Regional News

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Parliament and society are interested in the details on the contract the government signed last year with a Chinese housing firm.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another bloody weekend in T&T leaves six dead in 24 hours.

(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica — A Guyanese woman accused of attempting to export approximately seven pounds of ganja to Curacao is to reappear in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s court today for sentencing.

(Jamaica Observer) Last year, Jamaica exported more yam than traditional agricultural exports combined.

(Trinidad Express) Chikungunya, commonly known as CHIKV, has entered 26 Caribbean countries and “it is spreading at one country per week”, Dr James Hospedales, executive director of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another bloody weekend in T&T leaves six dead in 24 hours.

(Trinidad Express) Several high-powered rifles are among the cache of 359 guns that have either been smuggled into Trinidad and Tobago along its coastal boarders or were locally built by cold-blooded killers over the last six months.

Three persons were killed in St Kitts-Nevis today in what police said seemed to have been targeted killings.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to help revive Cuba’s struggling offshore oil exploration yesterday at the start of a six-day tour of Latin America as Russia aims to reassert its influence on the communist-ruled island.

(Jamaica Gleaner) ALUMINIUM GIANT UC Rusal says it is seeking the Jamaican Government’s “support” to reopen the Kirkvine and Alpart plants, but Mining and Energy Minister Phillip Paulwell said he has lost patience with the Russian company and has signalled that he is prepared to go even further to revoke its licences for mining at Ewarton.

(Trinidad Express) Two weeks after losing his home and business in a court battle with relatives, a terminally ill cancer patient set fire to two properties yesterday, before driving to Mosquito Creek, La Romaine, where he shot and killed his wife, then himself in a suspected suicide pact.

(Trinidad Express) Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Labour and former trade unionist Errol McLeod is seeking to have Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke sent to jail.

(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines (CAL) is projecting a loss of just under TT$100 million for its financial year 2013, Finance Minister Larry Howai has said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff said the Obama administration was not directly responsible for U.S.

SPRING, Texas, (Reuters) – A man accused of fatally shooting four children ages 4 to 14 and their parents after entering their suburban Houston home disguised as a FedEx delivery man while looking for his former wife was charged with capital murder yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Fire roared through the Richmond, St Michael district yesterday destroying four houses and damaging two as at least six people were displaced.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo is scheduled to be released from a U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s World Cup trouncing by Germany threw a bucket of cold water on a nation that was starting to feel good about hosting the tournament but the humiliating defeat is unlikely to be a game changer in October’s presidential election.

(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The Government of Jamai-ca and the Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) have signed off on an amendment to the company’s licence, to allow the Cabinet to manage the procurement pro-cess through the Electricity Sector Enterprise Team (ESET).

(Trinidad Express) With today marking 67 days since the murder of Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal, her relatives are questioning why no one has been arrested and charged with her death.