Regional News

Kick ‘em Jenny, an active submarine volcano approximately 8km off the north coast of Grenada has triggered an orange alert level in parts of the Caribbean after significant seismic activity.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – An independent Mexican commission said yesterday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election campaign is unnerving investors with his silence over the country’s notoriously inaccurate inflation reporting, while the second place candidate says data transparency would be a top priority.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House said yesterday it was in the final stages of drafting a plan to close the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Muslim leaders were released from the Central Police Station, Port-of-Spain early yesterday afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Effective August 17, financial institutions in Jamaica will be required to transmit relevant financial information to Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) – the competent authority – on persons who reside permanently in the United States (US) or persons who earn a substantial amount of their income from or within the United States.

(Trinidad Express) Insurrectionist Yasin Abu Bakr and eight other members of the Jamaat-al-Muslimeen spent a second night under police guard at various police stations throughout the country last night as investigators continue their enquiries into the murder of senior counsel Dana Seetahal.

(Jamaica Observer) Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce Anthony Hylton last Friday welcomed the introduction of Federal Transformer Manufacturing and Consulting Limited (FTMC) into the local manufacturing sector.

(Reuters) – Colombia, South America’s third-largest economy, has pledged to reduce carbon emissions by at least 20 percent by 2030 as a contribution to a new agreement aimed at fighting global warming, the government said on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan has apologised to the Chinese community for statements he made in response to a video of a Chinese national butchering a dog in Trinidad.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday it had arrested two former military officers on drug charges including one man linked by the government to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and wanted by the United States.

(Trinidad Express) Police yesterday executed an early morning surprise swoop on insurrectionist Yasin Abu Bakr and detained him as well as ten other people for questioning in connection with the murder of senior counsel Dana Seetahal.

VALPARAISO, Chile (Reuters) – President Michelle Bachelet’s push to relax strict abortion laws in socially conservative Chile has created a rift inside her ruling coalition and key elements of the reform are likely to be scratched.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Three executives of Brazil’s Camargo Correa group were convicted yesterday of money laundering, corruption and other charges, the first construction-industry executives to be sentenced in a giant price fixing and bribery scandal involving state-run oil company Petrobras.

LIMA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors plan to visit Brazil this month to gather evidence of bribery on a transcontinental highway project, Peru’s attorney general said in an interview, adding to regional fallout from the biggest corruption scandal in Brazil’s history.

(Barbados Nation) Inadequate building standards here could lead to thousands being killed or seriously injured if a major earthquake or hurricane struck the island.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chinese restaurant owners fear that untold damage has been done to their businesses in the aftermath of a video showing Chinese nationals skinning a dog and Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan’s statements allegedly equating the reduction of the stray dog population to dog meat being served up to diners at Chinese restaurants.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) — Twenty-one children were detained by the police during a series of operations in the St Andrew South Police Division between late Friday and early yesterday.

MONTEGO BAY, St James (Observer) — Security Minister Peter Bunting rushed to St James on Friday for a hastily arranged tour following a bloody 24 hours in the crime-hit parish during which six people were shot and killed.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The speaker of Brazil’s lower house of Congress broke with the government of President Dilma Rousseff yesterday over corruption accusations, deepening a political crisis in Latin America’s largest economy.