Regional News

(Jamaica Observer) DIGICEL plans to build out an islandwide digital cable and home broadband network within three years, says Barry O’Brien.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is the most indebted State entity, as well as the largest recipient of Government’s transfers to the State enterprises.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Cuba is to send 165 healthcare workers to West Africa to help in the battle against the world’s worst ever epidemic of the Ebola virus, the country’s health minister said yesterday.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has called for legal action against a former government official who now teaches at Harvard University and wrote an opinion piece that contributed to a fall in the nation’s bond prices earlier this week.

(Barbados Nation) A new community exclusively for Muslims has been started at Clermont, St James.

(Barbados Nation) A new community exclusively for Muslims has been started at Clermont, St James.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is the most indebted State entity, as well as the largest recipient of Government’s transfers to the State enterprises.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of National Security Gary Griffith says law-abiding citizens should not see the procurement of specially outfitted armoured vehicles as a threat, but rather as the country’s national security mechanisms at work.

(Jamaica Observer) Chief Technical Director of the Financial Investigation Division (FID) Justin Felice says the snail’s pace of the justice system is causing a delay in the sale of over J$2 billion worth of seized assets.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse has left for Venezuela to negotiate a deal that will be a relief to Surinamese rice farmers.

(Barbados Nation) A shocking gun attack on the beach in broad daylight has left a St James father dead.

(Trinidad Express) Minister of National Security Gary Griffith says law-abiding citizens should not see the procurement of specially outfitted armoured vehicles as a threat, but rather as the country’s national security mechanisms at work.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s largest business group, the T&T Chamber of Industry and Commerce, said on Tuesday that billions are being spent annually and the country is not seeing value for money. President

Jamaica Gleaner) WESTERN BUREAU: Eldon Calvert, once Jamaica’s most wanted man and notorious Stone Crusher gangster, has been shot dead by gunmen.

(Trinidad Express) FAMED Hindu palm reader Mahadeo Jerrybandhan was shot and killed in an apparent robbery attempt at his family’s Cooper Street, San Fernando home on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Larry Howai on Monday presented a juicy $64.6 billion budget flavoured with giveaways for the grassroot voter.

(Trinidad Express) The budget is based on an oil price of US $80 a barrel and a gas price of US $2.75 per mm btu.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff sought to shield her re-election bid from a new scandal at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA by asking prosecutors yesterday for any details involving officials in her government.

COJIMAR, Cuba (Reuters) – Ernest Hemingway’s grandsons sailed into the fishing village that inspired The Old Man and the Sea yesterday in a campaign to save game fish like the giant marlin that dragged the fictitious Santiago out to sea.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica—The bodies of a man and woman were discovered at the man’s house in Red Hills, St Andrew on Sunday morning.