Regional News

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Mexico yesterday conceded to U.S. demands for changes in the terms of Mexican access to the lucrative U.S.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United States denounced the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday for suppressing protests and called for free elections, saying that he must not be allowed to follow a “dictatorship” path like Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday received a comprehensive report on the operations at Petrotrin which includes recommendations for the restructuring of the wholly State-owned company.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top electoral court opens a trial today over the alleged use of illicit money to fund President Michel Temer’s 2014 election campaign in a case that could force him from office.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Two Venezuelan lawmakers said they were roughed up yesterday with one pushed into a manhole by soldiers blocking an opposition sit-in against President Nicolas Maduro, among chaotic scenes around Caracas.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s Finance Ministry has been asked to provide over $1.2 million in initial funding for the Marxist FARC rebel group’s new political party, the electoral commission said yesterday, as soon as the group finishes a weapons handover.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Organisation of American States (OAS) has failed to pass either of two resolutions on Venezuela as member countries fail to agree on the way forward.

(Jamaica Observer) Kelly Tomblin didn’t hesitate when she admitted that the greatest challenge she faced in her five years at Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) was electricity theft.In

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has rejected claims that Jamaican immigration, customs or security personnel searched a Trinidadian Minister of Government at the Norman Manley International Airport on Friday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) UN Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS to the Caribbean, Dr Edward Greene, has revealed that Jamaica and Cuba are among the two countries in the region which have seen major increases in HIV infections.

(Trinidad Express) A 17-year-old boy and a man were killed during a card game in Ste Madeleine yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was former chief of defence staff Kenrick Maharaj, “acting on his own volition”, who authorised Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi’s children to use the shooting range at Camp Cumuto where they were eventually photographed holding what appeared to be high-powered weapons.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Banging empty pots and brandishing signs saying “only the government is growing fatter,” Venezuelan activists in Caracas yesterday protested food shortages in the crisis-stricken country.

(Jamaica Observer) – The Ministry of Education on Friday stepped into the dispute at the Vauxhall High School in Kingston following criminal charges being laid against three teachers who allegedly trimmed a male student against his will.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Justice Ivor Archie was yesterday defiant and dismissive in his response in the face of an unprecedented vote of no confidence in him by the Law Association and calls for him to step down.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Law Association on Thursday night called on Chief Justice Ivor Archie to step down after passing historic no-confidence motions against the CJ and members of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) over its handling of the short-lived appointment of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Law Association last night called on Chief Justice Ivor Archie to step down after passing historic no-confidence motions against the CJ and members of the Judicial and Legal Services Commission (JLSC) over its handling of the short-lived appointment of former chief magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar.

(Trinidad Express) Joint police and army patrols have been increased in central Trinidad, in response to the murders last weekend of three business owners, says Minister of National Security Edmund Dillon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers yesterday raised concerns about the security in place at this country’s ports of entry, after they discovered three high-powered assault rifles – AK47s – in a barrel containing loose dog food at the El Socorro Bond area of Piarco Air Services.

(Trinidad Guardian) Law enforcement officers yesterday raised concerns about the security in place at this country’s ports of entry, after they discovered three high-powered assault rifles – AK47s – in a barrel containing loose dog food at the El Socorro Bond area of Piarco Air Services.