Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Two schools in Port-of-Spain have been shut down because of several confirmed cases of the chikungunya virus.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley will be a key subject in a commission of enquiry ordered by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday to investigate the Las Alturas housing project in Morvant.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan cartoonist said she was fired from her newspaper for a caricature that used the late socialist leader Hugo Chavez’s signature to satirize the state of healthcare.

(Trinidad Express) – A six-year-old boy was allegedly sodomised by a teenager at a day care centre in Central Trinidad on Tuesday.

(Barbados Nation) The 90 Nigerian students coming to study in Barbados will be given the specific Ebola virus disease (EVD) test before leaving, to allay Barbadian fears about any possibility of their bringing the deadly disease here.

(Barbados Nation) The 90 Nigerian students coming to study in Barbados will be given the specific Ebola virus disease (EVD) test before leaving, to allay Barbadian fears about any possibility of their bringing the deadly disease here.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Buses across jungle borders, boats through Caribbean waters and private flights from small airfields have become a new norm for departing Venezuela as a multi-billion dollar pay dispute turns the country into something of a ‘no-fly’ zone.

(Jamaica Observer) JAMAICA has been listed as one of 22 major drug-producing and transit countries by US President Barack Obama, according to information released Monday by the US Department of State.

(Barbados Nation) has announced the completion a major Caribbean acquisition its management expects to help it transform from “a pure mobile provider” to “a global complete communications provider”.

( de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The number people infected with the chikungunya virus is far greater than official figures by the Bureau for Public Health (BOG) report.

(Trinidad Express) Let’s fix this now, Chief Justice Ivor Archie said yesterday as he outlined the problems facing the judiciary.

BELO HORIZONTE/SAO PAULO, Brazil (Reuters) – The handsome, accomplished grandson of one of Brazil’s most beloved politicians, Aecio Neves has been preparing his whole life to be president, friends say.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Leftist guerrillas in northeastern Colombia killed two contractors working on a pipeline for the state oil company, Ecopetrol, military sources said yesterday.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff is running almost even with her main rival, Marina Silva, in a likely second-round runoff in the October presidential election, a poll published yesterday showed.

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The debut of a livery car service providing women drivers for female passengers in the New York City area has stalled over lack of a sufficient number of drivers, the founder of the service said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican authorities have blocked the importation of electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes with liquid cartridges or replacement liquid cartridges.

KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — Jamaica’s Protected Disclosures Act is regarded as one the best whistleblowing legislations enacted in countries globally, by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

(Trinidad Express) The energy assets of CL Financial (CLF) have almost been sold out for small sums.

(Trinidad Express) Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas has called on radio station hosts to stop talking about race and ethinicity on the airwaves.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina will pay holders of its restructured sovereign debt thanks to a bill passed by its Congress last week despite a U.S.