Bakr's properties up for sale

Date:8/17/2010  By:Trinidad Express

THE STATE is scheduled to place 11 properties belonging to Jamaat-al-Muslimeen leader Imam Yasin Abu Bakr and his second-in-command Kala Aki Bua on the auction block today. Abu Bakr led a group of 114 insurrectionists in an attempted coup on July 27, 1990.

World Bank giving US$55m to Haiti

Date:8/17/2010  By:Nation News

THE WORLD BANK announced that it will disburse US$55 million to Haiti, which will help the Caribbean nation address some of its most urgent financing needs as it strives to recover in the wake of the January 12 earthquake that killed more than 230 000 people and caused widespread destruction mainly in the capital of Port-au-Prince.

GUILTY!

Date:8/15/2010  By:Trinidad Express

NEARLY ten years after being discharged by former High Court judge and now Justice Minister, Herbert Volney, on charges relating to $13 million worth of cocaine and a gun and ammunition, Rick Anthony Gomes was yesterday found guilty of the same charges.

Guyana: Rubbish strike over

Date:8/10/2010  By:Stabroek News

Garbage collectors yesterday called off a month-and-a-half long strike after President Bharrat Jagdeo offered them “substantial payment” to settle the debt owed by the city.

'He didn't rat on Coke' - Attorney for J'can convict in US denies reports he squealed on 'Dudus'

Date:8/10/2010  By:Jamaica Gleaner

The attorneys for a Jamaican man named by a United States publication as the person who led American prosecutors to alleged drug kingpin Christopher 'Dudus' Coke are adamant that their client was never an informant for the United States government.

JA: Emergency crumbles

Date:7/21/2010  By:Jamaica Gleaner

Prime Minister Bruce Golding will this morning huddle with the police and army chiefs to craft adjustments to their massive anti-crime initiative in the wake of the Government's failure yesterday to get enough votes to green-light an extension of the state of public emergency in the Corporate Area and St Catherine.

Guyanese pleads guilty in NY terror plot

Date:6/30/2010  By:New York Post, Fox News

One of four men accused of plotting to kill thousands and cause an economic catastrophe by blowing up John F Kennedy International Airport pleaded guilty to a lesser charge yesterday.

Dudus to see proof

Date:6/29/2010  By:Jermaine McCalpin, Gleaner Writer

Christopher 'Dudus' Coke should in two months get his hands on some of the evidence that constitutes the legal arsenal of the United States government in its quest to convict him of drug smuggling and the trafficking of illegal guns.

READY TO ROLL

Date:6/29/2010  By:Akile Simon, Trinidad Express

DWAYNE DOUGLAS GIBBS, the Canadian national likely to be approved by Parliament on Friday to become the country’s next Commissioner of Police, has promised, once he’s given the nod, that he’s going to put his best foot forward and get the job done.

Alleged Jamaican drug lord arrives in United States to face charges

Date:6/24/2010  By:CNN

Alleged drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke was extradited Thursday from Jamaica to the United States, where he is to face drug and weapons charges.