Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Minister of The Environment and Water Resources Ganga Singh yesterday afternoon announced that the water coming from the Caroni Water Treatment Plant, was now safe, according to World Health organisation Standards.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – There is no evidence that President Cristina Fernandez tried to whitewash Iran’s purported involvement in a deadly 1994 bombing, an Argentine judge told Reuters in an interview yesterday after dismissing the case.

(Trinidad Express) THE Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) on Tuesday night shut down its Caroni Water Treatment Plant after an oily sheen was seen in the water.

HAVANA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba would agree to restore diplomatic relations with the United States in time for the April Summit of the Americas if Washington quickly and convincingly removes the Caribbean country from a list of state sponsors of terrorism, a senior Cuban official said yesterday.

SAN CRISTOBAL, Ve-nezuela, (Reuters) – Sporadic protests flared in different parts of Ven-ezuela yesterday, a day after a policeman shot dead a teenager during a demonstration against President Nicolas Maduro’s government in the volatile city of San Cristobal.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The much anticipated amendment to the Dangerous Drugs Act was passed in the House of Representatives yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) On the night of May 4, 2014, when senior counsel Dana Seetahal was shot dead, the killer who came almost face to face with her used a Galil rifle.

(Trinidad Express) The time has come for Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela to move from simply being “good neighbours” to becoming “good sisters and brothers”, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) has recorded major losses for financial year 2014.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s meager hotel offerings got a major boost yesterday with the inauguration of a brand new Marriott in the heart of the capital, the latest in a series of modern additions to the impoverished Caribbean island’s hospitality sector.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba President Raul Castro yesterday pinned medals on five spies, declaring them national heroes for infiltrating right-wing exile groups that plotted against Havana and for then enduring long prison terms in the United States.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The Brazilian judge presiding over criminal proceedings against charismatic entrepreneur Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest man, was seen yesterday driving a Porsche belonging to the fallen tycoon that had been seized by the court.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Computers manufactured by Lenovo, a Chinese firm, contain secret software which make the devices vulnerable to cyber attacks and even espionage by outside parties.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian states and cities are scrambling to raise taxes and cut spending after years of excesses, nudging an already weak national economy closer to recession.

(Trinidad Express) – The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) yesterday advised caution in the reporting on the progress of the investigation into the murder of attorney Dana Seetahal.

(Jamaica Observer) – Thirty-six-year-old Alicia Prince yesterday collapsed and died on Sunday while participating in the annual Sagicor Sigma Corporate Run.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is expected to arrive in T&T tomorrow to hold high-level bilateral talks with Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine. The

(Barbados Nation) CASTRIES – Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr Kenny D.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Wildrick Guerrier, a refugee from the devastation of the 2010 Haitian earthquake, died in a Haitian jail in 2011, 10 days after the United States revoked his temporary permission to stay in the country and deported him and 26 other men.

LONDON, (Reuters) – A new criminal offence should be introduced to clamp down on tax evasion, a senior figure in Britain’s finance ministry said yesterday in the wake of a scandal surrounding HSBC.