Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) More than 2,000 illegal firearms, mostly pistols and revolvers and approximately 37,000 rounds of assorted ammunition have been recovered by the police in the past 36 months.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The former finance minister under Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday accused the ex-president of receiving bribes from contractor Odebrecht , adding to a list of corruption accusations that threaten Lula’s ability to run in 2018.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Pope Francis arrived in Colombia on Wednesday with a message of unity for a nation deeply divided by a peace deal that ended a five-decade war with Marxist FARC rebels but left many victims of the bloodshed wary of the fraught healing process.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Constant Spring Police have charged the man who was implicated in the killing of 34-year-old fashion designer Dexter Pottinger, whose body was found at his home at Yarico Place, Kingston 20 last Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seventy-six-year-old Ramdevi Singh was stabbed once in the back of the neck, a wound which paralysed her before her killer/s used her pajama pants to strangle the remaining life out of her.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor yesterday charged former Presidents Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff along with fellow Workers Party members with forming a criminal organization, the latest accusations in Brazil’s sprawling corruption scandal.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition is shifting its focus to forthcoming state elections as protests aimed at ousting President Nicolas Maduro have subsided following the installation of an all-powerful, pro-government legislative body.

(Trinidad Express) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is advising that a number of flights have been cancelled due to Hurricane Irma.

(Trinidad Express) A woman was knifed to death at her home shortly after midnight on Tuesday.

(Reuters) – Hurricane Irma strengthened into a highly dangerous Category 5 storm today as it barreled toward the Caribbean and the southern United States, even as Texas and Louisiana still reeled from devastating Hurricane Harvey.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Sunday announced a massive national firearm recovery reward programme as well as a five-day grace period for illegal weapons found on premises in the Mount Salem community, which was last Friday declared Jamaica’s first zone of special operations (ZOSO).

BOGOTA  (Reuters) – Colombia and the Marxist ELN rebel group said yesterday they agreed a temporary ceasefire that would run through mid-January 2018, but it would not be in effect when Pope Francis arrives in the Andean country for a visit later this week.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-led congress leaders met yesterday with French President Emmanuel Macron to press for humanitarian aid to their crisis-hit nation, on the first leg of a European tour seeking support against President Nicolas Maduro.

(Trinidad Express) An elderly woman was found murdered in her home at Chaguanas today.

(Trinidad Guardian) The people of Trinidad and Tobago have become quitters and cowards and it is high time now that they take back the country from the hands of criminals.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Tensions over sharp differences in pay between Mexican workers and their Canadian and U.S.

CONCEPCION DE BUENOS AIRES, Mexico  (Reuters) – The recipe for a record-breaking guacamole?

(Trinidad Guardian) Former director of the National Museum and Art Gallery and well known patriot, Dr Claire Broadbridge, 80, was found brutally murdered at her St Ann’s home last evening.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Human rights activist Lilian Tintori, the wife of Venezuela’s best-known detained political leader, said on Saturday she had been barred from flying out of the country and summoned to a court hearing over cash found in her vehicle.

(Trinidad Guardian) “I have no doubt justice will prevail in this matter and I will emerge victorious,” former People’s Partnership (PP) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan told reporters following his first court appearence yesterday on charges of misbehaviour in public office and obstruction of justice.