Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Marabella man was stabbed to death on Friday by his neighbour, an outpatient of the mental hospital.

(Trinidad Express) A Canadian citizen on vacation in his homeland was found murdered in Ste Madeleine yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after alleged fraudster Vicky Boodram escaped from the Women’s Prison at Golden Grove, Arouca, she was recaptured in Penal last night.

SAN JOSE,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – This greenest of Central American nations this month broke the world record for the most consecutive days running on renewable energy – 300.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Moravian pastor Rupert Clarke has pleaded guilty to two counts of having sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 years old.

(Barbados Nation) Regional petroleum company Sol’s US$100 million attempt to buy the state-owned oil terminal has been halted.

(Trinidad Express) The Express has learnt that a second police is being questioned in connection with the escape of Vicky Boodram.

(Trinidad Guardian) In what is being touted as the greatest escape in the history of the country, alleged fraudster Vicky Nirupa Boodram walked out of the Arouca Prison on Monday afternoon and has not been seen since.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan leftist President Nicolas Maduro last evening held a ceremony to swear in a military officer as the new head of state oil company PDVSA in the presence of the military’s top brass and cheering red-shirted oil workers.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – A large iceberg broke off the Grey glacier in southern Chile, authorities said yesterday, adding that the cause of the rupture was unclear.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – An El Salvador court yesterday ruled in a civil case that former President Mauricio Funes and one of his sons had illegally enriched themselves and ordered them to pay nearly $420,000 in restitution to the government, a prosecutor said.

The St Vincent & Grenadines (SVG) government has recalled one of his diplomats attached to the United Nations following a report that police were called to his home in the United States after he punched his wife, also a diplomat, in her mouth.

(Trinidad Guardian) Embattled Chief Justice Ivor Archie has refused a request to meet with his fellow judges to discuss recent misconduct allegations made against him.

BOGOTA,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Killings and violence against LGBT people in Central America are driving hundreds to flee their homes each year, but they have no safe sanctuary to run to, Amnesty International said yesterday.

 (Trinidad Guardian) Hindu devotees and followers of a well-known Pundit in central Trinidad, Head Pujarie Sunil Ragbirsingh were yesterday left in shock and indescribable grief after learning that their beloved leader was killed during a home invasion at his home at Five Rivers in Arouca on Saturday night.

(Jamaica Observer) BRIGHTON, Westmoreland — The Savanna-la-Mar police were up to late Saturday afternoon probing the bizarre death of four people who were burnt beyond recognition in a house here Friday evening.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba took another step yesterday toward the end of the Castro era, with millions of residents placing paper ballots in cardboard boxes for ward delegates to municipal assemblies.

(Barbados Nation) Political insensitivity. That’s how economist Professor Michael Howard has described the proposal of former Central Bank Governor Dr DeLisle Worrell for an immediate restructuring of the Barbados economy.

(Trinidad Express) Former housing minister Dr Roodal Moonilal said yesterday he never collected an original cheque from the Estate Management Business Development Company (EMBD) for delivery to a contractor.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is condemning the lawlessness that took place in two Port-of-Spain communities on Thursday, and is warning criminals his Government will not tolerate anarchy.