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BBC Caribbean News in Brief

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.

Barbados PM scolds leaders

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

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

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.

My wife died a hero – soldier

(Trinidad Express) Camille Daniel died a hero. This was the sentiment expressed by Daniel’s husband, Lance Cpl Stanley Nottingham, and acting Police Commissioner James Philbert.

CLICO TT$20m PNM gift

How cash-squeezed insurance giant bankrolled 2007 electionsBy Camini Marajh Investigative Desk Trinidad Express Lawrence Duprey’s CL Financial Group provided scarcely imaginable largesse to the ruling People’s National Movement (PNM) party in the last general election at a time when it was already on the ropes-short on cash and highly leveraged.

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