Regional News

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The president of Brazil’s Senate said yesterday that attempting to impeach President Dilma Rousseff was not a priority and warned that seeking her removal in Congress would “set the country on fire.”

(Trinidad Guardian) Businessman Derek Chin, owner of the MovieTowne franchise and Dachin Company Ltd, yesterday denied that he had pulled away from the stalled billion-dollar Invaders Bay Development project.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadian Prime Minister Freundel Stuart met today with Jorge Arreaza, Vice President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

(Trinidad Express) Businesswoman Mary Ramlogan yesterday staged a protest outside the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) to highlight the unavailability of foreign currency, which is creating a negative impact on her business.

(Trinidad Express) Express Investigative Reporter Anika Gumbs resigned yesterday stating that she was “mentally scarred” and “traumatised” by “an unfortunate experience” with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Surinamese national Edmund Quin­cy Muntslag, who was wanted in the United States, was extradited to that country from Trinidad and Tobago yesterday, to face char­ges of narcotics trafficking.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s two top news entities are to combine their media operations to create the most powerful multimedia entity in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Express) The thrust to make cocoa king again has taken a new direction with the official launch of Trinidad and Tobago’s first cocoa-processing facility, the Trinidad and Tobago Fine Cocoa Company Ltd Factory.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor, who has put dozens of politicians under investigation for allegedly taking bribes in the Petrobras corruption scandal, has won the backing of his peers to stay on the job for two more years.

(Trinidad Express) Ten charges, including that of murdering PC Sherman Maynard during a daring midday prison break in Port of Spain on July 24, were read to prison escapee Christopher “Monster” Selby when he appeared in the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Jamaica Observer) – A 30-year-old married man who was caught by the police kissing a 13-year-old schoolgirl in an abandoned building in downtown Kingston, and making plans to have sex was yesterday slapped with a J$150,000 fine when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) A class-action suit has been filed against the manufacturers of Red Stripe beer in the United States, for allegedly deceiving consumers into thinking the beverage is made in Jamaica.

CURITIBA, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday arrested former government minister Jose Dirceu, one of the most senior members of the ruling Workers’ Party to be detained so far in a corruption scandal engulfing state-run oil company Petrobras.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The Brazilian government plans to use drones to strengthen its fight against slave labour in rural areas, the Labour Ministry has said.

(Trinidad Express) Four schemes of fraud and bribery against corruption accused Jack Warner are outlined in the extradition file from the United States now in the hands of Attorney General Garvin Nicholas.

(Reuters) – NAACP leaders launched a 40-day march across the US South yesterday with a rally in Selma, Alabama, drawing on that city’s significance in the 1960s civil rights movement to call attention to the issue of racial injustice in modern America.

LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) – Three members of former al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s family were killed when a private jet crashed in southern England on Friday, British police said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) SEVEN prison officers, including a member of the Prison Service executive, are facing suspension following last week Friday’s jailbreak in Port of Spain.

(Jamaica Observer) Last week Thursday, on July 23rd, Jamaica raised a mammoth US$2 billion on the international capital market through the issue of two new Eurobonds.

The government of Jamaica announced yesterday the launch of the country’s first electronic procurement platform, which will improve the efficiency and quality of public procurement, a release from the IDB said.