(Jamaica Observer) Superintendent Harry ‘Bungles’ Daley on Monday denied that he had an arrangement to collect payment from a St Catherine businessman in return for protection, as he took the witness stand to start his defence during his corruption trial.
(Trinidad Express) Express Editor-at-Large Keith Smith has been honoured this year with the Humming Bird Medal Silver.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In what is likely to be his most frank admission yet, Prime Minister Golding has conceded that his administration could have made better use of the early period in office.
(Trinidad Express) Four police officers from an elite crime-fighting unit in the Southern Division were taken in for questioning Thursday, over their alleged involvement in the theft from a casino of almost $100,000.
-320 to go home (Jamaica Gleaner) Forced to temporarily close the doors to one of his three Montego Bay resorts, Iberostar Rose Hall’s Managing Director Philipp Hofer said he had no option but to take the difficult decision to send 320 of his employees home.
(Jamaica Observer) Foreign Affairs Minister Kenneth Baugh on Thursday confirmed that the US Government has formally requested the extradition of influential Tivoli Gardens don and businessman, Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
(Jamaica Observer) Telecommunications giant Digicel was on Thursday identified in court as the entity which had its system hacked into and from which 26-year-old computer specialist and computer programmer Philpott Martin allegedly stole over J$10 million worth of call credit.
-Emile Elias (Trinidad Express) Time to send them back home. This was the main condition laid down on Wednesday by local contractor Emile Elias, as he argued forcefully that Prime Minister Patrick Manning’s declaration of intent on Monday, to work with the local construction industry, must be followed by tangible action.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s president sent a media reform bill to Congress yesterday, saying it would strengthen democracy by reducing the control of a handful of companies that dominate broadcasting.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Diplomats from European Union countries went to the home of a jailed Cuban dissident yesterday to express their concern about the case and what they view as ongoing efforts by island authorities to quell dissent.
(Barbados Nation) CLICO has voiced disappointment over LIAT’s decision to withdraw its pension funds, but says that the company will rise to the occasion.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia yesterday filed a formal complaint against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez with the Organization of American States, accusing the leftist leader of meddling in its domestic affairs.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Climate change has made history an inaccurate guide for farmers as well as energy investors who must rely on probabilities and scenarios to make decisions, the head of a United Nations agency said yesterday.
BOSTON (Reuters) – New ultra-sensitive blood tests can rapidly detect when heart muscle is dying from a heart attack, even from the moment the patient arrives in the emergency room, according to two studies yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) “An open attack on press freedom.” That is how the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM) has termed the threats made by the Prime Minister’s political advisor, Hartley Henry to Sunday Sun editor Carol Martindale.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – African zoologists are in Colombia to advise local authorities on what to do with dozens of hippos roaming around the abandoned zoo of late drug lord Pablo Escobar in the north of the country.
(BBC) The Belize government has nationalised the country’s leading telecommunications company, Belize Telemedia.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – The developing world sees only 5 percent of the world’s spending on cancer treatment, despite accounting for around half of new cases and nearly two-thirds of cancer deaths, a report published on Monday said.
(Barbados Nation) Unfair to politicians and unsupportive of its own people when they’re in trouble!
Seven people died in two house fires in Central Trinidad between Friday night and Saturday morning.
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