarded it to the acting Commissioner of Police shortly after.
(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaican police have rubbished claims by sections of the British media and gays rights activists that the killing of British diplomat, John Terry, was a homophobic attack.
(Trinidad Express) On May 5, 2009, the Privy Council dismissed an affidavit filed by Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Yasin Abu Bakr.
(Barbados Nation) – A law which gives illegal aliens automatic citizenship of Barbados if they reside in the country continuously for ten years, will soon be amended.
MOUNT CAREY, St James (Jamaica Observer) – A post-mortem on the body of John Terry, the 64-year-old honorary British consul, showed that he died from asphyxia due to ligature strangulation associated with other injuries to the neck and head.
(Trinidad Express) – Patricia Robinson, wife of former president and prime minister Arthur NR Robinson, has died.
(Antigua Sun) – An aspiring politician and another man have appeared before the court on charges relating to a sexual offence.
Consul ‘murdered’ in Jamaica Police in Jamaica say a British honorary consul has been found dead at his home in Montego Bay, the victim of an apparent murder.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez will discuss major energy and military agreements with Russia during a two-day visit which started yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) – Two police constables caught trying to destroy what appeared to be court exhibits in a bonfire at D’Abadie have been arrested.
PARIS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, telling a French newspaper that the bombing of Gaza late last year was an unprovoked attack.
New Montserrat team Montserrat has a new government after Tuesday’s general election.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – A local intelligence official is warning that the nation is being plunged into a diplomatic nightmare, which is likely to have dire implications for the safety of the public and the economy of the country, with the apparent failure of Jamaican authorities to act on an extradition order for west Kingston strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
TT recovery predicted Trinidad and Tobago Finance Minister Karen Nunez-Tesheira has said the country’s economy will recover next year.
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Venezuela and Iran will each invest $760 million in the other’s energy sectors under deals signed during a visit to Tehran by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Iran’s Oil Ministry website SHANA said yesterday.
(Antigua Sun) – A number of tourists, who accused the police of beating them up, were taken to court yesterday to face several charges.
(Trinidad Express) – The police officer in whose home a quantity of courtroom exhibits was allegedly found has been granted $720,000 bail by a Justice of the Peace.
Jamaica expects more airline seatsIn spite of the gloom surrounding tourism, several Caribbean nations are continuing to report increased airlift for the winter season ahead.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Bernard Coard, the former deputy prime minister of the short-lived People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) in Grenada, who was imprisoned for 26 years for the murder of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in 1983, intends to join his wife in Jamaica.
(Trinidad Guardian) Vera Bhajan, 22, the young woman from Felicity, Chaguanas, who was born without arms, has graduated from University of the West Indies (UWI) with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB).
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