Haiti prison crisis ends
Order has now been restored at the largest prison in Haiti after a hostage crisis.
United Nations peacekeepers have shot dead several prisoners after they tried to break out of the jail in Port au Prince.
Inmates first disarmed one of the prison guards and then took four other guards hostage.
They also briefly held two foreign aid workers and a prison clerk.
UN armoured cars and dozens of soldiers were despatched to end the stand-off.
Three hostage-takers were killed in the operation.
A national police spokesman, Frantz Lerebours, told the BBC that order had been restored.
Murder trial postponed for Bouterse
The murder trial of Suriname president Desi Bouterse and 11 associates is due to resume in a month’s time.
The presiding judge has warned defence lawyers that they would not have unlimited opportunities to call witnesses.
She was forced to call a postponement on Friday after none of the defence witnesses appeared to testify.
Desi Bouterse and his associates are charged in the December 1982 deaths of 15 opponents of his military dictatorship at the time.
Mr Bouterse was installed as Suriname’s elected president in August.
He has vowed that he will not interfere in the slowly-moving trial.
Opposition leader re-elected
In Belize, the leader of the opposition Peoples United Party, John Briceno, has proclaimed that the party is united again after he was re-elected unopposed.
The party has been riven by division and two former deputy leaders did not turn up for Sunday’s annual conference, billed a unity convention.
Briceno said he preferred to look forward rather than dwell on the past.
