Regional News

BERLIN, (Reuters) – Paul Wolfowitz, a Republican adviser to former U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the Government is doing all in its power to curb crime.

 (Trinidad Express) There have been at least 420 homicides since the Peoples National Move-ment (PNM) won the general election eleven months ago.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A Chinese-Mexican businessman accused of drug trafficking could be handed over by U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has teamed up with several local and regional stakeholders to develop new response to the Zika virus as it threatens the tourism industry and sparks panic among pregnant women as medical studies are linking potential serious birth defects to newborn babies.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – The captain of the doomed El Faro cargo ship sounded an alarm for his crew to abandon the vessel shortly before it sank last fall in a hurricane near the Bahamas, killing all 33 onboard, the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two business communities are calling National Security Minister Edmund Dillon to fix crime in T&T first before sitting with ministers from across the region to deal with the matter.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – The promise that some oil traders and brokers saw for an expanded Panama Canal to become a new route for large tankers will take longer to realize than expected because many ships must first undergo inconvenient retrofits to transit through the new locks, shipping industry experts said.

(Trinidad Express) An appeal is being made by the police and the family of murdered nine year old Cyon Paul for the people who witnessed the gun play that resulted in the child’s death last Friday, to come forward and not allow the case to go cold and unsolved.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Thousands of Argentines stood in line for free fruit next to the Casa Rosada presidential palace yesterday, while growers handed out 10,000 kilos of produce as a way of protesting price distortions and double-digit inflation they say crushes profits.

(Trinidad Guardian) A video depicting known gang leaders, some of whom are in currently in jail, is engaging the attention of Criminal Gang and Intelligence Unit (CGIU) and the Strategic Services Agency — this country’s main surveillance unit, as they gather information on suspected criminals.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Southern Division police now believe nine-year-old Seon Paul was executed and not hit by a stray bullet as they initially believed.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s interior minister and former boss of the country’s anti-narcotics agency, General Nestor Reverol, hit back yesterday at accusations by a US federal court that he abetted cocaine trafficking.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Kicking off a six-day tour of Latin America, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said yesterday in Havana his visit would open a new chapter in the Islamic Republic’s relations with Communist-ruled Cuba.

(Reuters) – AT&T Inc, the No 2 US wireless carrier, said it had signed a deal with Cuba’s state-owned telecoms provider to offer direct roaming services to its customers visiting Cuba.

MANAGUA (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s election campaign kicked off yesterday, with President Daniel Ortega the clear favourite to sweep aside a weakened opposition and win a third consecutive term in a November 6 vote.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said the purge by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meted out on rivals after a failed coup would look like child’s play compared with the action he would take if opposition tried something similar in the OPEC nation.

BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Opposition lawmakers in Colombia have proposed a bill that aims to cut the use of mercury and other toxic chemicals in illegal gold mining, that has polluted rivers and blighted the ancestral lands of indigenous tribes.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – A Haitian Senate report has called for charges to be brought against two former prime ministers and several ministers for alleged embezzlement, abuse of authority and forgery stemming from the use of funds in a Venezuelan oil loan programme.

(Jamaica Observer) – President of Haiti-based Sunrise Airways Philippe Bayard reckons that the Haitian carrier will be operating flights to and from Jamaica by fall next year.