Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Trinidad conglomerate ANSA McAl is taking its fight for control of Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) back to court.

SYDNEY/TORONTO, (Reuters) – A deadly mud slide at an iron ore mine in Brazil has reignited calls for safer ways to dispose of millions of tonnes of ore waste held back by man-made dams.

(Trinidad Guardian) A discussion is currently taking place with the Attorney General on revisiting or changing the current situation of free, unrestricted/unhindered entry of T&T nationals who have joined the Islamic State (ISIS), National Security Minister Edmund Dillon confirmed yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Fearing the worst after finding his son-in-law hanging behind his home, it was a bitter sweet moment for Purnanand Bhim when he opened his daughter’s car and found his three-year-old granddaughter clutching her mother’s bloodied body yesterday morning.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC-Three former presidents of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) have condemned the decision by the Dave Cameron led WICB to ignore a request for an urgent meeting with Caricom leaders.

(Barbados Nation) The court’s decision to “take itself out of” the bidding war for Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) has opened the door for a higher offer from Brazilian company AmBev.

(Barbados Nation) Michael Kenan Blackett appeared before Magistrate Graveney Bannister yesterday in the District “A” Magistrates Court charged in connection with three murders and two counts of wounding with intent.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Two men said to be relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro held in the United States on cocaine smuggling charges were “kidnapped,” a senior member of the ruling Socialist Party said yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided yesterday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.

(Trinidad Guardian) There are now 89 T&T nationals—including families—known to Government who have joined the Islamic State of Iraq (Isis) in the last three plus years, T&T Guardian has confirmed.

RIO DOCE, Brazil, (Reuters) – The collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine has cut off drinking water for quarter of a million people and saturated waterways downstream with dense orange sediment that could wreck the ecosystem for years to come.

PENAS BLANCAS, Nicaragua, (Reuters) – Nicaragua yesterday closed its border with Costa Rica to hundreds of Cubans headed for the United States, stoking diplomatic tensions over a growing wave of migrants making the journey north from the Communist-ruled island.

(Trinidad Guardian) The half-a-billion United States dollars injected into the system by the Central Bank to ease the currency crisis in the country has already been used up by the business community.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A total of 53 illegal immigrants were detained on Friday as a joint task force swooped down on known hideouts along the East/West corridor.

PASO CANOAS, Costa Rica (Reuters) – To cheers from a large crowd of Cuban migrants, Costa Rica yesterday re-opened its border with Panama after a sudden tightening in its immigration policy had left more than 1,200 of them stranded there.

MARIANA, Brazil, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff yesterday announced preliminary fines worth 250 million reais ($66.2 million) against a mine in southeastern Brazil where two dams burst, killing at least seven people and coating a two-state area with mud and mine waste.

NEW YORK/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Two of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s relatives have been indicted in the United States for cocaine smuggling, according to court papers yesterday, following an international sting that Venezuela cast as an “imperialist” attack.

MILWAUKEE, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. presidential contenders attacked Donald Trump’s views on Syria and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as simplistic and unrealistic, and rival Jeb Bush said the real estate mogul did not grasp “how the real world works.”

TORONTO, (Reuters) – Trinidad-born author Andre Alexis on Tuesday won Canada’s Giller Prize, the country’s richest fiction award, for his novel “Fifteen Dogs”, about a group of animals at a Toronto veterinary clinic who gain human consciousness and language.

(Barbados Nation) A mere five per cent. That’s the extent of the tariff Government is prepared to levy on imported cement in the future.