Regional News

(Gleaner) – A teacher who succumbed to his injuries after being shot in Bushy Park, Clarendon, on Saturday night, reportedly named his alleged killer—a policeman—before his death.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti delayed the start of Carnival celebrations yesterday because of fears of violence from anti-government protesters as President Michel Martelly ended his term with nobody elected to replace him.

NEW YORK/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Experts on microcephaly, the birth defect that has sparked alarm in the current Zika virus outbreak, say they are struck by the severity of a small number of cases they have reviewed from Brazil.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s outgoing President Michel Martelly has reached an agreement with parliament to form a caretaker government when he leaves power today without an elected successor, in a step that could calm violent protests rocking the capital.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Two cases of Zika being transmitted through blood transfusions were reported in Brazil yesterday, adding to concerns over the virus that has been linked to severe birth defects and is typically spread through mosquito bites.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday he will ask the U.S.

LIMA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Peru has become the latest commodity exporter to seek financing help from the World Bank amid fiscal and currency pressures brought on by collapsing prices for metals, oil and other raw materials.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Construction worker Roberto Miguez has been lying in a hospital bed with Guillain-Barre syndrome in Venezuela’s muggy Anzoategui state since Friday as his family desperately hunts for immunoglobulin to treat the condition.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Cascade man was gunned down while his wife was fighting for her life at hospital last night, having been beaten with a brick and chopped by the men who killed her husband.

(Jamaica Observer) The mistrial application filed on behalf of former Turks and Caicos Island (TCI) Premier Michael Misick was on Tuesday dismissed by High Court Judge Justice Paul Harrison.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Cascade man was gunned down while his wife was fighting for her life at hospital last night, having been beaten with a brick and chopped by the men who killed her husband.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Two former cabinet ministers under late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez are seeking an investigation to trace the fate of some $300 billion allegedly embezzled during the past decade through a complex currency control system.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Government has announced an ambitious J$1.6 billion programme which will see 1,200 scholarships being given to mathematics and science teachers by 2021.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s opposition yesterday rejected a proposal by outgoing President Michel Martelly to form a temporary government to organize elections, after a run-off presidential vote was canceled last month amid violence and allegations of fraud.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top health official said yesterday that the Zika virus outbreak is proving to be worse than believed because most cases show no symptoms, but improved testing should allow the country to get a better grip on the burgeoning public health crisis.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government is likely underestimating the number of Zika cases in Venezuela, which could hurt efforts to combat the virus-bearing mosquito, according to local doctors, opposition politicians and neighbouring Colombia.

(Trinidad Guardian) Apart from the fact the Zika virus can be spread by an Aedes aegypti mosquito, scientists have discovered two cases of the virus in semen, including one case where it was sexually transmitted.

RECIFE, Brazil, (Reuters) – For scores of women in the epicenter of the Zika outbreak in Brazil, the joy of pregnancy has given way to fear.

DES MOINES, Iowa/ COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa, (Reuters) – Republi-cans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battled yesterday to persuade their supporters to turn out and tried to lower expectations on how well they will do in the first U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government will pump TT$400 million into restoration work on the controversial Red House project by the end of March.