Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T could expect $23 billion in investments in the downstream energy sector over the next four years, according to “a secret” Ministry of Energy document.

Barbados Nation: A call is being made for a policy on rain harvesting and an increase in water rates to finance the Barbados Water Authority (BWA).

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican airline Volaris said on Friday it was offering free flights to reunite families separated by the “zero tolerance” immigration policy of U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner): Over 2,000 pounds of ganja valued at approximately $10 million was seized in Portmore, St Catherine, Jamaica yesterday by detectives from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime division.

(Trinidad Express):  A man was shot dead while changing a tyre on his vehicle parked along Ariapita Avenue, Woodbrook, on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) Secretary Nicole Debideen left home yesterday morning, went to church, then travelled to her office, where someone killed her.

(Trinidad Express) Criminals stabbed and slit the throats of a Tamana couple on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Express) A Westmoorings man was expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate yesterday, charged with 32 counts of money laundering and one count of obtaining approximately TT$8.6 million by false representation, between the period October 2015 and April 2018. 

(Trinidad Express) As debate rages over the President Donald Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy toward immigrants and their children coming to the U.S.-Mexico

(Trinidad Express) Auto parts dealer Simon Moss was shot and killed outside his home in St Joseph on Wednesday night.

VIENNA, (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions on Venezuela are an attack against the stability of the global oil market, Venezuelan Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) American Airlines has announced the addition of non-stop, daily service from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina to Grantley Adams Inter-national Airport (BGI) beginning December 19.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Clarendon man who raped a university student after convincing her that he could exorcise a ‘duppy’ he claimed was following her was yesterday sent to prison for 15 years.

CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad and Tobago,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unemployed and without food to feed his family, Venezuelan construction worker Robert Monterosi says there is only one way he can survive – dodging customs officials to sell smuggled goods in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago and stock up there.

NEW YORK,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Puerto Rico should use some of the billions of dollars in aid pledged after a deadly hurricane last year to fix a flawed land ownership system that is hampering reconstruction, community leaders said in a report published yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) After giving the Government a failing grade during his performance appraisal at the annual Labour Day rally in Fyzabad, Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) leader Ancel Roget called on citizens to use the PNM’s third anniversary in office, September 7, to rest and reflect.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly elected as its head on Tuesday Socialist Party No.

MASAYA, Nicaragua,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police and masked gunmen clashed with anti-government protesters yesterday, leaving at least two dead following the suspension of peace talks to quell two months of deadly demonstrations, a human rights group said.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old mother of three, who had recently taken out a restraining order against a man she knew, was found dead in St James on Monday night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government is to install 1,000 closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in strategic locations islandwide by year-end.