Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 38-year-old man was murdered and another injured in a shooting at KFC’s St Helena outlet on Saturday night.

WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT, (Reuters) – Officials across the globe scrambled over the weekend to catch the culprits behind a massive ransomware worm that disrupted operations at car factories, hospitals, shops and schools, while Microsoft yesterday pinned blame on the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Massy Group chairman Robert Bermudez has said after the sale of Massy Communica­tions to majority State-owned TSTT, the com­pany “will exit the telecommunications in-dustry, avoiding further losses from this business and signifi­cant capital expen­di­ture which would be re­quired to build out a complete fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network”.

(Trinidad Express) The Govern-ment has hit a bump in its move to acquire CLICO’s shareholding of Home Construction Ltd (HCL).

BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken has launched a non-alcoholic version of its namesake beer with the aim of becoming the global leader in a part of the market growing faster than the average.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela-born fashion designer Carolina Herrera yesterday lamented the killing of her nephew in the crisis-torn country, in what authorities called an apparent kidnapping.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Nene Constantino Oliveira, patriarch of the family that created Brazilian airline Gol , has been found guilty of homicide in connection with the 2001 murder of an activist who led a group of squatters occupying land owned by the family, a court in Brasilia said on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A father who was leading a fund raising drive to save his daughter’s life was murdered outside his Diego Martin home on Thursday night.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s combative testimony before a federal judge this week did little to dismantle the graft case against him and improve his chances of securing a new term in office.

In an address to the nation on Tuesday night, St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Dr.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe a love affair gone sour led to the murder of a woman and the suicide of her lover in Bristol Village, Mayaro, on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – CIA Director Mike Pompeo said yesterday there are large caches of weapons in Venezuela and a risk of them falling into the wrong hands as the country grapples with economic crisis and street protests.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police believe a love affair gone sour led to the murder of a woman and the suicide of her lover in Bristol Village, Mayaro, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Marcia Ayers-Caesar now stands accused of misleading Chief Justice Ivor Archie and members of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission (JLSC) and will not be returning to the bench of the Magistrates’ Court any time soon.

NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Activists yesterday urged U.S. authorities to extend a special immigration status for 50,000 refugees from earthquake-hit Haiti, fearing they may be thrown out of the United States.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Contractor General Dirk Harrison has chided both the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People’s National Party (PNP) for what he describes as the failure to ensure maximum value and respect for taxpayers’ money.

(Jamaica Observer) A special task force to inform the Tourism Ministry on using cannabis-enthused tourism for the promotion of the sector, is to be established.

(Trinidad Express) Murder victim Darren Dinanath was a Hindu pundit and millionaire businessman who had a penchant for designer clothing and jewellery.

(Barbados Nation) Government’s fiscal deficit is still too high and this means Barbadians will have to tighten their belts some more.

(Trinidad Express) Former Head of the Public Service, Reginald Dumas, said yesterday he was pleased “for the citizens of the country” that the Privy Council has handed down a ruling which clears the way for any citizen who is “serious about things” to challenge the actions of the President and the Parliament if they believed those actions to be unconstitutional.