Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) High-powered weapons were used in the killing of an employee of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) at La Horquetta yesterday morning.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer criticized the leftist government of neighbouring Venezuela yesterday for leading that country into a crisis that is causing an exodus of refugees into northern Brazil.

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp said on Thursday its oil and gas reserves surged 19 percent last year, thanks to growth in U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Colombia has contacted international lending agencies about devising a financial rescue plan worth up to $60 billion for neighbouring Venezuela if President Nicholas Maduro leaves power, Colombia’s finance minister said in an interview yesterday.

aPresident of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Warren Smith,  on Wednesday announced that the institution is making US$700 to 800 million available to help Borrowing Member Countries (BMCs) recover from the impact of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season.

(Trinidad Express) Erin fishermen continue the search for three men who went down with their pirogue on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) There are over 7,000 police officers in the Police Service, but 1,100 more are needed.

(Trinidad Express) There are over 7,000 police officers in the Police Service, but 1,100 more are needed.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has lauded the Government for the important progress made in combating lottery scamming and assured of the US Government’s continued support to Jamaica’s security forces and criminal justice system.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday set a presidential election for April 22 after mediation talks between the leftist government and an opposition coalition collapsed, setting the stage for the likely re-election of President Nicolas Maduro.

(Trinidad Guardian) In the space of three years, Monica “Cris” Gumbs suffered through the murder of her nephew, husband, son-in-law and the shooting of one of her daughters.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s trade minister defended China as a good trade partner yesterday, after U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A power outage which the government blamed on “sabotage” hit parts of Venezuelan capital Caracas yesterday, forcing at least 10 subway stations to close and affecting traffic signals and phone lines during rush hour.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Leading Cuban independent media said they want nothing to do with a Trump administration initiative to foster more such outlets on the communist-run isle, contending it interferes in Cuba’s politics and creates the impression they are U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian)  “No, I am not a lesbian.” That was the firm response of president-elect Paula-Mae Weekes yesterday as she sought to put to rest questions, raised on social media, about her sexual orientation in light of the fact that she has never been married or had any children.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Former TV anchor and evangelical singer Fabricio Alvarado Munoz will face a centre-left fiction writer in Costa Rica’s presidential election runoff, definitively ending decades of a two-party system in the peaceful Central American nation.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s support for Venezuela has benefited ordinary people and been broadly welcomed, the foreign ministry said yesterday after the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 22-year-old bank employee has been charged with syphoning monies from customers’ accounts totalling just over $.3 million.

(Trinidad Guardian) It wasn’t difficult to find the home of Ajay Aberdeen yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – The United States is considering restricting imports of Venezuelan crude oil and exports of U.S.