Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Saturday gave a sneak peek at the national budget which is expected to be read by Finance Minister Larry Howai today.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Anand Ramlogan has consented to e-mail service provider Google Inc releasing all information from his personal e-mail account to the Integrity Commission as the probe into the Emailgate scandal continues.

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) Caretaker for St Thomas Eastern, Delano Seiveright, says that there is a major outbreak of chikungunya in the constituency Seiveright, Sunday called on the Ministry of Health to stop understating the impact of the disease and immediately lead a multi-stakeholder drive to limit the spread of the mosquito-borne virus.

KINGSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers were searching yesterday for the wreckage of a small US private plane that crashed off the east coast of Jamaica, after the Jamaican military said debris from the aircraft had likely been spotted.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reu-ters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff and environmentalist Marina Silva would be tied in the first round of elections on Oct 5, a poll suggested yesterday, as a meteoric rise in support for Silva showed signs of plateauing.

(Trinidad Express) Principal Medical Officer of Environmental Health at the Ministry of Health (MoH) Dr Clive Tiluckdharry said 43 people have contracted ChikV, which is spread by the dreaded Aedes Aegypti mosquito.

(Jamaica Observer) Christopher Zacca, president of the powerful Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), on Thursday night urged Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller to shuffle her Cabinet.

(Trinidad Guardian) Rita Cabrera, 61, was so sick she could not even walk or dress herself.

(Trinidad Express) Some police officers are expected to be outfitted with body cameras beginning later this month, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams said on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Some police officers are expected to be outfitted with body cameras beginning later this month, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Willi­ams said yesterday.

(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — United States-based pathologist Dr Michael Baden says that preliminary results from Tuesday’s autopsy of the body of Mario Deane, who was beaten while in police custody in August, proved that he died from a rain of blows to his head and brain, consistent with punches.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday pushed Rafael Ramirez from his twin posts as oil minister and a chief of state oil firm PDVSA in a cabinet shake-up that opposition critics said fell short of the overhaul needed to reverse the OPEC nation’s economic decline.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday pushed Rafael Ramirez from his twin posts as oil minister and a chief of state oil firm PDVSA in a cabinet shake-up that opposition critics said fell short of the overhaul needed to reverse the OPEC nation’s economic decline.

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(Trinidad Express) Colourful floats, elaborate costumes, politicians and merrymakers filled the streets yesterday for the annual West Indian Day Parade, a Caribbean celebration and political see-and-be-seen event that was marred by a fatal shooting nearby before the official festivities got under way.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Popular environmentalist Marina Silva looks capable of winning Brazil’s presidential election in October but a major campaign gaffe and mounting attacks from other candidates and the media suggest the race is still wide open.

(Trinidad Express) President Anthony Carmona has weighed in on the controversial Constitution (Amendment) Bill, 2014, saying yesterday that “forays” into reform were to be expected from a young nation, but there was no room for “bull-headed partisanship”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mobile operator Digicel is applying for a subscription broadcasting service via a telecommunications network, which is believed to be a cable licence, according to a Telecommuni-cations Authority of T&T (TATT) notice dated August 18 posted to its Web site during the week ending August 29.

(Trinidad Express) Port of Spain-Six individuals are being investigated in relation to the US$100 million cocaine bust in the United States in December where the drug was hidden in juice cans which carried local labels.

(Trinidad Guardian) The family of murdered Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal will not be collecting her Chaconia Medal (Gold) at the National Awards function at Queen’s Hall, St Ann’s, this evening. Seetahal