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Haiti’s Prime Minister Resigns
CARIBBEAN 360
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti– Haiti’s Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant has resigned amid violent protests that had been sparked by a proposed plan to raise fuel prices.
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.
Bridgetown expensive ‘as France’
Barbados Nation
As the Mia Mottley Administration begins what may be a long road back to economic prosperity, Barbados has yet another problem on its hands.
It is an assertion, based on research, that Bridgetown is one of the world’s most expensive cities for business travellers.
Stranded on the seashore
T&T Express
POLICE left their patrol vehicle on the shore in Cedros on Sunday and went out to sea on a boat in search of suspected drug smugglers.
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