Bringing you news from over the Caribbean in one Place
SANAA (Reuters) – Yemeni loyalist forces fought a gunbattle on Monday with opponents of entrenched President Ali Abdullah Saleh one day after he backed out of a Gulf-brokered accord for him to step down.
KARACHI (Reuters) – Troops recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base Monday after a 16-hour battle with as few as six Taliban gunmen who had launched their brazen attack to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.
LONDON/ROME (Reuters) – Financial markets piled pressure on peripheral euro zone countries on Monday as investors worried about heightened risks in Spain and Greece and fresh concerns over Italy.
DUBLIN (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, starting a four-nation tour of Europe in Ireland on Monday, said he wanted to encourage bilateral trade and would do all he could to help the country’s economic recovery.
Addressing Domestic Violence in the Caribbean is the theme of a public lecture to be given next Monday, May 23, at Bagnall Point Conference Centre, Pelican Village, Bridgetown.
WICB PRESS RELEASE – The much sought after tickets for the West Indies v India Series 2011 are now on sale in Trinidad, Antigua and Jamaica.
Eagle Hall Post OfficeAfter more than three months of being closed for repairs, the Eagle Hall Post Office will be re-opened for business with effect from Monday, May 16.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican in the Congress on Monday laid down a tough new yardstick in talks over the nation’s debt, telling Wall Street that spending cuts must exceed any boost to the borrowing limit.
AMMAN (Reuters) – Syrian troops in tanks and armored vehicles poured into the southern town Deraa and opened fire on Monday, residents said, in the latest bloodshed in a crackdown on protests that has escalated sharply in recent days.
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi’s Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from Gaddafi’s government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader’s life.
