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Jamaica. 19 persons plucked to safety - J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Guyana air traffic controllers end sick-out - Stabroek News -Guyana Chronicle Tsunami death toll surpasses 135,000 - CNN Massive relief efforts underway - Reuters USA Today VOA Cayman Islands general insurance rating downgraded - Cayman Netnews Tsunami death toll by country-CNN Map of area struck- BBC Foul-smelling, gas-like scent shuts down international section of Nassau airport - Nassau Guardian (Dec 30) Edward Seaga to resign as Member of Parliament in mid-January ... to take up post at UWI - J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Launching of CSME pushed back - from January 5 to February 19 -J'ca Gleaner Tsunami death toll surpasses 116,000 - CNN BBC ABC News Somalia tsunami victims forgotten - BBC Tsunami death toll by country-CNN Map of area struck- BBC (Dec 29) Death toll from Asia tsunamis now at 80,000 - CNN ABC-News Red Cross says death toll could top 100,000- BBC ABC-News Indonesia death toll soars past 32,000 - Reuters SABC News ABC News Tsunami death toll by country-CNN Map of area struck- BBC 802 passengers die as tsunami smashes into moving train carrying 1,000 passengers in Sri Lanka - China Post Star Tribune 9.0 earthquake moves Nicobar Islands and Simeulue Island farther out to sea - CNN Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency to establish tsunamis warning system-J'caObserver J'caGleaner B'dosNation Fire destroys historic century-old Sacred Heart Church in Georgetown, Guyana - Guyana Chronicle Stabroek News (Dec 28) Death toll from Asia tsunamis now over 55,000-UK Guardian ABC News Sify News Turkish Press Map of area struck- BBC Indonesia death toll hit 27,000 - Reuters ABC News 30,000 people in Andaman Islands unaccounted for, as waves taller than buildings swept across islands - Sify News Trinidad Prime Minister calls emergency cabinet meeting to put precautionary measures in place in case Caribbean is struck by a Tsunami - T'dad Express Hundreds die as far away as Somalia and Kenya - News 24 Africa Thailand resorts devastated as bodies of tourists lie trapped in wrecked rooms of crumbled hotels - BBC Fire destroys historical century old Sacred Heart Church in Georgetown, Guyana - Guyana Chronicle (Dec 27) Most powerful earthquake in 40 years kills 20,000 in India, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Somalia as water 10 meters high sweeps coastal areas and several islands. Millions homeless. BBC CNN Blue Christmas for BWIA passengers in Guyana - many still without luggage - Guyana Chronicle (Dec 24) Jamaica government takes full control of Air Jamaica. Butch Stewart group resigns with immediate effect - J'ca Observer Gleaner Trinidad Prime Minister tells BWIA board to fix airline or government will find someone who can - T'dad Express BWEE blues in Guyana. Some luggage arrive. Delays continue - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Australia wants to know if West Indies January 14 cricket tour is still on-B'dos Nation as 2 Prime Ministers intervene-B'dos Nation Mother of Onika Bostic stops cremation - T'dad Newsday (Dec 23) Butch Stewart pulls out of Air Jamaica - J'ca Observer Jamaica's Finance Minister to announce major changes - J'ca Gleaner Case dropped against woman whose baggage tag was switched and placed on luggage with cocaine at Jamaica airport - Observer Trinidad company unable to meet Guyana cement needs. Government to go outside of Caricom region - Guyana Chronicle Irate Guyana passengers storm BWIA offices - Guyana Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle New York police called in to control angry BWIA passengers at JFK airport - T'dad Express Economists in Barbados criticize government's economic policy - concerned about the widening current account deficit - B'dos Nation Man jailed in Bermuda for sexual assault on his wife - Bermuda Sun (Dec 22) Man in Guyana shot dead in another woman's bed - Stabroek News Soldier kidnapped in Trinidad by four men wearing ski masks. $1.2M demanded T'dad Express T'dad Newsday Jeffrey Dujon appointed Jamaica's first national coaching director - Jamaica Gleaner BWIA passengers arrive in Guyana from New York and Canada without their luggage - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Soca artiste Modeste abandons car in escape from gunmen who try to kidnap him in broad daylight - T'dad Express Jamaica cops in shoot-out with each other - Jamaica Gleaner American company abandons its search for oil off Barbados - Barbados Nation (Dec 21) Onika Bostic Dies - T'dad Express Antigua Sun T'dad Newsday Cops probe cause of death - T'dad Express 6 people die in Jamaica as a taxi slams into a truck - Jamaica Observer Jamaica Gleaner Guyana customs seize contraband chicken and alcoholic beverages - Guyana Chronicle West Indies tour of Australia in jeopardy again ... players demand US$500,000 in appearance fees -J'ca Gleaner Study: Mobile phones damage body cells and alter DNA. Recommend children use phones only in emergency - BBC Another earth tremor felt in Grand Cayman - Cayman NetNews Canada to approve world's first cannabis drug. UK company grows the plant at a secret farm in England - BBC (Dec 20) Trinidad Prime Minister wants next archbishop to be Trinidadian - T'dad Express T'dad Guardian Canadian group calls for inquest into death of Jamaican farm worker - Jamaica Gleaner Dec 18) Pearnel Charles again at odds with his Jamaica Labour Party - Jamaica Observer Guyana's President promises massive investments in 2005 - Guyana Chronicle Comatose soca star Onika gets blood - T'dad Newsday UN soldiers storm home of former president Aristide and evict gunmen - Reuters Bermuda opposition party refuses to participate in formal discussions about independence for the country - Bermuda Star (Dec 17) Biggest ever natural gas find off Trinidad - 2 trillion cubic feet - Trinidad government to shut down its National Broadcasting Network by mid-February... will cost $150M - T'dad Express Roland Holder quits as secretary of the West Indies players Association - says organization is too confrontational -B'dos Nation Jamaica ministry official calls on Caribbean governments to decriminalise prostitution -Jamaica Gleaner Tension in Haiti as police and UN peacekeepers surround house of former Pres. Aristide to evict rebels - Xinhua Reuters Flying Fish - the national symbol of Barbados - flee to the warmer waters of Tobago - Houston Chronicle (Dec 16) Jamaica's $billion remittance industry expected to swell this year - Jamaica Gleaner West Indies fast bowling is short of the desired mark, and something needs to be done soon - Barbados Nation Furniture factory gutted in Guyana. Arson suspected - Guyana Chronicle Russian company RUSAL to take 90% stake in Guyana bauxite industry ... sign contract today - Guyana Chronicle (Dec 15) Trinidad Senate President casts tie-breaking vote against government - T'dad Express T'dad Newsday Teenager abducted in Petite Valley, Trinidad. $700,000 ransom demanded - T'dad Newsday Jamaica government says it will not meet its 2004/2005 inflation targets - Jamaica Gleaner Magnitude 6.7 earthquake hits Grand Cayman - Ireland On Line Reuters San Francisco Chronicle Cayman NetNews 4 die as UN peacekeepers storm Haiti slum stronghold of Aristide supporters - Seattle Times Turkish Press BBC Naming of West Indies cricket team to tour Australia delayed - B'dos Nation (Dec 14) Opposition from some Jamaicans, including Edward Seaga and the Jamaica Bar Association, to the establishment of the CCJ in Jamaica goes to the Privy Council today - Jamaica Gleaner Hurricane losses for Caribbean Development Bank member countries set at US5Billion - Barbados Nation Residents in Guyana catch thief and duct-tape him to lampost until police arrive - Stabroek News Antigua public servants get 7% increase and backpay going back to June - Antigua Sun Helicopters to be assembled in Guyana - Guyana Chronicle Plus de 4 maisons incendiées à Port-au-Prince - Haiti Press Network (Dec 13) Patterson says Jamaica committed to integration process -- as Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad prepare to launch CSME in January - Jamaica Gleaner Jamaican soldier shoots 5 members of ex-girl friend's family with machine gun - Jamaica Gleaner Barbados losing ground in Canadian tourist market - Barbados Advocate Soca star Onika Bostic hangs on. Band member/ driver prays for miracle- T'dad Express Star brain dead- T'dad Newsday Cubans in Miami demonstrate against the treatment of Cuban detainees in the Bahamas - Nassau Guardian (Dec 12) Guyana's Education Minister says half of country's 16 - 24 year olds cannot properly read and write - Stabroek News 3 year old child dies as mother loses control of her car and it strikes an embankment - Barbados Nation Trinidad police issue warrants for two businessmen in connection with $28M wire transfer fraud - T'dad Guardian Soca star Onika Bostic, lead singer with Burning Flames, brain dead after car accident - Trinidad Newsday Trinidad Express Trinidad government investigating whether carcasses are remains of dogs being slaughtered to make sausages - T'dad Guardian (Dec 11) London police seize US$54.5M in cocaine hidden in coconuts shipped from Guyana - largest bust ever in London- Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Guyana police find body of a young woman with her head, feet and wrists chopped off - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Trinidad police rescue kidnapped female owner of shopping mall - T'dad Express T'dad Newsday (Dec 10) Pandemonium in Guyana courthouse as jury deadlocks on Mark Benschop treason case 11-1. Will face new trial -Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Guyana parliament votes to raise age of consent to 16 years - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Trinidad police rescue kidnapped 3 year old child - T'dad Newsday, T'dad Express West Indies cricketers praise practice techniques of new coach Bennet King - Jamaica Gleaner Pirates rob cargo ships in Jamaica's Kingston Harbour - J'ca Observer Cayman Islands ends curfew - Cayman NetNews (Dec 9) Leadership squabble within Jamaica's opposition JLP ends. Party agrees to compile new voters list - J'ca Gleaner, J'ca Observer "Butch" Stewart says Air Jamaica needs more cash ... can't be allowed to go under - J'ca Observer, J'ca Gleaner Trinidad government expected to introduce licensing system for teachers - T'dad Express Guyana to join new South American Community Of Nations. Plans for a single currency and a single passport - Guyana Chronicle Barbados Central Bank Governor feels Barbadians should be paying for their own University Education -B'dos Nation Death toll in Guyanese murder-for-insurance scheme in New York grows - NY Newsday (Dec 8) Jamaica's Finance Minister Omar Davies launches campaign to succeed PJ Patterson as PNP leader- J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Jamaica House passes bill to enact CSME. Seaga objects, saying it smacks of Federalism - J'ca Gleaner 3 year old boy kidnapped from his home in Trinidad. $1M ransom demanded - T'dad Express Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to offer associate degrees - Guyana Chronicle Barbados Prime Minister presents Budget -includes $100M highway project with several fly-overs to ease congestion -B'dos Nation (Dec 7) More floods in Trinidad leave villagers stranded in waist high water- T'dad Guardian Flood alert issued for Central Trinidad - T'dad Express Bandits strike fast food outlet in Guyana and shoot security guard - Guyana Chronicle, Guyana Stabroek News Front line pans of Trinidad's Solo Pan Knights Steel Orchestra destroyed. Arson suspected - T'dad Express Barbados Prime Minister presents budget today - Barbados Nation Fatal clashes in Haiti - UK Guardian News24, Jamaica lifts ban on US beef - USDA (Dec 6) Guyana's President Jagdeo to attend meeting of South American Presidents - Guyana Chroinicle Married women in Jamaica most at risk of contracting AIDS, as females account for half the new AIDS cases there- J'ca Gleaner Cargo plane with luggage bound for Bahamas ditches in Miami lake - CNN Elections in Cayman Islands on May 11 - Cayman NetNews Former Barbados opposition leader tells Democratic Labour Party supporters: "Say It Loud!" - Barbados Nation (Dec 5) British police searching for serial rapist - says he could be anywhere in the Caribbean - Jamaica Gleaner Trinidad police keeping star witness in murder case against prominent doctor in a safe house- T'dad Express Barbados residents may have been duped into paying wrong people rent for plots they live on - B'dos Nation Elections in Cayman Islands on May 11 - Cayman NetNews Cargo plane with luggage bound for Bahamas ditches in Miami lake - CNN (Dec 4) Prominent Trinidad surgeon Professor Vijay Naraynsingh charged with murdering wife 10 years ago - T'dad Express 2nd tremor - a strong after-shock - rocks Trinidad - T'dad Express (Dec 3) Earthquake measuring 5.4 shakes Trinidad. Closes airport - Trinidad Express Trinidad Newsday West Indies cricket greats still awaiting contract monies owed by West Indiea Cricket Board since 1985 - Barbados Nation Judge in Guyana rejects no-case submission by Mark Benschop defense team - Guyan Chronicle Trinidad President hospitalized - T'dad Newsday Trinidad Express (Dec 2) Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) to become effective January 5 - Jamaica Gleaner Wife of one of Trinidad's top surgeons charged with 1994 murder of Dr. Chandra Naraynsingh - T'dad Express Heavy gunfire in Haiti as Colin Powell visits - CNN (Dec 1) Prominent Trinidad doctor arrested at Piarco Airport in connection with a murder 10 years ago - T'dad Express, T'dad Newsday 5 Scotland Yard detectives arrive in Jamaica to help fight drug smuggling and gangs - J'ca Observer (Nov 30) Guyana government tables bill to raise the age of consent - for sex and mnarriage - to 16 --- Stabroek News Jamaica court overturns $10-billion award against government - J'ca Gleaner, J'ca Observer Tobago Express airline suspended from flying to several Caribbean islands - T'dad Express Cable & Wireless Barbados withdraws controversial charges for directory enquiries - Barbados Nation (Nov 29) Guyana's opposition PNCR worried about poll preparations deadline - Stabroek News BWEE Blues -- Flight delays frustrate passengers - T'dad Express Jamaican students default on $15million in student loans from the Organization of American States- J'ca Observer Cayman Islands ruling United Democratic Party in turmoil - Cayman NetNews Barbados to get a new multi-million private hospital - Barbados Nation IMF gives Dominica one-year loan extension on US$11-million loan - Forbes Aristide supporters march through capital of Haiti - Washington Times, BBC (Nov 25) Barbados, Grenada Prime Ministers to mediate contract dispute between West Indies Cricket Board and players - J'ca Observer Australia tells West Indies Cricket Board and players: "Bring your best side" - T'dad Express Landslides cut off villages in Trinidad - T'dad Guardian World Health Organization warns that a bird flu pandemic could kill 7 million people - CNN Will St. Lucia prove lucky for Maurice Bishop's killers - St. Lucia Star (Nov 24) Schoolgirl found with throat slashed in Guyana - Guyana Chronicle Stabroek News Flooding in Barbados imprisons residents in their homes, forces closure of schools - Barbados Nation (Nov 23) Guyana Central Bank could take control of shaky financial institutions - Stabroek News Trinidad sends relief team to Dominica to assess damage from earthquake - T'dad Express Flood waters in Trinidad trap students in their classrooms - T'dad Guardian West Indies Cricket Board reject requests from West Indies Players Association for meeting to end impasse - B'dos Nation UN to expand peacekeepers to Haiti - Bloomberg Xinhua, China UN News St. Kitts Prime Minister gets knighthood - The Democrat (Nov 22) Massive earthquake rocks Dominica and Guadeloupe. One person killed. Homes destroyed - T'dad Express CBC News CNN Tussle at Jamaica's opposition Jamaica Labour Party. Expletives hurled at Pearnel Charles - J'ca Gleaner UWI gets report on naked professor and student seen in a parked car - Trinidad Express Floods in Trinidad. Female body found floating down street as river overflows - T'dad Newsday, T'dad Express (Nov 21) Barbadians to have access to stem cell therapy at Queen Eliabeth Hospital - Barbados Nation Trinidad government hires Canadian company to investigate charges against government minister Dr. Rowley - T'dad Express Jamaica government considering relocating Norman Manley Airport - Jamaica Gleaner (Nov 19) Taiwan to rebuild Grenada's stadium - Allocates US$40M - Barbados Nation Nov 18) Jamaica government says it has no plans to repeal its buggery laws. Tells US group Human Rights Watch Jamaica will set its own legal agenda - J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Holetown, Barbados cut off by raging flood waters - B'dos Nation Hundreds of school students march in Jamaica against crime and violence - J'ca Observer American citizen charged in Trinidad with fraud in airport project writes $2M check for bail - T'dad Express 60 teachers at Gibson high school in Bahamas stage 2-day sit-out to protest insolence of students - Nassau Guardian (Nov 17) Bahamian students withdrawing from Jamaica's Northern Caribbean University after murder of fellow student - J'ca Gleaner (Nov 16) Clico takes controlling interest of Trinidad's Republic Bank - T'dad Express Barbados' Fair Trading Commission calls Cable & Wireless' charges to consumers for directory enquiries unauthorised - Nation (Nov 15) Several Tobago homes in ruins - filled with mud and debris after landslides - T'dad Express Guyana assures IMF it will limit new hiring (except for nurses and teachers), and limit wage increases - Stabroek News Cuba dollar tax comes into force - BBC (Nov 14) IMF worried about Guyana's debt level. Doubts feasibility of new US$25M cricket stadium - Stabroek News Jamaica's CXC results worse than reported - J'ca Gleaner Soldiers face off residents of Tobago where homes are partially buried, cars mising, dogs drowned after mudslides - T'dad Express West Indies Cricket Board still owes players match fees sponsorship monies - Guyana Chronicle Residents in parts of Trinidad still marooned following Thursday's heavy rains and flooding - T'dad Guardian Secret stem cell research institute reportedly operational in Barbados - offering treatment at US$25,000 per person - B'dos Nation (Nov 13) Landslides triggered by floods in Tobago kill 2 persons - T'dad Express T'dad Newsday Flooding in Trinidad close businesses and schools - T'dad Express Flood waters trap city residents in Barbados - B'dos Nation Jamaica gets J'a$1B hurricane grant from United States - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica Observer Stabroek News managing edior, Patrick Denny, dies - Guyana Chronicle, Stabroek News Haiti to issue warrant for Aristide's arrest - BBC Mourners mass for Arafat's burial Dignitaries attend Cairo state funeral (Nov 12)Guyana and India sign US$25M deal to start work on World Cup cricket stadium - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle 85 year old Barbadian woman reveals deeds showing ownership to prime Barbados lands including Kensington Oval - B'dos Nation (Nov 11) Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies at 75 - CNN BBC Obituary - BBC US signs key aid accord with Caricom Guyana Chronicle Seaga stays as leader of opposition Jamaica Labour Party -- until next year as wrangle continues - J'ca Gleaner, J'ca Observer Trinidad and Jamaica in historic gas deal - T'dad Express J'ca Observer (Nov 10) Money laundering legislation widened in Jamaica to include lawyers, car dealers, accountants- J'ca Gleaner Barbados opposition leader protests government's faulure to debate CSME legislation - B'dos Nation Student attacks teacher with wood in Guyana .. fractures finger and smashes glasses - Stabroek News Caricom ban on Haiti remains - Jamaica Gleaner Guyana Chronicle (Nov 9) Motorists line up as gas shortage hits parts of Jamaica. Government urges calm - Jamaica Observer Jamaica Gleaner Guyana's Chief Magistrate faces disciplinary charges - Guyana Stabroek News Judge tells employees at Trinidad's National Broadcast Network they must accept voluntary separation package - T'dad Express Health workers in Trinidad plan hospital shutdown today - T'dad Express T'dad Guardian (Nov 8) Caricom leaders meet in Trinidad today to discuss Caribbean Single Market Economy, and renewal of Haiti ties - T'dad Express Students in Jamaica issuing forged University certificates in effort to land jobs - Jamaica Observer Roland Butcher says Lara is not the one to save West Indies cricket - T'dad Guardian (Nov 6) Leadership wrangle forces opposition Jamaica Labour Party to postpone its annual conference. Appeal Court rejects appeal by Pearnel Charles' oponents - J'ca Gleaner - J'ca Observer Home of former Trinidad government minister Finbar Gangar searched by anti-corruption police squad-J'ca Gleaner T'dad Express Guyana'a trawler owners to import fuel from Venezuela - Guyana Chronicle, Guyana Stabroek News Vessels stranded as workers at Trinidad 's Petrotrin oil company continue their work stoppage - T'dad Guardian (Nov 5) Guyana parliament okays Caribbean Court of Justice as final court of appeal - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle Cruise ships return to Cayman Islands - Cayman NetNews Trinidad Oilfield Workers Trade Union orders members back to work- warns there could be further industrial action - T'dad Express Bahamas Air workers reject ultimatum to accept pay cut or face layoffs - Nassau Guardian Jamaica and Trinidad to sign natural gas agreement - Jamaica Observer Police officer in Bermuda sentenced to 25 years in jail for buggery - of 3 young boys - Bermuda Sun (Nov 4) Pearnel Charles stalls elections to elect new leader for Jamaica's opposition JLP - J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Cable & Wireless in Barbados to charge customers $1 to provide a phone number - B'dos Nation Jamaica opposition forces government to suspend legislation for nurses to be registered - J'ca Gleaner Industrial action at Trinidad's Petrotrin forces gas shortage - T'dad Express T'dad Guardian T'dad Newsday Lovesick man sets fire to home in Trinidad and kills himself - T'dad Newsday T'dad Express (Nov 3) Tourism tax to be placed on visitors to Jamaica passed in House of Representatives - Jamaica Gleaner Residents around Barbados' Bridgetown Sewage Treatment Plant gives government four-day deadline - Barbados Nation Lecturers at Trinidad's UWI campus considering protest action over pay - Trinidad Express (Nov 2) Pearnel Charles taking Jamaica Labour Party to court over validity of delegates list - Jamaica Observer St. Vincent Prime Minister says Trinidad politicians of Indian descent would benefit from Trinidad/St. Vincent/Grenada political union - T'dad Express Trinidad health officials swoop down on restaurants - Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian Guyana government rejects opposition PNCR demands on constitutional reform - Guyana Chronicle (Nov 1) Guyana President tells senior government officers to be more accountable or face the "chopping block" - Guyana Chronicle Guyana's former Chief Justice Randolph Harper dies after auto accident - Guyana Chronicle (Oct 30) Killing spree in Jamaica - 24 murders in 5 days - Jamaica Gleaner Trinidad government launches $1-billion investment fund to help Caribbean companies develop business projects - J'ca Gleaner Trinidad government introduces legislation to impose 10 years jail sentence to those spreading AIDS - T'dad Express (Oct 29) Guyana suggests to Caribbean governments joint diplomatic representation overseas - Stabroek News Guyana Chronicle RJR turns profit from Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation's TV station after purchase - Jamaica Gleaner Barbados public service hit by work stoppages for 3rd straight day - Barbados Nation Cayman government will allow cruise ships to resume visits to country from Nov 1, following Ivan - Cayman NetNews Aristide wants free and fair elections in Haiti - BBC (Oct 28) Explosion and fire shuts down Petrojam. Jamaica rushes to Trinidad and Venezuela for petroleum - J'ca Observer , J'ca Gleaner Jamaica's Attorney General urges goverment to follow Bajan's "privy council" position on death penalty - Jamaica Gleaner Barbados opposition leader says says bus fare and water rate increase is fault of the IMF and not world oil prices - B'dos Nation Antigua police question Member of Parliament about a fire which was maliciously set - Antigua Sun 20 students hospitalised in Trinidad after their school bus overturn - Trinidad Express (Oct 27) Electoral Office of Jamaica threatens to boycott the JLP leadership race - Jamaica Gleaner HIV/AIDS drugs produced in Guyana keeping Guyanese HIV victims "alive and well" - Guyana Chronicle Antigua radio station ZDK shut down by utility company because of unpaid electricity bills - Antigua Sun (Oct 26) Australian Bennett King named new West Indies cricket coach - Cric Info Trinidad's Anti Corruption Bureau raids home of Lawrence Duprey - T'dad Express Cuba bans US dollar transactions. Citizens to tell relatives to send them euros, sterling or francs - BBC CBC News RTE News Barbados government announces increase in water rates and bus fares - Barbados Nation Grenada celebrates 21st anniversary of US invasion - BBC News, Jamaica Observer (Oct 24) Police-supervised explosions in Trinidad damage houses; many residents sent to hospital - T'dad Express, T'dad Guardian Jamaica police federation say no to foreign cops - Jamaica Observer Trinidadians to be given Indian citizenship - T'dad Newsday (Oct 22) Jamaica's police federation says no to recruitment of foreign cops- Jamaica Observer Mini-buses continue strike in Barbados - Barbados Nation Trinidad PM reverts to Commission of Inquiry into Rowley affair - T'dad Newsday (Oct 21) Toxic insecticide sprayed by a crop-duster aircraft sickens 113 children in Trinidad - closes 4 schools - T'dad Guardian UK signs security pact with Caricom to help fight crime in Caribbean countries - J'ca Gleaner, J'ca Observer Aristide accuses new Haiti Prime Minister of being a killer - HaitiInfo, iAfricaNews Fidel Castro falls at rally and breaks arm - BBC, CNN Canada.Com (Oct 20) Jamaica police launch Operation Kingfish - an all-out assault on drug kingpins and gangs - Jamaica Gleaner, Jamaica Observer Haiti struggles to stem unrest - ABC News, CBC News Gunman walks into school in Trinidad - threatens Principal and points gun at teacher - Trinidad Express UWI at Mona, Jamaica deregisters 550 students for failing to pay tuition fees - Jamaica Gleaner Police and mini-bus drivers face-off in Barbados - Barbados Nation Guyana police offensive against armed gang in Buxton village - one dead, several arrested, ammunition seized -Guyana Chronicle (Oct 19) High fuel costs affect Guyana's seafood sector. Hundreds laid off - Stabroek News 146 Jamaicans receive National Honours - Jamaica Gleaner Guyanese woman, 26, stabbed to death in Brooklyn, New York by boyfriend 3 weeks after arriving - Guyana Chronicle Trinidad to give shorter sentences to drug offenders who squeal on 'big boys'' - Trinidad Express (Oct 18) Thousands in peaceful march against escalating crime in Trinidad - Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian Jamaican cops detain Donald 'Zeeks' Phipps after finding $9million in cash plus ammo stashed - J'ca Observer J'ca Gleaner Barbadian Sir Clyde Gollop is dead - Barbados Nation (Oct 16) Guyana officials find cocaine stuffed in 16 letters bound for United States - Stabroek News Guyana Chonicle Bruce Golding ahead in race for Jamaica Labour Party leader - Jamaica Gleaner Trinidad Prime Minister satisfied with explanation given by Housing Minister Rowley - Trinidad Guardian (Oct 15) Trinidad Prime Minister launches probe into alleged materials scam involving Housing Minister Dr. Rowley- Express Guardian Guyana donates sugar to Grenada - Stabroek News Union leader says Barbadian consumers are under seige -Barbados Nation Oct 14) Gun battle in downtown Kingstown, Jamaica leaves 5 injured - businesses close shutters- Jamaica Observer J'ca Gleaner African-Guyanese support October 12 each year as African Holocaust Day for Caribbean people - Guyana Chronicle Barbadians told to expect price increases for gas, diesel, kerosene, and petroleum gas - Barbados Nation Cable and Wireless loses monpoly in Barbados for domestic telephone services. 3 other companies get licenses - B'dos Nation Launch of Caribbean Court Of Justice postponed - Barbados Advocate Cayman search still on for two prisoners who escaped during Hurricane Ivan - Cayman NetNews (Oct 13) 2 teenagers arrested in connection with robbery of former Trinidad President Sir Ellis Clarke - Trinidad Express Barbados television station CBC-TV pulls programme showing aggressive police behaviour towards media - Barbados Nation 670 workers in Jamaica to lose job as company closes - Jamaica Observer 2 Trinidad soldiers arrested for stealing relief items for Grenada face discharge - T'dad Guardian Privy Council tells Trinidad government to pay damages to a Nigerian doctor jailed for 69 days - T'dad Newsday T'dad Express (Oct 12) Two soldiers in Trinidad held with items bound for Grenada - Trinidad Guardian Concern over grade four reading results in Jamaica - called disturbing trend - Jamaica Gleaner 30 Trinidadians lose jobs in $3M Port Fortin fire - Trinidad Express, Trinidad Guardian 100 Guyana soldiers on standby for Grenada to help with relief work - Guyana Chronicle 3 people killed last night in gunfights in Haiti - News24 Xinhua Barbados seizes guns linked to US - Seattle Post (Oct 11) Shutdown looms at Trinidad's UWI campus as lecturers demand more money - | ||