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Barbados economy contracts again
Nation News
The Barbados economy continues to under-perform, contracting by 0.6 per cent in the first six months of this year.
CCJ rules Belize judge can be investigated
T&T News Day
THE Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in Port of Spain has ruled that a Belizean Court of Appeal judge should be considered for investigation.
Flooding Reported In Various Parts Of Grenada
ST GEORGES, Grenada - Various parts of Grenada have been flooded as adverse weather condition from a tropical wave and the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), continues to affect the extreme Southern Windward Islands.
US Embassy In Haiti Requests Extra Security Amid Riots
CNN
The US embassy in Haiti has requested additional US Marines and State Department security personnel to bolster security amid the riots that are taking place there, two US officials tell CNN.
Bandit killed by prison officer in Arouca
Trinidad Express
A shooting incident in Arouca last night involving prison officers has resulted in the death of one man and the arrests of two others.
St Kitts-Nevis PM Harris praised for remarkable leadership
The Vice Chancellery of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reported on Friday that governments of the region are making arrangements to settle debt owing to the institution, estimated at around US$200 million, in cash and kind.
Priest, computer technician charged with murdering middle-aged food vendor
Guyana Chronicle
A MAN who was said to be a Hindu priest and another who was said to be a computer technician, appeared at the Fort Wellington Magistrates’ Court in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) Wednesday on the capital charge of murder.
Foots found not guilty of obscene publication
Cayman Compass
Nearly a year after Cayman Brac artist Ronald “Foots” Kynes was arrested for possessing what was described as an “obscene publication” last July, Magistrate Kirsty-Ann Gunn ended the proceedings against him with one simple sentence on Wednesday.
24 years jail for woman held with gun, ganja
Trinidad Express
Minimart operator Joeann Walters was yesterday sentenced to 24 years in prison for an incident 15 years ago, where a loaded gun was found tucked in her waist as she alighted from the driver’s seat of a car, with crocus bags of marijuana in the back seat and trunk of the vehicle.
Clarendon Businessman Shot Dead At St Andrew Hotel
Jamaica Gleaner
The Half-Way Tree police are investigating Sunday's murder of a Clarendon landscaper at a hotel in St Andrew. It's reported that around 4:45 p.m, 47-year-old John Brandon Murray of a Clarendon Park address in Clarendon, was shot and killed by unknown assailants at the Mayfair hotel on West Kings House Close in St Andrew.