Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after his wife and child carried food for him, a fish vendor was gunned down on the street in broad daylight yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men of North Eastern Settlement, Sangre Grande have been shot dead, in what it the country’s first triple-murder for 2022.

(Trinidad Express) Government’s decision to lift the ban on open-air pyre cremations for Covid-19 victims is a victory for the Hindu community and the people of Trinidad and Tobago, says Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) Secretary General Vijay Maharaj.

(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.

(Reuters) – Venezuela has ramped up shipments of gasoline and food to Cuba since November, providing key supplies to one of President Nicolas Maduro’s closest allies, according to documents from Venezuelan state-run oil company PDVSA and Refinitiv Eikon tanker tracking data.

(Trinidad Express) Two more police officers have died as a result of Covid-19.

 (Trinidad Express) A teenager is among the nine suspects detained for the kidnapping for ransom of St Helena couple Narine and Mattie ­Maraj.

(Trinidad Guardian) Garth Perkins’ infectious smile was known to warm those around him, but when the Jamaican national was murdered in Port- of- Spain on Monday, shock waves rippled from here to his home over a thousand kilometres away.

(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll shot up to 17 yesterday with four more murders.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days after the husband of a kidnapped woman of Madras Settlement escaped their kidnappers, the 54-year-old woman was found wandering along Cumaca Road, Valencia yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations continue into the murder of a man who was shot dead on Monday night along Broadway in Port-of-Spain when he stopped to purchase a meal.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was sworn into office for his fourth consecutive term yesterday, hours after the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on several figures in his government following elections Washington has called a “sham”.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shootout between police and bandits on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway near the Couva hospital has resulted in the death of one man while another escaped.

BARINAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan opposition candidate yesterday won an election for governor of Barinas state, the birth place of the late former leader Hugo Chavez, bringing an end to 22 years of Socialist party rule there.

(Trinidad Guardian) Well-known pharmacist David Samuel Rahaman has been murdered. Rahaman was shot dead in St James on Saturday night and investigators believe that a bar owner may hold the key to cracking the investigations.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who was part of a couple kidnapped from their farm in Piarco and for whom a $2 million ransom was made, has escaped his kidnappers.

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister and Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stuart Young says fireworks should not be sold to members of the public, and are a waste of foreign exchange.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – At least six people died and nine were seriously injured when a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall in southeastern Brazil yesterday, the local fire department said.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian Victor Escobar became the first person in the Andean country with a non-terminal illness to die by legally regulated euthanasia late on Friday, his lawyer Luis Giraldo confirmed.

 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has paused some of its cruise operations amid rising numbers of COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant.