Regional News

(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.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ramraj Samaroo yesterday appeared in the Couva Magistrates Court charged with the murder of his younger brother.

Caribbean leaders yesterday announced the launch of a new public-private coalition to create the world’s first “climate-smart zone”, according to a release from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).

(Trinidad Guardian) Special Reserve police officer Richard Babwah was killed on Monday evening during an attempted robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Arouca.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Ground is to be broken today at Paradise Park, Westmoreland, for what is being described as the largest solar-powered plant in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) Special Reserve police officer Richard Babwah was killed last evening during an attempted robbery at a Chinese restaurant in Arouca.

BOA VISTA, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Last August, Victor Rivera, a 36-year-old unemployed baker, left his hometown in northern Venezuela and made the two-day journey by road to the remote Amazonian city of Boa Vista, Brazil.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 44-year-old mother of two was killed and her daughter and three other people were injured, after a gunman opened fire in a Manzanilla bar on Saturday night.

Stronger co-operation in disaster risk management is among the major decisions of the Sixth CARICOM-Cuba Summit, held in Antigua and Barbuda on Friday, a release from the CARICOM Secretariat said on Saturday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Gunmen yesterday attacked mourners at a funeral at Kings Chapel on Windward Road in Kingston, killing two people and injuring seven others.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Honduras’ electoral tribunal said yesterday that a partial recount of votes from the disputed presidential election showed broadly the same result as previously, giving the lead to current President Juan Orlando Hernandez.

(Trinidad Guardian) A male hairdresser who along with his aunt were conned of $8,500 for Housing Development Corporation (HDC) houses says the man who defrauded them told him Chief Justice Ivor Archie was his contact to obtain the units.

LIMA (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski acknowledged that he worked as a financial adviser for an irrigation project owned by the Brazilian builder Odebrecht on Saturday, contradicting his previous denials of having any links to the company.

(Trinidad Express) A man whose female friend was found murdered last year and whose wife disappeared two months ago has also gone missing.

(Trinidad Guardian) There have been 998 gang-related murders from 2010 to July of 2017, Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister Stuart Young says.

(Trinidad Express) The 60-year-old mother-in-law of the pundit murdered during a reported robbery at his Arouca home on November 25 will appear before an Arima Magistrate today, along with a 22 year old handyman charged with his killing.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras’ election tribunal will re-count 4,753 ballot boxes that have cast a shadow on the results of the country’s presidential election, the tribunal chief said on Thursday, bowing to a demand by the Organization of American States (OAS).

(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Constabulary Force and its law enforcement counterparts in the United States are now conducting a major investigation following the seizure of more than 100 illegal firearms at the Miami International Airport in Florida.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The regulating of political parties and monitoring of their campaign financing activities should start next year.