Chinese kidnap victim released unharmed in T&T
(Trinidad Express) Kenneth Lu, who was kidnapped on Saturday in Claxton Bay, showed up at the Piarco Police Station unhurt later that night.
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(Trinidad Express) Kenneth Lu, who was kidnapped on Saturday in Claxton Bay, showed up at the Piarco Police Station unhurt later that night.
(Trinidad Express) Brian Mario Bovell and his wife, Savitri, were on their way home from church yesterday, when a van crossed the median of the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in St Augustine and crashed head-on into their family car.
(Trinidad Express) An illegal dump and nearby crops created a “bird hazard” for airplanes leaving the Piarco International Airport on two consecutive days over the Easter weekend.
(Reuters) – American Bubba Watson became only the third left-hander to win the Masters with a gripping playoff victory over South African Louis Oosthuizen at Augusta National today.
KADUNA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – A car bomb killed at least 16 people and wounded dozens more in the northern Nigerian town of Kaduna on Easter Sunday, after security officers stopped the vehicle carrying it from approaching a church, witnesses and police said.
(Reuters) – Shivnarine Chanderpaul completed his 25th test century today to put West Indies in a strong position against Australia at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
(Barbados Nation) Neal & Massy Holdings LIMITED’S ongoing disastrous handling of its exit strategy from loss-making Almond Resorts Inc.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Mike Wallace, the grand inquisitor of CBS’s “60 Minutes” news show who once declared there was “no such thing as an indiscreet question,” has died at the age of 93, the network said today.
OKLAHOMA CITY, (Reuters) – Police acting on a tip arrested two white men today for the shootings of five black victims, three of whom died, in a spree that rattled the predominantly black neighbourhood in Tulsa.
Thirteen-year-old Dexter Marshall of Two Friends, Anns Grove was this morning reportedly electrocuted while riding on a Merry Go Round at a Fair in the village which he left to go to without his mother’s knowledge.
At least 27 people were killed in a major road accident in Haiti when a truck carrying people overturned on a highway south of Haiti’s capital, hospital officials said, according to the French news agency AFP.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Legal challenges being brought by convicted criminals in the United Kingdom (UK) have resulted in a reduction in the number of Jamaicans being deported from that country.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was scheduled to return to Cuba today for a third round of radiotherapy to treat a recurrence of his cancer.
(Barbados Nation) Jamaican hotel magnate Gordon “Butch” Stewart is making a second play for another 30-acre property in Barbados.
(Barbados Nation) A former coast guard member was one of two men remanded to Dodds Prisons in St Philip yesterday on four drug charges.
(Trinidad Express) A Chinese national has been kidnapped. Reports are that around 10 a.m.
(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has said people will be fired from one of two Government ministries or the St Ann’s Hospital if his investigation into the Cheryl Miller affair proves there was a breach of protocol in either how she was admitted to the hospital or how she was released from the facility.
(Reuters) – Kirk Edwards and Kraigg Braithwaite both made half-centuries as West Indies reached 179 for three in the first test against Australia on Saturday when play was abandoned for the day because of rain.
Last year 489 children were moved from abusive situations, according to Finance Minister Ashni Singh.
Police say that at about 0200h today, ranks of a mobile police patrol at Lethem were alerted by the sound of a gunshot in the vicinity of a night spot.
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