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(Trinidad Guardian) Police are questioning seven people in relation to a multi-million dollar robbery at the Piarco International Airport yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police were last night questioning seven people in relation to a multi-million dollar robbery at the Piarco International Airport yesterday morning.

CODRINGTON, Barbuda, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three months after Hurricane Irma devastated Barbuda, residents are in a state of limbo over plans to shake up the Caribbean island’s ancient communal land ownership, a move they fear will destroy their culture and pave the way for property speculation.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Counter-Trafficking Unit, working with other law enforcement agencies, will be focusing on disrupting operations at known “places of ill-repute” to deter demands for commercial sexual services, says acting National Security Minister Stuart Young.

(Trinidad Express) Vicky Boodram and two police officers appeared in court on Tuesday afternoon, jointly charged with fraudulently facilitating her release from the Women’s Prison, Golden Grove eight days ago.

ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay’s Congress passed a bill yesterday creating a state-sponsored system to import marijuana seeds and grow the plant for medical uses, a decision that followed other countries in Latin America.

(Trinidad Guardian) With 16 people being killed in the last four days of this new and last month of 2017, senior police officers are now looking to push different strategies to “up their game.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi has ordered a probe after a report surfaced in the United Kingdom on Sunday that a UK pollster received US$10 million from the former Kamla Persad-Bissessar administration for work conducted in T&T between 2013 and 2015.

(Jamaica Gleaner) QUEENS, New York: The Jamaican diaspora was jolted Saturday evening as news of the death of the renowned CEO and founder of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery and Grill, Lowell Hawthorne, circulated throughout the community.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica  — A Jamaican man living in Britain for 52 years has been threatened with deportation in what’s being described as the latest instance of heavy-handed treatment by the Home Office.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are claiming a massive breakthrough in dismantling one of Jamaica’s most sophisticated and ruthless criminal outfits, the Terrence Gang.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – The founder and CEO of Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill killed himself inside his Bronx factory Saturday, police sources said.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday gained more powers over the OPEC member’s oil contracts, as a deepening purge looks set to strengthen the leftist leader’s control of the key energy sector amid a debilitating recession.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Members of Venezuela’s government and opposition coalition failed to reach a deal in a new round of talks in the Dominican Republic on Saturday aimed at resolving the OPEC nation’s protracted political crisis, but planned to meet in two weeks to try again.

(Trinidad Guardian) Vicky Boodram’s father, Ramjass Boodram, was driven to make her a child star as a way out of poverty says her mother, Indra Lall.

(Trinidad Guardian) Vicky Boodram’s father, Ramjass Boodram, was driven to make her a child star as a way out of poverty says her mother, Indra Lall, yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Former Brazilian senator and environmental minister Marina Silva said on Saturday that she would seek her party’s nomination to run for president next year.

(Trinidad Guardian) President of State-owned Petrotrin Fitzroy Harewood has resigned. His resignation takes effect on February 28, 2018 and comes weeks after a report found that the so-called “fake oil scandal” was real.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba is working on fixing chronic medicine shortages that started appearing a year ago due to its cash crunch, health officials said in an article published late on Thursday in ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Point Fortin man who posed as a PH driver to prey on women on Thursday pleaded guilty to six charges, including robbery, kidnapping, rape and manslaughter.