Category: Regional

Former Jamaica Police Commissioner, Rear Admiral Hardly Lewin, has weighed in on the WikiLeaks development. He confirmed that Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Carlton Wilson was reassigned under his watch, but he said it had nothing to do with complaints from Cuba, as claimed by National Security Minister, Senator Dwight Nelson.  Lewin said the reassignment was just a routine one, and SSP Wilson was not the only one to be moved.  Lewin also said that he had no recollection of Cuba having a problem with the force, as suggested by…

Hundreds of Trinidadian children and their parents gathered in front of their homes and at street corners along the Penal Rock Road, awaiting the arrival of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Sunday, 19th December, as she continued her Christmas treat exercise — this time in a motorcade. Persad-Bissessar left her constituency office in Penal, at about 13:45 hrs, riding in the tray of a canopied pick-up truck, accompanied by a heavy police presence and a music truck, as she embarked on her toy distribution exercise to children along the roadway. …

Many T&T citizens are in support of Minister of Housing and the Environment, Dr Roodal Moonilal, as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s successor. This is borne out in the findings of a NACTA opinion poll conducted by Vishnu Bisram last week. The findings show that 51 per cent of the populace support Moonilal’s endorsement, while 31 per cent do not, and 18 per cent remain non-committal.  Persad-Bissessar endorsed Moonilal as her successor last month, saying that if anything should happen to her, he should get the nod.  Respondents felt that Moonilal…

St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves scraped to a third consecutive victory in Monday’s general elections, leading his ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP) to a razor thin one seat-majority in the 15-member Parliament.  The ULP, which won 12 seats in the 2005 general election, saw that figure dwindled to eight, as the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) staged a courageous effort to regain the government it lost to the ULP in 2001.  “In 2001, we won these eight seats rock solid, and the four marginals.…

  FLORIDA, United States – A Boxing Day concert in Miami will have to go on without drug-accused reggae singer Buju Banton, even though he’s been out on bail for the last two weeks. That’s because a judge has turned down the Jamaican’s request to perform at the December 26th show. His attorneys have argued that the reggae artiste is under financial strain, having to pay US$20,000 a month to a 24-hour security detail that was a part of his bail conditions, as well as having to pay the cost…

  Amid talks of financial cutbacks to international funding of Jamaica’s fight against HIV/AIDS, National HIV Programme Director, Dr Kevin Harvey, has called for Jamaicans to adopt a unified approach to tackling the challenges created by the infection.  Harvey made the appeal during the annual World AIDS Day proclamatory church service held at Andrews Memorial Seventh-day Adventist temple in St Andrew on the weekend.  World AIDS Day, which is observed each year on December 1, is being held under the theme ‘Universal Access and Human Rights’.  “By combining our resources…

“He has to go! …Dookeran must go!” That cry echoed around the packed auditorium of Daaga Hall, UWI, St Augustine in Trinidad, over the weekend as CLICO policyholders castigated Finance Minister Winston Dookeran. Policyholder Dolly Ali, who moved a motion of no confidence against Dookeran, said: “I’m very, very disappointed in this government, especially Dookeran. (He has) No emotion, no mission. We have to get him out! “Remove him immediately!” Ali added. A man who seconded the motion against the finance minister said he was 67 years old, and might…