Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A construction worker was shot dead near his home in South Oropouche on Tuesday.

(Barbados Nation) A Barbadian man who police in England referred to as “evil” is now attracting the attention of detectives investigating deaths of at least two people since he was deported to his land of birth.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s highest court has averted a “massacre” by blocking the eviction of 5,000 indigenous people from disputed land, one of their leaders said, in a ruling that boosted ancestral claims.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump canceled his first official trip to Latin America, the White House announced yesterday, triggering a mix of relief and criticism from a region he has repeatedly disparaged over immigration, narcotics and trade.

(Trinidad Express) A day after his demotion, Darryl Smith has been dismissed as a Government Minister.

(Barbados Nation) Two brothers, Mark and Ricky Harewood perished yesterday morning in a fire at Fairview Christ Church.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezuelan was killed trying to escape from his abductors who snatched him while he was on his way home from work on Friday night.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian association of criminal lawyers requested yesterday that a Supreme Court justice issue an injunction freeing former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who began serving a 12-year sentence for bribery over the weekend.

(Trinidad Guardian) An act of honesty has earned a young lady high praise and has gone viral as more people learn about it.

 OSLO,  (Reuters) – Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro denied yesterday its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil had contaminated local waters, contradicting the findings of a Brazilian public health group.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia yesterday arrested a soon-to-be congressman from the Marxist FARC party on charges of drug trafficking, the government said, sparking outrage from the former rebel group that demobilized last year.

VALENCIA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday reopened air and sea links to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, three months after cutting them off in an attempt to curb smuggling.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s government has been told that development projects, including hydropower dams, in protected areas can no longer go ahead without the prior approval of lawmakers.

(Trinidad Guardian) An act of honesty has earned a young lady high praise and has gone viral as more people learn about it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Evidence surfaced on Friday pointing fingers at the UNC political strategists debating the use of confidential information to influence potential voters in the run-up to the 2015 general election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Security has been increased around former Minister of National Security, Robert Montague, following reports out of the United States of a possible threat on his life by gunrunners.

SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on Saturday, ending a day-long standoff to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption that derails his bid to return to power.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic moment that should help conserve forests and counter climate change.

(Trinidad Guardian) Public officials who usurped the authority of the political directorate and not Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses, were responsible for T&T’s recent refusal to support Dominica’s request for waiver of its dues for the Organisation of American States (OAS) last month.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge yesterday ordered former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to turn himself in to police within 24 hours to serve a 12-year sentence for a graft conviction, likely ending the presidential front-runner’s hopes of returning to power.