Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents in Windsor, St Ann’s Bay are expressing outrage after a young female was discovered chained in the cellar of the house occupied by her father and stepmother.

SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic announced yesterday the temporary closure of its consular missions in neighbouring Haiti due to “recurring attacks” posing a danger to diplomats and staff.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Archaeologists working in the dense jungle of Honduras have found dozens of artifacts at a site where they believe twin cities from an ancient civilization once thrived, the head of the country’s anthropology institute said on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) One day after Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar called on authorities to wrap up the investigation into emailgate, Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams has announced that multinational Internet service provider Google has provided the information that was sourced and the Police Service (TTPS) is analysing it.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top prosecutor asked the Federal Supreme Court yesterday to open investigations into politicians who allegedly benefited from a multibillion-dollar kickback scheme at state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA , a court official said yesterday.

WASHINGTON/MIAMI, (Reuters) – The White House has proposed turning Radio Marti, a U.S.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities detained a China-flagged ship traveling to Cuba for illegally transporting around 100 tonnes of gunpowder and other materials used to make explosives and arrested the captain, the attorney general’s office said.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday it would respond through diplomatic channels to Venezuela’s demand for a cut in U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate yesterday threw out a presidential decree that reduces payroll tax breaks for businesses, in a political setback for President Dilma Rousseff’s new fiscal austerity crusade.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday ordered the US embassy in Caracas to reduce staff from 100 to 17 amid the worst diplomatic flare-up between the two ideological foes since socialist President Nicolas Maduro was elected in 2013.

(Trinidad Express) Alive! Ten people on a fishing boat bound for Tobago who went missing on Friday afternoon, were found alive in Venezuelan waters yesterday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – The most important US agricultural delegation to visit Cuba in more than a decade began three days of meetings yesterday, hoping to find potential business partners and urge the US Congress to lift the trade embargo against the Caribbean nation.

MIAMI/HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is willing to restore diplomatic relations with the United States as soon as the Obama administration declares its intent to take the country off a list of state sponsors of terrorism, according to a senior Cuban official.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Eight policemen in Venezuela are to be charged after two young men were taken into custody then found shot dead in bushes, the country’s public prosecutor’s office said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Surinamese company, Assuria NV has acquired a second insurance company in Trinidad and Tobago. In

(Trinidad Guardian) Sheldon Henville, husband of Point Blank TV host Marcia Henville, has been charged with her murder and is expected to appear before a Tunapuna magistrate tomorrow. The

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police cracked down on striking truckers yesterday, arresting protesters and ending roadblocks in all but two states after demonstrations turned violent and slowed food deliveries in Latin America’s largest economy.

NEW YORK/MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Venezuela, once a proud exporter of premium coffee, has been reduced to swapping crude oil for growing volumes of Nicaraguan coffee beans to make sure worsening economic turmoil does not prevent people from getting their caffeine fix.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan military officers are questioning four American missionaries after they took part in a health initiative and distributed medicine in a coastal village, the head of a Venezuelan evangelical group said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Republic Bank has donated CDN$1 million (TT$5.3 million) to the Canadian Hospital for Sick Children to assist in the provision of treatment to children across the Caribbean.