Regional News

ROME, (Reuters) – – Pope Francis has called for more regulation of financial markets and rejected suggestions that his criticisms of unbridled capitalism smack of Marxism.

(Barbados Nation) Ninety Nigerian students are to be quarantined after one of them tested positive for scabies, a contagious skin infection.

(Trinidad Express) – The final moments of 19-year-old Shabana Mohammed were spent gasping for air, face down on the ground, after she had been violently strangled.

(Barbados Nation) – Low oil prices and an improving world economy could have the airline industry smiling all the way to the bank.

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Five years after a massive earthquake rocked Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and reducing homes to rubble, few survivors would say they were traumatised or suffering depression as a result of the disaster.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police sergeant Dane Sorzano who appeared in the Siparia Magistrates Court yesterday on rape charges was placed in the holding cell with other prisoners after the magistrate expressed concern that he was being shown favourable treatment.

(Trinidad Express) The final moments of 19-year-old Shabana Mohammed were spent gasping for air, face down on the ground, after she had been violently strangled.

(Trinidad Express) A TT$7.4 billion shortfall is what Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday night identified as a result of falling oil prices.

On the fifth anniversary of the earthquake that killed an estimated 217,000 Haitians, the International Organisation for migration (IOM) has released its latest Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM), which shows that although 94 per cent of the internally displaced persons have left camps and other temporary sites, almost 80,000 remain displaced.

(Trinidad Express) A TT$7.4 billion shortfall is what Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar last night identified as a result of falling oil prices.

St. Kitts and Nevis is continuing its drive towards becoming the world’s first sustainable island state with the start of construction of a second solar farm.

(Jamaica Observer) Highly skilled and qualified Jamaicans are being urged to take advantage of Canada’s new Express Entry immigration management system which was launched at the start of the year and aims to attract 181,000 new economic immigrants.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Despite a series of interventions by local authorities, Jamaicans, including students, applying for visas to enter the United Kingdom are likely to be barred by a Home Office visa clampdown in the United Kingdom.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A White House official yesterday denied that the Cuban government was resisting freeing some of the 53 people listed for release as part of a thaw in U.S.-Cuba

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba has freed some of 53 people the United States regards as political prisoners, as agreed under last month’s U.S.-Cuban

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI) yesterday called on Government to explain the process by which TT$55 million was given as a gift to Christian Churches during the Christmas of 2014.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have charged two sixteen year old boys in relation to the New Year’s Eve murder of 79-year-old Hyacinth Hayden at her Green Park home in Trelawny.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A vicious Mexican drug gang forced some members to eat the hearts of murder victims as part of a gruesome initiation rite to root out infiltrators, a government security official said on Tuesday, citing witness testimony.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan fast-food lovers are mourning the disappearance of McDonald’s golden staple: the french fry.

(Trinidad Express) President of the Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) Gregory Aboud said yesterday while the National Security Minister seems to have the right intentions, he must admit that the crime situation is getting out of control.