PM hints at job cuts

Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :: "He has asked citizens to tighten their belts in the face of tough economic times but Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday said he lives an un-extravagant lifestyle and if he tightened his own belt “it will reach my spine”.

As he drove through his San Fernando East constituency, on a tour of flood-affected districts, in a silver Mitsubishi Pajero, worth an estimated $500,000, Manning told reporters, during one of his stops, that he is not a man of excess."

'It will be war'

'It will be war' - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM: "CORPORATE Area taxi operators will meet this afternoon at the Gaynstead High School in Kingston to discuss plans by the state-run Jamaica Urban Transit Company (JUTC) to take back sub-franchise routes from minibuses and taxis.

The taximen, represented by the East Central Taxi Route Association and the Jamaica Transport Operators Service, vowed yesterday that they would not be giving back the routes without a fight."

Policeman freed after seven years off duty - Saturday | November 22, 2008

Jamaica Gleaner News - Policeman freed after seven years off duty - Saturday | November 22, 2008: "One of three policemen who have been taken off the job for the past seven years was set free on Thursday after a Home Circuit Court jury found him not guilty of a murder charge.

The jury retired for more than three hours and freed District Constable Sylford Williams of the murder of 23-year-old labourer Richard Williams, also called 'Truie', who was shot dead at a boat factory at 102 Spanish Town Road, Kingston."

Two more remanded over Central Bank heist

The Nation Newspaper | Two more remanded over Central Bank heist: "TWO MEN accused of laundering more than $135 000 of the $1.4 million stolen from the Central Bank were remanded when they appeared in the Bridgetown Traffic Court Friday.

Shawn Antonio Rollins and Shawn Durand Hurst both return to court on December 17.

Hurst, a 21-year-old shopkeeper of No. 5, 3rd Avenue, North Wildey, St, Michael, was not required to plead to directly engaging in money laundering, between May 1 and November 10 this year, in that he had $51 807 that was the proceeds of crime."

|59 hurt in morning crash

The Nation Newspaper | 59 hurt in morning crash: "SOME PASSENGERS were thrown from their seats, while others hit their faces on the seats in front, as two Transport Board buses and a taxi were involved in a collision on My Lord's Hill, St Michael, just after8:50 a.m. yesterday.

Toddlers, schoolchildren, people on their way to work and pensioners are among about 59 people who received injuries in the crash which sent emergency personnel into high gear, declaring it a mass casualty situation."

99 Years in the TCI

More reaction to protest

HORRIFIC CRASH … Cashew Hill man killed in highway accident

Antigua Sun: "Almost one week after a father of two lost his life in a tragic pickup accident, the life of another young man was gruesomely snuffed out yesterday in what was described as the worst fatality for the year.

Workers from the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) struggled for almost one hour to cut 38-year-old Andy Frederick of Cashew Hill out of his green Nissan Sentra using the Jaws of Life.

Reports are that Frederick was driving from south to north on the Sir George Walter Highway also known as Airport Road when he tried to overtake a 10-tonne truck, but Frederick did not make it as he reportedly lost control of his vehicle, ran off the road, and crashed into a mahogany tree on the western side of the road."

Her HIV agony

The Nation Newspaper | Her HIV agony: "THE AIDS GIRL.

This was one of the many derogatory names given to a then six-year-old Peaches (her nickname) by schoolmates and her community.

Now 21, the trauma of her early years was still evident in her voice as she recounted her experience to the WEEKEND NATION, as one of the children born with HIV in Barbados in the 1980s.

Peaches had to shoulder a burden that no child should have to carry."