February 29, 2012
Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez ‘has cancer surgery in Cuba’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is in "good physical shape" after undergoing planned cancer surgery in Cuba, Venezuela's vice-president says. A lesion in Mr Chavez's pelvic region was completely removed, vice-president Elias Jaua said. Mr Chavez,…
February 29, 2012
St Kitts-Nevis PM Douglas tells police officers,Don’t settle for mediocrity
Police officers in the Royal St Christopher and Nevis Police Force, Nevis Division, have been urged to not settle for mediocrity, since they had a commissioner willing to do everything necessary to ensure they were successful in all their…
February 29, 2012
Jamaica remains among drug transit countries
Jamaica remains among a list of countries in the Caribbean and Central America which are considered major transhipment points for illicit drugs. In its 2012 report the International Narcotics Control Board says drug trafficking organisations…
February 29, 2012
Cayman Islands patrol allows Cubans to sail to Honduras
boat carrying 22 Cuban refuge-seekers was intercepted by a Cayman Islands patrol craft, but all were in good shape and were allowed to continue on their way to Honduras, according to a news report Tuesday. The Cayman News Service reported that…
February 28, 2012
Dudus’ sentencing postponed again
Former Tivoli Gardens strong man Christopher (Dudus) Coke, will have to wait until March 16,to learn whether or not he will spend the next 23 years in Prison here. Coke was scheduled to be sentenced tomorrow but Judge Robert P Patterson approved…
February 28, 2012
Grenada ‘resident status’ promised to investors raises legal question
Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, who dismissed Environment Minister Joseph Gilbert last month on the grounds that the “action was taken in the public interest and in order to preserve the integrity of the government of Grenada and to maintain the…
February 28, 2012
Haitian premier’s resignation sparks concern at UN
The head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) has expressed his deep concern following the resignation of Prime Minister Garry Conille, just four months after his appointment. Mariano Fernández Amunátegui, who is also the…
February 28, 2012
Suspect in 3 killings extradited to Puerto Rico
A Puerto Rican man accused of killing three people in the U.S. Caribbean territory has been extradited from Massachusetts. Puerto Rico’s Justice Department says Luis Emmanuel Sostre Piccinnini was extradited Sunday from a lockup in Plymouth,…
February 28, 2012
$2.6 bln vanished via Cayman
About 200 billion yen ($2.6 billion) in pension funds managed by Tokyo-based AIJ Investment Advisors Co has disappeared after it was transferred to a fund in the Cayman Islands, followed by a trust bank in Bermuda and then moved to the Hong Kong…
February 24, 2012
Gov’t of Jamaica spending slashed by $22.3 billion
THE People's National Party administration has slashed the spending plan put forward by the previous government by $22,395,189 billion. The second Supplementary Estimates tabled in Parliament this afternoon shows that the previous $546,797,211…