KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer)– A website Havoscope.com, which provides data and information on black market activities around the world, ranks Jamaica 25th in Prostitution Revenue Worldwide.
(Trinidad Express) Former President and Prime Minister Arthur NR Robinson has died.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government formally invited Vatican No 2 Cardinal Pietro Parolin yesterday to mediate talks with the opposition in hopes of stemming violence that has killed dozens in the nation’s worst unrest in a decade.
HAVANA (Reuters) – A US contractor who has launched a hunger strike while serving a long prison term in Cuba is receiving “dignified and decent treatment” in a hospital ward where he is in stable health, a Cuban official said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Former President and Prime Minister Arthur NR Robinson has died.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said it agreed to attend exploratory talks yesterday with President Nicolas Maduro’s government in a bid to end the country’s worst political unrest for a decade.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The St Lucia government says it is important for Caricom to adopt a regional approach to settling the issue of the legislation of marijuana.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A coalition of local lobby groups yesterday revealed that they have reported to the United States-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) claims that there are ‘death squads’ within the ranks of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) that are engaging in extrajudicial killings.
(Trinidad Express) Guyanese national Vidya Bachu decided to leave the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt Hope, with her ailing husband Jeetindra Sookram although he was being attended to by nurses.
(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has said there has been “a 36 per cent increase in dengue infections for 2014”.
(Trinidad Express) – Four men were shot and killed in two separate attacks in south Trinidad on Sunday night.
(Barbados Nation) President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Sir Dennis Byron wants the regional media to do more to bring governments and their people on board with the court.
ÎLE-À-VACHE, Haiti (Reuters) – For decades the mostly dirt-poor residents of the small island of Île-à-Vache off Haiti’s south coast lived in anonymity, virtually ignored by the government and visited only by the most adventurous backpackers and yachters.
PORT-DE-PAIX, Haiti (Reuters) – Only cactus grows along the dirt road fringing arid fields on the way to the isolated village of Bas des Moustiques, on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Port-de-Paix in Haiti.
(Trinidad Express) FOUR men were shot and killed in two separate attacks in south Trinidad last night.
(Trinidad Express) FIRED minister of the people and social development Dr Glenn Ramadharsingh yesterday said he would be taking all steps necessary to prevent the further publication of any article that may be “injurious” to his reputation.
(Trinidad Guardian) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan says the implementation of the National Health Card will clamp down on non-nationals seeking free medical attention at public health institutions.
(Barbados Nation) Editor Emeritus of The Nation, Harold Hoyte, today complained about the “slowness” of the Barbados Government to pass Freedom of Information legislation and to amend the laws on criminal defamation.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said yesteday the United States continues to use social media to “subvert” the island’s government and that the revelation this week of a US-created, Twitter-like service for Cuba was just one of several examples.
(Trinidad Guardian) Guyanese national Vidya Bachu is appealing for help to take back the body of her husband who died after being denied treatment at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), to their hometown.
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