Venezuelan oil could bring woes
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (AP): CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES will violate Caribbean Community rules if they take advantage of an oil pact they signed with Venezuela promising fuel on easy terms, the leader of Barbados said.
Businessman gets 15 years for drug trafficking
PARAMARIBO, Suriname (CMC): A SURINAME court has sentenced businessman Pritam Hira to a 15-year jail term for cocaine trafficking and law enforcement authorities said they also intended to strip him of possessions gained through the illegal trade.
UK cops to probe terror suspect
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC): BRITISH POLICE officers were due in Trinidad yesterday to interrogate a man arrested by Trinidad and Tobago police last week as he was about to board a plane for London.
New electoral initiatives announced
PORT-AU-PRINCE Haiti (CMC): HAITI'S INTERIM authorities yesterday announced new measures aimed at ensuring the staging of credible elections in Haiti before the end of the year.
PM promises concerns on labour will be heard
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): PRIME MINISTER Roosevelt Skerrit has given the regional labour movement the assurance that its concerns regarding the free movement of labour within the Caribbean will be addressed by regional governments.
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