Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) – It was total chaos at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, after a power failure.

(Trinidad Express) – A woman has tested positive for the H1N1 or “swine flu” virus, the Ministry of Health has said.

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras (Reuters) – The Organization of American States lifted its 47-year suspension of Cuba yesterday in a move backed by Washington as it tries to soothe Cold War tensions with the communist-run island.

(Jamaica Observer) – Cabinet is to be asked to write off US$3 million in loans to Jamaica Cricket 2007 as Jamaica and the region continue to count huge losses from their controversial decision to host Cricket World Cup 2007, the quadrennial tournament that determines supremacy in the limited-overs form of the game.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The Central Bank suffered a setback on Tuesday in its legal battle with CL Financial Limited when a judge blocked the bank from accessing information on the group and using it outside of the present case before the court.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Tuesday that he and Cuban ally Fidel Castro risk being more conservative than US President Barack Obama as Washington prepares to take control of General Motors Corp.

QC’s opinion on relationship between AG, DPP(Trinidad Express) Attorney General John Jeremie is relying on the respected opinion of one of England’s leading constitutional experts to support his demanding answers from the Director of Public Prosecutions over the conduct of criminal cases.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the Texas  financier accused of an $8.5 billion fraud by U.S.

(Jamaica Observer) – Fearing that their intervention could have resulted in the loss of innocent lives, police on Sunday stood by and watched as heavily armed thugs from the 100 Lane and Park Lane communities off Red Hills Road in St Andrew traded bullets in a deadly pre-dawn firefight.

(Jamaica Observer) – A ministry of health official on Friday emphasised the need to teach children about sexually transmitted infections (STIs) from an early age, quoting statistics higlighting the risky sexual behaviour of children under age 14.

ALP calls for amnesty The opposition Antigua Labour Party has called on the government to declare a six-month amnesty for illegal immigrants.

(Trinidad Express)  Attorney General John Jeremie, back in Cabildo Chambers for a second term, attempted to push the former Director of Public Prosecu-tions (DPP), Geoffrey Henderson, now a High Court judge, to charge powerful political and corporate players under criminal investigation in 2006, including Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday and businessman Lawrence Duprey.

(Trinidad Express) President George Maxwell Richards is not explaining. He is not resigning.

– Golding moves to oust MPs over dual citizenship The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is moving to have Opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster and other members of the People’s National Party (PNP) disqualified from sitting in the House of Representatives.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela on Thursday reported its first confirmed case of H1N1 swine flu — a 22-year-old man who is thought to have contracted the illness on a trip to Panama.

(Trinidad Express) – Victims have described as “fat and dark” a man who for weeks has been jumping from cars and snatching valuables from pedestrians in and around Princes Town.

(Antigua Sun) – The Immigration and the Labour Department through the Ministry of National Security are looking at several ways of tracking visitors to the island from the time they enter to when they are expected to leave.

ACP wants concessions African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have requested a continuation of their zero-duty sugar exports to the European Union after 2015.

(Barbados Nation) Yet another government in the Caribbean has been accused of treating Caricom nationals harshly.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Attorney General Bridgid Annisette-George was reportedly forced out of government, sources close to her said on Wednesday.