Regional News

(Barbados Nation) By June, Barbadians should be able to switch their phone service providers without having to change their number.

(Trinidad Guardian) On a day when his music would usually be celebrated by tens of thousands on the streets of Trinidad and Tobago, soca star Machel Montano on Tuesday thrilled millions in India as he performed at Sadhguru’s MahaShivRatri’s celebrations.

NEW DELHI/HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has agreed to allocate cargoes to producers ONGC from India and Maurel & Prom from France to settle debts, but the deals await U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Stuart Young has admitted that Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited failed to communicate properly with both the families of the lost divers and the rest of the population.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley will not be attending the 33rd Caricom Inter-Sessional meeting which starts in Belize this morning – and which will be the first Inter-Sessional where regional leaders meet face to face since 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) The bodies of three of the four divers who were trapped in a Paria Fuel pipeline since Friday have been recovered.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Environmental permits for Honduran metal and non-metal mining will be cancelled, the country’s government said in a brief statement yesterday, describing the industry as harmful and declaring it will specifically prohibit open-pit mining.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration is expected to announce as soon as this week a plan to beef up its skeletal staffing in the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Christopher Boodram lived because he was the last man to be pulled into the darkness of the undersea pipeline.

 (Trinidad Express) Imran “GI” Beharry has done it again. He is the 2022 Chutney Soca Monarch champion.

(Trinidad Express) As clueless family members sat under an old bus shed in Pointe a Pierre awaiting word of the rescue plans for their loved ones, the management of Paria Fuel Trading Company called a press conference at the ball room across the road last night, and announced the deaths of the four men.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday declined to condemn Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, while departing from his government’s official stance at the United Nations to say Brazil would remain neutral.

(Trinidad Guardian) Nine books–seven by women and five by newly published writers–have made the 12th OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature longlist for 2022.

(Trinidad Express) A second morning has dawned, and the four underwater welders sucked into a crude oil pipeline in the waters off Pointe a Pierre, are yet to be recovered.

(Trinidad Guardian) On Tuesday (Carnival Tuesday), soca superstar Machel Montano will perform at the biggest event of his career, the MahaShivRatri celebrations, at the Isha Yoga Center in India.

The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and its Member States yesterday strongly condemned the ongoing military operations being conducted against Ukraine by the Russian Federation.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A desperate search has been launched to find four divers who disappeared yesterday during a maintenance exercise on a Paria Trading Company sealine riser.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia’s space agency Roskosmos is suspending cooperation with Europe on space launches from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana in response to Western sanctions over Ukraine, Roskosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) – A 67-year-old woman was knifed to death at her home in Mayaro on Friday night.

(Trinidad Express) A 67-year-old woman was stabbed death by her son last night, during an argument at their Mayaro home.