Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) – A five-month-old baby girl survived a close brush with death on Sunday, narrowly escaping gunfire from armed men engaged in what police are calling a turf war in east Port of Spain.

VIENNA (Reuters) – Cultivation of coca bushes in Bolivia fell around 9 per cent last year to its lowest level since 2002, an annual survey in the world’s biggest cocaine producer after Peru and Colombia showed.

GENEVA (Reuters) – The polio virus has been found in sewage samples near Sao Paulo, one of the venues for the soccer World Cup in Brazil, but no human case of the disease has been reported so far, the World Health Organization said yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Delta Airlines is back. The news that the North American airline was resuming flights to Barbados in December was revealed during a press conference yesterday morning held by the Barbados Tourism Authority at the Courtyard by Mariott hotel.

(Trinidad Express) Petrina Salandy, 39, was walking home holding her five-month-old baby, Kayla, in her arms with three of her other children in tow when snipers hidden in the nearby hills decided to open fire in Port of Spain yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) Peter Tosh never hid his love for ganja. He wrote several songs about its spiritual powers and was a passionate advocate for its legalisation.

(Trinidad Express) Wealthy Qatari Mohamed bin Hammam and his nine-member delegation quite literally walked straight through Immigration and Customs to the VIP lounge of Piarco International Airport before being whisked away in an executive ride to the Hyatt Regency (Trinidad) Hotel  on the morning of May 9, 2011 with a suitcase full of bribe money.

(Trinidad Guardian) With the murder toll now at 200, 23 more than the corresponding period for last year, police are saying the “solution rate” is on the upswing, with people having been charged in 26 cases.

(Barbados Nation) Shanique Myrie was due to receive her money yesterday, ending the saga of the Jamaican being refused entry into this country three years ago.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reu-ters) – Central American leaders yesterday pressed visiting U.S.

(Barbados Nation) A former REDjet airline director admits that the carrier’s management made some mistakes, but he insists that sabotage played a role in the airline’s demise.

(Trinidad Express) The teenager who claims he was burnt about his body by police officers while in custody at the Princes Town Police Station intends to sue the State.

(Trinidad Express) One year after President Anthony Carmona called on Parliament to “bite the bullet” and address the issue of campaign finance, the Senate on Tuesday unanimously approved a resolution calling for the appointment of a Joint Select Committee (JSC) to propose legislation governing the financing of election campaigns.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former planning minister, who helped the late president Hugo Chavez forge the country’s state-driven economic model, has excoriated current president Nicholas Maduro as a weak leader who is straying from socialism, according to a widely circulated document.

(Jamaica Observer) FullGram International, a Kingston-based call centre, has secured a US$20 million (J$2.2 billion) contract with US-based Education Source.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian government plans to conduct tests over the next two months on the use of a higher percentage of ethanol in commercial gasoline, a government source told Reuters yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Ten years after stabbing his wife to death at a maxi-stand in Princes Town, Shawn Marcelline was yesterday found guilty of her killing.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Congress of the People (COP) ministers in the Kamla Persad-Bissessar Cabinet, Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan and Lincoln Douglas, have said the Prime Minister has disrespected the party by retaining Sport Minister Anil Roberts. After

(Trinidad Express) The report into the Caesarean-section death of baby Simeon  is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for immediate investigation, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said on Monday.

(Barbados Nation) SHANIQUE MYRIE should get the money awarded her by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) this week.