ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – Former foreign affairs minister Karl Hood has publicly endorsed the main opposition New National Party (NNP) as Grenadians prepare to elect a new government on February 19.
Hood, who resigned from the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, last year, was the surprise guest speaker at a rally of the NNP here on Sunday.
SCARBOROUGH, Tobago, CMC – Five people were killed in a two car smash up along the Claude Noel Highway during the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.
They have identified those killed as Alloy Duke, Fernando Stewart, Christian Stewart, Anesha Hamilton and Stephen Winchester, but gave no further details on the accident which has marred the 2013 Carnival celebrations on the sister isle.
They said investigations were continuing.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – An earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9 and depth of 110 km rattled sections of Trinidad early Sunday morning. It’s reported that the tremor was also felt in Grenada. The Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI) said the quake occurred at 1:27 (local time) . It said the quake occurred north of the Paria Peninsula in Trinidad.
(Jamaica Observer) Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart yesterday urged Jamaicans to stop sitting around waiting for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal and to get on with the job of moving Jamaica forward through export earning. “We are all sitting around waiting for an IMF deal to draw down on funds from various sources. All that represents is borrowing, borrowing, and more borrowing,” the business mogul said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A huge, rarely-seen 100-mile long internal wave has been spotted near the north coast of Trinidad. A photo released two days ago by the International Space Station (ISS) shows the presence of the natural phenomenon which has largely gone undetected in T&T.
An article from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observatory has defined “internal waves” as “the surface manifestation of slow waves that move tens of metres beneath the sea surface.”
(Trinidad Express) A 28-year-old Central woman will create history in Trinidad and Tobago and the region when she delivers the Caribbean’s first sextuplets. And, just yesterday, another woman was admitted to Mt Hope Women’s Hospital with quadruplets. The young woman who will deliver the six babies was all smiles yesterday at Mt Hope where, in a brief interview with the media, she said she was ready to bring her bundles of joy into this world.