Kidnappers free Haitian children
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, (Reuters):
Kidnappers freed seven children snatched two days ago from a school bus in the Haitian capital but several other children were abducted in the latest wave of kidnappings-for-ransom, police said yesterday.
"The children were released on Thursday night. ... They are fine," said Henri Dossous, the police commissioner in charge of the anti-kidnapping unit. "The ransom collected by the families was paid to the kidnappers."
New airline to service Tobago
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
Caribbean Airlines, the new national carrier that will begin operations from January 1, next year, will service the air bridge between Trinidad and Tobago, Transport Minister Colm Imbert has said.
CCJ dismisses appeal by prisoner
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
The Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has dismissed an application from a Barbadian man convicted of murder, who sought special leave to appeal against a decision of the Barbados Court of Appeal regarding his conviction.
In an eight page ruling, the five-member CCJ said that it had also dismissed "by way of corollary, the joined application therein for special leave to appeal as a poor person" as filed by the convicted man, Tyrone Da Costa Cadogan.
