Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A ransom of $2 million has been demanded for the safe return of 32-year-old Sheldon Sukhdeo, police have confirmed.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera asked the country’s police chief to resign yesterday following a growing controversy over the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of an indigenous man in southern Chile.

(Barbados Nation) Two years and six months after he was expected to be sentenced, Terry Cassius Seale was sentenced to 18 years in jail for manslaughter on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Some 127 pas­sen­gers ar­rived on Sun­wing Air­lines’ first-ever di­rect flight from Cana­da to To­ba­go yes­ter­day.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A second paternity test has all but concluded that the Kingston pastor who is facing criminal charges for repeatedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl is the father of her infant child, Gleaner sources have revealed.

(Jamaica Observer) The bail application that was scheduled for three St Ann residents accused of a $100-million fraud at National Commercial Bank (NCB) was cancelled yesterday in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court after it was disclosed that more charges are to be laid against the trio.

(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean airlines pilot, his Italian wife, two lawyers and a fifth person appeared in the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court this morning charged with making arrangements for the adoption of a child contrary to Section 9 (A) of the Adoption of Children Act, Chapter 46:03.

(Trinidad Guardian) Il­le­gal cell­phones in T&T’s pris­ons have be­come a lu­cra­tive busi­ness.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The police are investigating the death of a United States resident, who turned up at a gas station with a gunshot wound in Mammee Bay, St Ann earlier today.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The chief justice of Brazil’s Supreme Court late yesterday knocked down a colleague’s ruling that would have freed from jail former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but said the full court will take up the contentious case in April.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Prosecutor General Raquel Dodge yesterday charged President Michel Temer with corruption and money laundering uncovered in an investigation into graft related to port concessions, according to a statement from her office.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil has failed to replace nearly one third of the thousands of Cuban doctors who exited the country after a diplomatic spat, as many new recruits failed to turn up for work, the Health Ministry said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazilian authorities have expelled a group of illegal loggers and ranchers from a remote area of the Amazon in a risky and rare operation to protect a threatened indigenous tribe.

(Trinidad Guardian) The griev­ing com­mon-law hus­band of 26-year-old Maquad­er Mar­tin wants an­swers be­fore his wife is laid to rest.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three peo­ple, in­clud­ing a Trinci­ty cou­ple, have been charged with il­le­gal­ly adopt­ing a Venezue­lan in­fant in what po­lice are call­ing a his­toric case.

(Trinidad Express) Sheldon Sukhdeo is alive. At about 12.03a.m. today, Sheldon Sukhdeo made contact with his relatives.

(Jamaica Observer) IT’S official. Buju Banton’s first major performance will be held on March 16 at National Stadium in St Andrew.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three peo­ple were killed and one in­jured in two sep­a­rate po­lice-in­volved shoot­ings in east Trinidad yes­ter­day.

(Trinidad Guardian) A pastor, of Consolation Ministry in Arima, has appeared in court charged with grievous sexual assault.

(Barbados Nation) The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled in favour of Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) and Arawak Cement Ltd in their battle with local importer Rock Hard Cement to have tariffs on imported cement remain at 60 per cent, and not five per cent as argued by the company.