Regional News

Debt relief for Jamaica Britain says it is about to provide Jamaica with debt relief, to the tune of some $7.4 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Patrick Manning says T&T is “more difficult to govern now,” and as a consequence, reducing his salary was not being considered.

(Trinidad Express) – Paul Hubert Bristol’s rage at his ex-girlfriend was apparently so intense that it endured the process of a trip from Trinidad to England, where she lived, and where he went to allegedly stab her to death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Senator Dwight Nelson and West Portland Member of Parliament Daryl Vaz have emerged two of the big winners, while two former ‘shining stars’, Clive Mullings and Colonel Trevor MacMillan, were the ‘losers’ when Prime Minister Bruce Golding reshuffled his Cabinet on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) – One hundred and nineteen steel workers received retrenchment letters from Point Lisas-based steel giant Arcelor Mittal Steel on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) – Brothers and liming partners Stephen Osbourne, 28, and Addil Osbourne, 19, were slain on Monday morning by the occupants of a jeep that followed them as they made their way home from a beach lime.

Amnesty for St Kitts tax defaulters Tax payers in St Kitts and Nevis have been given a six month amnesty.

(Jamaica Observer) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding last night announced a public sector wage freeze “at the levels which obtained on March 31”, and in an obvious effort to make the decision more palatable, said that he will be taking a 15 per cent salary cut this year in addition to foregoing the seven per cent increase which would have been due to him effective April 1.

Trinidad Express) – Soca, the music, is loved by the masses across this country.

Pilots accuse management of lining up for huge bonus (Antigua Sun) – The salary battle between the management of LIAT and the Leeward Islands Airline Pilots Association (LIALPA) has gone sour again.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Aluminum producing giant UC RUSAL, which is based in Russia, may widen output cuts to up to 20 per cent – 11 per cent more than it originally announced – as it takes steps to reduce costs and save the beleaguered company from bankruptcy.

(Trinidad Express) A fifty-one-year-old “tripped” on Saturday morning. He butchered his estranged wife, then his two sons.

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela opened a joint bank yesterday to develop economic projects, Iranian state television reported.

(Antigua Sun) – Business-man, Sir R Allen Stanford, has categorically denied the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)’s allegations that he was running a US$8 billion Ponzi scheme.

(Trinidad Express) – International police have been called in to help the local national security services keep “career rioters” and “professional protesters” at bay, while this country hosts the Fifth Summit of the Americas.

(Antigua Sun) – Management and staff of the Antigua and Barbuda Waste Recycling Corporation (A&BWRC) have been left baffled following what appeared to have been an arson attempt on the facility Wednesday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Reggae singer Luciano has denied any criminal ties and expressed remorse for the shoot-out at his St Andrew home last week, which ended with the death of a gunman and injury to three policemen.

(Barbados Nation) – Terry Tyrone Harper’s 59 previous convictions far outweigh his age.

(Trinidad Express) – Trinidad and Tobago’s jobs are disappearing amid a worsening downturn in the local economy.

Senator pushes for envoy to Cuba US Senator Richard Lugar has urged President Barack Obama to reach out to Cuba by opening talks and naming a special envoy to the long-time US foe.