Regional News

(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 yesterday.

  BRASILIA – Brazilian police arrested 14 people yesterday during an anti-World Cup demonstration near the stadium where Nigeria and Iran played in southern Brazil, local security authorities said.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan funeral homes are struggling to find coffins, with production crimped by a shortage of brass, varnish and satin, complicating the process of burying the dead in one of the world’s most murderous countries.

HAVANA (Reuters) – The resignation of two editors of an outspoken Roman Catholic Church magazine in Cuba threatens to stall what had been a thriving political dialogue inside Cuba and a rare forum to challenge the ruling Communist Party publicly.

(Jamaica Observer) A group of local contractors who say they are owed approximately J$1.5 billion for work completed for China Harbour since last year have asked Contractor General Dirk Harrison for help to resolve that and other issues that include their relationship with the National Works Agency (NWA).

(Barbados Nation) Not even the spirited pleas by two Queen’s Counsel could save Canadians Barry and Barbara Dueck from being remanded to HMP Dodds yesterday, after they appeared before the District “A” Magistrates’ Court on theft and money laundering charges worth nearly BDS$10 million.

(Trinidad Express)  Minister of National Security Gary Griffith said yesterday he wanted to clarify that the Cybercrime Bill, 2014 tabled in Parliament, Tower D, International Waterfront Centre, Port of Spain, on Friday is designed in no way to muzzle or control the operations of the media but rather to treat with harassment, cyber-bullying, damage to reputation and extortion via the use of a computer system.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — The end of alumina production in Suriname does not mean a disaster to the economy.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua ………”To God be the Glory. Today is the dawn of a new day,” were the words echoed by Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party Leader the Hon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Sports Minister Anil Roberts has told Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar he has never used drugs, including marijuana, during his tenure as minister and “never taken, used or experimented with illicit or illegal drugs or ever been involved in any form or fashion with prostitutes.”

(Trinidad Express) In a statement issued last night, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said Roberts, in a letter to her, “categorically denied using illicit drugs” during his tenure as Minister.

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – 13th June, 2014………”To God be the Glory.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombians pick a new president on Sunday in a tight runoff election fought over whether peace talks with leftist guerrillas or a renewed military offensive stand the best chance of ending 50 years of war in the Andean country.

TAMPA, Fla., (Reuters) – A painful, mosquito-borne viral illness has surfaced across the United States, carried by recent travelers to the Caribbean where the virus is raging.

AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, a Republican presidential aspirant whose 2012 campaign was sunk partly because of verbal slips, has compared homosexuality to alcoholism, coming under fire again for an argument he has made previously.

(Trinidad Express) In a bid to ensure compliance with private members clubs, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) has  obtained court orders against two such clubs.

(Trinidad Express) The use of body cameras for police officers is expected to be implemented officially in September.

(Trinidad Guardian) The autopsies of teenage cousins—Hakeem, 16, and Tevin Alexander, 15—disprove some eyewitness accounts that the boys were kneeling when they were shot by police. According

St Lucian Prime Minister Dr Kenny Anthony has told public sector unions that their members should take a 5% wage cut and agree to a series of other measures to aid the debt-wracked economy otherwise retrenchment would follow.

(Trinidad Express) Relatives of Carifta medallist Hakeem Alexander, 16, and his 15-year-old cousin, Tevin Alexander, who were both killed on Monday by police, are maintaining the two teenagers were innocently killed by the same police officers to whom they were attempting to surrender themselves on their knees.