Call for single Caribbean currencyKINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC):
The head of the newly formed Regional Integration and Diaspora Unit says he is not optimistic that Caribbean Community countries will establish a single currency in a bid to further deepen the regional integration process.
"We can move and grow without necessarily having one currency. It will be beneficial but, at this point in time, I am not optimistic, but definitely if it could be achieved it would be beneficial," Ambassador Ellsworth John told the Caribbean Media Corporation. "Getting us to all agree to one currency, therefore allowing us to move the economic agenda around, is going to be the toughest part."
Police inquiry into death of student
ST GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):
Police are investigating the death of a 26-year-old student of an American off-shore university whose body was found at her upscale apartment on Wednesday.
Police said that no one had been arrested in the death of the St. George's University medical student, Pamela Woll, from Indiana.
"It is with profound sorrow and regret that the administration of St. George's University mourns the passing of Ms Pamela Woll," the university said in a brief statement. "The cause of Ms. Woll's death is not known at this time and a police investigation is under way."
Case against deputy PM not over
ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC):
Lawyers representing American oil tycoon Jack Grynberg say the case against Grenada's Deputy Prime Minister Gregory Bowen in a U.S. court is not yet over.
The lawyers were responding to a Grenada government statement that Bowen had "again been victorious in his defence against a law suit re-filed in the United States accusing him of impropriety by US businessman Jack Grynberg".
The government statement noted that "Grynberg's attempt to revive the case against Minister Bowen was dismissed on Friday September 28 on a submission filed by Mr. Bowen's Attorney,Jade Johnson.
Panday welcomes Privy Council ruling
PORT- OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):
Former prime minister, Basdeo Panday, insists that his arrest and conviction on charges that he had failed to declare a London bank account to the Integrity Commission was part of a plot by the ruling People's National Movement (PNM) to "keep me out of politics and Parliament".
Panday made the statement soon after the London-based Privy Council gave him leave to pursue his appeal against the ruling of the Appeal Court that he be re-tried even though it had set aside the jail term that had been imposed by a magistrate's court last year.
He said the ruling by the Privy Council is "slowly but surely revealing that there was a conspiracy between the PNM and the Attorney General (John Jeremie) in order to keep me out of politics and Parliament."
