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BAHAMAS
+ Recaptured prisoner is acquitted
Jurors yesterday acquitted Renardo Bastian of charges of armed robbery, rape, kidnapping, and receiving.
http://www.thenassauguardian.net/national_local/297217394119327.php
+ Access Hollywood co-host, author shares uplifting advice with young girls
A year after penning her book "Exactly as I am: Celebrated Women Share Candid Advice with Today's Girls on What it takes to Believe in Yourself," award-winning journalist Shaun Robinson traveled to The Bahamas to share its powerful message with two groups of young women.
http://www.thenassauguardian.net/social_community/145028995771682.php
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
+ Taxi driver to be charged for college student’s death
BVI News was informed Wendell Varlack, the driver behind the wheel of the taxi, which killed an H.Lavity Stoutt Community College student could be charged with manslaughter.
http://bvinews.com/?p=4047
+ THE MOVE: New youth group formed
There are many influences on our youth today: television, movies, videogames, peer pressure, and the erosion of the family unit as a safe and supportive environment for growth. We cannot control some of these influences but we can provide our youth with the tools to make powerful choices; choices that reflect their true purposes in life.
http://bvinews.com/?p=4306
+ Deputy premier urges youth to explore new career choices
Young people were encouraged to explore new horizons in their career choices because there are huge gaps in some employment sectors of the Territory that need to be filled, according to Minister of Health and Social Development, Hon. Dancia Penn-Sallah, QC.
http://bvinews.com/?p=4623
CUBA
+ More Latin Americans Studying Medicine in Las Tunas
Latin Americans studying medicine in the provinces of Matanzas and Cienfuegos will continue their career at the Mario Muñoz Monroy University, a subsidiary of the Zoilo Marinello University of Medical Sciences in this eastern city.
http://www.periodico26.cu/english/education/jan2010/latin-americans050610.html
JAMAICA
+ Students under pressure
I am a final year student at the University of the West Indies. For the duration of my three-year sojourn at this institution, the worst challenges I have experienced have been in my last two semesters.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100507/letters/letters5.html
ST VINCENT & THE GRENADINES
+ Schoolgirl suffers brutal cutlass attack
This is the response of a village still in a state of shock as they try to come to grips with the brutal cutlass attack meted out to 18-year-old Afeisha ‘Squingy’ Toby in the wee hours of last Sunday morning.
http://www.searchlight.vc/link.asp?smenu=1&twindow=&sdetail=26800&mad=&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=
TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
+ WIGUT impasse worries UWI students
Undergraduate students of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine fear they may not get their examinations results on time due to an ongoing salaries impasse between lecturers and the administration.
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,120315.html
+ 101 students get postgrad schols
Prime Minister Patrick Manning yesterday assured that his government is raising the bar in education which would benefit the entire region in the long run.
http://newsday.co.tt/news/0,120380.html
US VIRGIN ISLANDS
+ Two Teen Parents Charged in Infant's Death
Two teenagers, Kaseem Bruno, 19, and 18-year-old Lilia Roumo, were arrested Saturday and charged with first degree murder in the death of their 2-month-old child, Kaliah K. Bruno.
http://stthomassource.com/content/news/local-news/2010/05/10/two-teen-parents-charged-infants-death |
