Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Former Chief Justice and former president of the Caribbean Court of Justice Michael de la Bastide says it will be a pity if all confidence in the CCJ is allowed to slip away.

(Trinidad Express) A Barrackpore mother, who gave life to her son by donating a kidney four years ago, died along with the child and her husband in an accident yesterday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is “deeply disappointed” the Netherlands released a former Venezuelan military intelligence chief detained over US drug trafficking allegations, and is “disturbed” at reports indicating Caracas used threats to obtain his freedom, the State Department said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The former acting registrar at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) is calling on Caricom heads of government to investigate and fix the problems at the regional court.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan military intelligence head detained on the Caribbean island of Aruba over U.S

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Morgan Wienberg, a slight 22-year-old from Canada, was only 18 when she joined the wave of volunteers who flew to Haiti to help out after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010.

(Trinidad Express) He was paid TT$34 million from LifeSport but did no work.

DAKAR, (Reuters) – The wife of Cameroon’s vice prime minister was kidnapped and at least three people killed in an attack by Boko Haram militants on the vice prime minister’s home in the northern town of Kolofata on Sunday, Cameroon’s information minister and government spokesman told Reuters.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling Socialist Party began a six-day congress yesterday with President Nicolas Maduro seeking to quieten hardliners who believe the state is failing to stem corruption or fix the economy.

(Trinidad Express) LifeSport, the brainchild and baby of Sport Minister Anil Roberts, has been laid to rest.

(Barbados Nation) Former Prime Minister Owen Arthur handed in his resignation to the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) yesterday, but will be serving out the rest of his parliamentary term as an independent representative.

(Trinidad Express) President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Sir Dennis Byron breached procedure when he suspended the Court’s financial comptroller last month, a disciplinary tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) The audit into the LifeSport programme has unearthed enough evidence to warrant a probe by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).

CARACAS/MIAMI, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former military intelligence chief, accused of involvement in drug trafficking by the United States, was arrested on a Caribbean island while on diplomatic business, the South American country said in a sternly worded statement yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has advised that former tourism minister Chandresh Sharma not be charged in a matter involving a complaint by his former girlfriend, Sacha Singh, that he had assaulted her.

(Reuters) – Momentum is building toward a deal that would make painful losses inevitable for investors holding about $20 billion in bonds issued by Puerto Rico’s highway, water and electricity authorities even as some big U.S.

(Reuters) – The second tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season is expected to approach the Leewards and Windwards tonight, the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan soldiers and officials began moving hundreds of families yesterday out of a half-built 45-story skyscraper that dominates the Caracas skyline and is thought to be the world’s tallest slum.

KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – As Western leaders increasingly pointed the finger of blame at pro-Russian separatists, and Moscow itself, over the shooting down of a Malaysia Airlines plane in eastern Ukraine, the government in Kuala Lumpur said little.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba has prosecuted and is likely to send Canadian businessman Cy Tokmakjian to prison after he denounced corruption in the Havana government’s awarding of contracts, his company said yesterday.