Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Mottley has painted a sobering picture of the Barbados economy.

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil showed signs of returning to normal yesterday as an oil workers union ended a strike ahead of schedule and an 11-day trucker protest wound down, a welcome breather for a government suffering from rock-bottom approval levels.

(Trinidad Express) A couple has been found dead at their Williamsville home.

(Trinidad Express) Convicted fraudster Kern Romero was not murdered. Romero, 32, a friend of Chief Justice Ivor Archie, died on Sunday night at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex from complications associated with an illness.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Three US residents have been sentenced for illegally purchasing 36 guns and smuggling them into T&T from Atlanta, Georgia.

(Jamaica Observer) The Windalco bauxite company, majority-owned by the Russian company UC Rusal, is now facing an uncertain future as both local and overseas banks are allegedly refusing to do business with the company.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Islamic terrorist group ISIS is virtually dismantled, but a warning has been sounded for Caribbean nations to be on the lookout for members of that and other radical organisations moving in to regroup or expand.

(Trinidad Express) After operating in Trinidad for almost a year and a half, ride-sharing app Uber is “pausing” its operations here.

(Trinidad Express) Watermelon vendor Brandon Samaroo was shot and killed at his vending stall in Gasparillo at around noon yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) An American Airlines flight that departed Trinidad en route to Miami, Florida yesterday made an emergency landing in Piarco after one of the pilots said that he heard screaming coming from the plane’s cargo hold.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Pesticides and Chemicals Board, chaired by the Chief Medical Officer, is currently considering the banning of importation and distribution of Gramoxone, Agriculture Minister Clarence Rambharat has revealed.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Prime Minister Mia Mottley has described yesterday’s three-hour meeting with the leadership of the Social Partnership as “very good”.

(Trinidad Express) A 23-year-old woman yesterday appeared before an Arima Magistrate charged with the May 17 murder of her 88-year old grandmother, Edna David.

(Trinidad Express) High Court judge Kevin Ramcharan appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday, a day after his midnight arrest at the scene of a crash in Maraval.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan anti-narcotics police have seized the first coca field and cocaine lab in the country’s history, officials said on Sunday, adding to a string of discoveries showing traffickers have expanded production into Central America.

 (Trinidad Guardian) One of the youngest judges sitting in the Supreme Court has been charged with driving under the influence and will appear in before a Port-of-Spain Magistrates Court today.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economic situation is even more dire than initially thought – so serious that the BD$2 to US$1 exchange rate could be in jeopardy.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Major gangsters who escaped the security forces dragnet in St James have made their way to Costa Rica, and it seems they have taken their bloody disputes to the streets of Limon, a port city on the Caribbean coast of the Central American country.

(Barbados Nation) The Mia Mottley government will be seeking to grant the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) a voice in the Senate in an attempt to maintain democracy.

(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar will “pay a hell of a price” for her comments on the issue of on-the-job trainee Nafisah Nakihd being disallowed from wearing her hijab at the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College in St Augustine.