KINGSTON, Jamaica - AUSTIN 'Jack' Warner, who on Monday felt compelled to quit as Trinidad and Tobago's minister of national security, following scathing findings of a CONCACAF-authorised probe, seems to be the kind of politician one could either easily admire or strongly dislike.
His name is virtually synonymous with management of regional/international football and there are those who consider him to be an enigma in a riddle.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The storm that had been blowing and strengthening in the direction of Trinidad & Tobago National Security Minister Jack Warner’s direction for the last five years or so, has finally hit him with full force. The former President of CONCACAF’s resignation as FIFA Vice President in 2011, signalled that he was beginning to perceive that all was not well.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday that she does not expect any backlash from her former top Government Minister, Jack Warner. In fact, the Prime Minister expressed confidence that Warner will continue to toe the party and Government line and do the right thing.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – A three-day regional workshop on the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections began here on Tuesday with Health Minister Julius Timothy warning of the increased financial burden on governments to treat with patients hospitalised as a result of those infections.
Haiti PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The London-based human rights group, Amnesty International, is accusing Haiti of violating international obligations after hundreds of people were forced to leave impromptu settlements that sprang up following the 2010 devastating earthquake in the French speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country. In a study released by Amnesty International, the human rights group said more than 20,000 families face forced eviction by private landowners or the authorities. “Homelessness is the most immediate consequence of forced eviction.
It was a tough start to the week for many air travellers. Flight delays piled up all along the East Coast on Monday as thousands of air traffic controllers were forced to take an unpaid day off because of federal budget cuts.
Some flights into New York, Baltimore and Washington were delayed by more than two hours as the Federal Aviation Administration kept planes on the ground because there weren't enough controllers to monitor busy air corridors.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Jamaica government, insisting it is committed to facilitating the media in its work, Monday said it would hold discussions with the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) and other media stakeholders “on the matter of protocols governing media interviews with the Prime Minister”. The announcement by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) follows criticism by the PAJ over what it termed the deliberate efforts to shield Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller from facing answering questions from the media on current and controversial national issues. .
ST JOHN’S, Antigua – Former general secretary of the Antigua & Barbuda Football Association (ABFA) Senator Paul “Chet” Greene does not fear wider fallout for Caribbean football after the resignation of Trinidad & Tobago’s former National Security Minister Austin “Jack” Warner.
Warner on Monday resigned from his post as national security minister, as chairman of the United National Congress (UNC), the main party of Trinidad & Tobago’s ruling coalition government.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - The United States should seriously reconsider its diplomatic stand-off with Venezuela, now extended to its reservations over the recent presidential poll that resulted in a very close victory – less than two per cent – for Nicolas Maduro, successor to the late president Hugo Chavez.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC - Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries say they are looking forward to “continued goodwill, friendship and cooperation” that has characterised their relationship with Venezuela following the electoral victory of Nicolás Maduro. Maduro, who had been chosen by the late Venezuelan Leader Hugo Chavez, was sworn into office over the weekend following his victory at the polls earlier this month. The ceremony was attended by several Caribbean leaders.