Haiti plunges on with poll despite opposition boycott

January 21, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_9489" align="alignleft" width="300"] Haitian police stand in front of the Haitian Parliament, in Port-au-Prince, on January 11, 2016, during a protest against the first session of the Parliament.[/caption] PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) — Haiti's outgoing president brushed aside street protests, boycott threats and fraud claims Thursday...

385 lose jobs

January 20, 2016 in Regional

THREE hundred and eighty-five sugar workers from the Pan-Caribbean-run Monymusk and Frome sugar estates will be sent home today after the company advised them yesterday that their positions are to be made redundant. Monymusk in Clarendon will lose 279 mainly field workers, while the 106 workers...

Chief Justice wants warrants enforced

January 19, 2016 in Regional

[caption id="attachment_9451" align="alignleft" width="300"] Chief Justice Hartman Longley, left, with former Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett[/caption] Chief Justice Sir Hartman Longley says it is “fair” to say that thousands of people who were charged with criminal offences in the Magistrate’s Courts are roaming the country free...