Category: News

The news items published under this category are as follows.

News: Police rescue HIV children

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:56 AM
Trinidad and Tobago

Police took two sick young boys away from their Carenage home yesterday, after an anonymous caller told them the children were being neglected by their mother.

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

News: Jamaica battles breaches of Copyright Act

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:49 AM
Jamaica

Minister of Commerce and Technology Phillip Paulwell on Tuesday announced a "massive public education campaign" which, he said, would take a new approach at stemming breaches of the Copyright Act.

News Source: Jamaica Observer

News: Crack cocaine dealer jailed for 25 years

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:42 AM
Jamaica

A man said to be Britain's biggest crack cocaine dealer, who ran an international drugs operation reaching from Jamaica to the UK, was jailed for 25 years yesterday.

News Source: Guardian Unlimited

News: She died in sons' arms

Thursday, April 29, 2004 - 11:32 AM
Guyana

A hard-working woman who brought her two sons to New York from Guyana seven years ago and recently became an American citizen was found dead by police in her well-kept Bronx apartment early yesterday.

News Source: NY Newsday

News: Freedom of expression on trial

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 11:09 PM
Jamaica

Amnesty IntlAmnesty International has today sought urgent clarification from the Director of Public Prosecutions following recent media reports stating that he has threatened to monitor and prosecute talk show hostswho discuss criminal cases pending before the courts.

News Source: Amnesty Intl USA

News: Caricom/US meetings called off

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 12:45 PM
Jamaica

CARICOMThe Caribbean has indefinitely postponed a meeting of its national security ministers with US homeland security secretary, Tom Ridge, because of major differences over Haiti, officials said yesterday...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

News: Teen shot dead over girl

Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - 12:22 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

A 19-year-old Chaguanas man was gunned down in public last Monday night. Reports say Mark Boodoo, of Lapwing Crescent, Edinburgh 500, was standing under the Chaguanas Flyover with two women and in the presence of scores of commuters awaiting transport around 7.20 pm when the shooting took place...

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

News: Witness failed to identify suspects in shooting of Kitchener man in Trinidad

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:51 PM
Trinidad and Tobago

A witness could not identify the three men detained in connection with the shooting of a Canadian university professor and they will not be charged in the case, police said Tuesday...

News Source: CBC

News: Iranian police in Guyana to probe scholar's abduction

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 10:47 PM
Guyana

Iranian police were in Guyana on Monday, probing the abduction of an Iranian scholar earlier this month, amid concerns among Shiites here that Guyanese police had been slow to solve the case...

News Source: Iran Mania

News: Drugged drivers targeted in Toronto

Tuesday, April 27, 2004 - 12:36 PM
Other

Drivers suspected of being high on over-the-counter, prescription or illegal drugs could be forced to give police saliva, urine or blood samples on demand under proposed changes to the Criminal Code introduced yesterday...

News Source: Toronto Star

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