Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) When the new school term opens in September, all sugary drinks including soft drinks will be banned from schools across the country.

(Trinidad Express) A Government worker who contended he was never allowed in 2011 to act in the position of diesel mechanic because he is of East Indian descent won $167,351 from the Ministry of Food Production (now Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries) in court yesterday.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States is considering financial sanctions on Venezuela that would halt dollar payments for the country’s oil, according to a senior White House official and an adviser with direct knowledge of the discussions.

CARACAS/HOUSTON  (Reuters) – Russia’s top oil producer Rosneft is negotiating to swap its collateral in Venezuelan-owned, U.S.-based

(Trinidad Guardian) We will pay back the taxpayers. This was the assurance given by representative for CL Financial (CLF) shareholders Carlton Reis, moments after the Government last night lost its bid to appoint a pair of provisional liquidators to recoup the remaining $15 billion it spent to bail out the company’s cash-strapped subsidiary Clico since 2009.

(Trinidad Guardian) Don’t expect Parliament to resolve the 53 unfinished matters left in limbo by former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar.

(Trinidad Guardian) When 17-year-old David Sancaro rushed to a bar to protect a woman he didn’t even know from physical abuse being meted out by her enraged lover on Sunday, little did he know his gallantry would have cost him his life.

(Trinidad Express) The younger brother of Haffiza Rose Mohammed, 56, on Monday appeared before an Arima magistrate charged with her murder as well as that of her 13-year-old neighbour, Videsh Subar.

(Trinidad Express) If you are travelling out of Piarco International Airport to the United States, it would be wise to get there more than three hours earlier as the United States Department of Homeland Security has requested increased security checks.

(Barbados Nation) Police are continuing  their investigations into Monday night’s shooting death of Colleen Beresdean Payne, 58, of Lodge Hill, St Michael.

(Trinidad Guardian) When 17-year-old David Sancaro rushed to a bar to protect a woman he didn’t even know from physical abuse being meted out by her enraged lover on Sunday, little did he know his gallantry would have cost him his life.

(Trinidad Guardian) CAL’s communications manager Dione Ligoure yesterday apologised to the hundreds of passengers affected by the delays.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition called yesterday for a national shutdown against President Nicolas Maduro in a major escalation of protests against a leftist government it accuses of flouting the people’s will.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Construc-tion of a power plant on the Teles Pires River in Brazil was paralyzed by protesting members of the Munduruku tribe, a leader of the movement told Reuters yesterday, adding to tensions over land conflicts in South America’s largest country.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutor’s office called yesterday for the detention of eight security personnel who savagely attacked a man with Asperger’s syndrome near an anti-government protest.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Labour’s hands are tied in bringing a resolution to the ongoing strike action taken by Caribbean Airlines pilots.

(Trinidad Express) Spiteful. That’s how former executive chairman of CL Financial (CLF) Lawrence Duprey views Government’s decision to apply to the High Court to wind up the conglomerate.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar will discuss campaign finance reform, internal self government for Tobago and the Integrity Commission, among other matters when they meet tomorrow.

(Trinidad Guardian) National rugby player Jivon Alexander had aspirations of joining either the Police Service or the Air Guard, but his life was snuffed out by a single bullet to the chest.

(Trinidad Guardian) On the heels of an emergency landing in St Lucia by an ATR aircraft belonging to Caribbean Airlines (CAL), pilots yesterday held a “critical” meeting to discuss safety concerns over the aircraft.