Jamaica Gleaner Caribbean
Published: Monday Thursday | June 25, 2009
'Scale down graduation' - Education minister urges caution after student found with swine flu
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Education Minister Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro has advised the school attended by a boy who contracted the Influenza A (H1N1) virus to scale down graduation activities as part of the efforts to reduce the spread of the virus... Read More...
British gov't says island acted outside competence
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): The Bermuda government acted "outside their competence" when it allowed four Chinese Muslim Uighurs to be relocated to the island after being released from a United States detention camp in Cuba, Britain's Foreign Secretary David... Read More...
Regulator booted over Stanford saga
ST JOHN'S, Antigua (CMC): Leroy King, Antigua and Barbuda's chief financial regulator, has been fired after being implicated in an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud involving financier Sir Allen Stanford. Read More...
Jamaican jailed on firearms offences
HAMILTON, Bermuda (CMC): The Supreme Court has jailed a Jamaican national for 10 years after he admitted to possessing a gun and ammunition.Ricardo Alfonso Tucker told the court that he kept the gun for his own protection.... Read More...