Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Kizzy Bernard, the lone woman accused in the $5.5 million robbery at the Piarco International Airport, was yesterday denied bail by an Arima magistrate.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Entertainer Ninja Man and his co-convicts have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2009 murder of a Kingston man.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) said late on Sunday that Honduras should hold new presidential elections, after the electoral tribunal declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the bitterly contested Nov.

(Trinidad Express) Two men are due to appear before a Rio Claro Magis-trate yesterday charged in connection with the charred remains of a missing man found along Pato Trace, Biche, on December 8.

(Trinidad Express) A Manzanilla man is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate in connection with the December 9 shooting death of his 44-year-old sister-in-law and the wounding of her 18-year-old daughter and two others, at a bar in Manzanilla.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 62-year-old mother of five walked out the Sangre Grande Magistrate’s Court a free woman on Friday after 12 years and six months awaiting trial.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Billionaire conservative Sebastian Pinera won Chile’s presidency yesterday, with his centre-left opponent Alejandro Guillier conceding the election as Chile followed other South American nations in a political turn to the right.

(Trinidad Express) Cuban  refugees who have been living outside the United Nations office on Keate Street, Port of Spain in tents made out of tarpaulin yesterday denied media reports that they were offered assistance for housing by the Living Water Community (LWC) and refused.

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – Venezuela has awarded licences to a unit of Russian oil major Rosneft to develop two offshore gas fields, Rosneft said in a statement.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The electoral tribunal of Honduras yesterday declared incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez as the official winner of the Nov.

(Trinidad Express) Samantha Isaacs began her Friday night celebrating her 27th birthday with friends.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soca superstar Machel Montano and music producer Kernal Roberts have won their appeal against their convictions for assaulting a group of friends at a nightclub, almost a decade ago.

The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has approved US$29 million in funding to Antigua and Barbuda and US$65.5 million to the British Virgin Islands (BVI)  to aid recovery efforts after the passage of hurricanes Irma, Maria and Jose in September.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after PC Richard Babwah was killed during a shootout with bandits, another officer was shot under similar circumstances in Marabella.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after PC Richard Babwah was killed during a shootout with bandits, another officer was shot under similar circumstances in Marabella.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A pledge by health and development experts to tackle neglected diseases that blind, disable and disfigure millions of the world’s poorest people has spurred tremendous progress in five years, a report said yesterday.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil topped the list of the world’s most important Places to Watch for deforestation on Wednesday, in a new initiative that uses near real-time satellite to highlight forest loss.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 2,000 school janitors are threatening to stay off the job in the new school term in January if they are not paid outstanding salaries owed since October.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s music fraternity is again in shock following the murder of one of its members.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Puerto Rican officials and mayors paid last-minute visits to Capitol Hill yesterday to urge lawmakers to shield the island from a tax proposal they say could destroy 75,000 jobs and wipe out a third of its tax base.