St James Parish Council Secretary Manager Christopher Powell quit yesterday, hours after his home was riddled with bullets in a late-night attack. He told the Public Services Commission that he would work in any other parish, but not St James...

News Source: Jamaica Observer

For years, time has been working against Omari Williams. The 24-year-old Arima man has had a liver condition since he was 14 which has caused him to get periodically ill ever since...

News Source: Trinidad Guardian

Grenadians were said to be in a major uproar yesterday as public opinion was divided sharply among citizens over a judgment in the High Court in St George's on Tuesday...

News Source: Trinidad Express

The United States says it expects Caricom to recognise the interim Haitian government of Prime Minister Gerard Latortue but Caricom says there is no guarantee that would happen...

News Source: Trinidad Express

Not again! was the instinctive reaction of officials in the United Nations and in national governments early this year, when it became apparent that Haiti, the poorest country in the western hemisphere, was sinking rapidly into chaos, and the idea of a new international intervention began to be discussed...

News Source: United Nations

Prime Minister of Jamaica and Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) P.J. Patterson yesterday defended his decision to receive ousted Haitian President, Jean-Bertrand Aristide for a two-month stay in Jamaica despite international opposition to the visit...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Gun dealers are analysing the implications for their businesses after it emerged yesterday that the United States had ordered a freeze on the licences of all dealers to import guns and ammunition into Jamaica...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

A jury yesterday found attorney Joseph Melville guilty of the attempted murder of his legal secretary Patricia Cox. Co-accused ?PH? driver Hilton Winchester was also found guilty on a four count indictment of conspiracy to murder Cox, attempted murder, kidnapping and assaulting her occasioning a wound...

News Source: Trinidad Newsday

Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his wife, Mildred, have taken up residence at the secluded and heavily guarded Lydford Park Great House, where they are expected to stay over the next two months...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Lawyers representing two Trinidadian media companies will today continue arguing before the Judicial Committee of the United Kingdom Privy Council, an appeal by two journalists who maintain that a court gag order on a trial in that country in 1996 was a breach of press freedom...

News Source: Jamaica Gleaner