Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The dreams of an aspiring cricketer was cut short on Sunday night when gunmen who came looking for his brother murdered him instead.

CARACAS (Reuters) – A Chilean woman was shot dead while clearing a barricade put up by anti-government protesters, the first foreign fatality during a month of civil unrest in Venezuela, authorities said yesterday.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan prosecutors accused a policeman yesterday of shooting dead a young female intelligence agent that he mistook for a kidnapper after her plainclothes team forced a suspected protester into their car.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on February 27 and March 3.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Detectives from the Transnational Crime and Narcotics Division (TCND) arrested four men and a woman for breaches under the Dangerous Drugs Act on February 27 and March 3.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Youth and Culture Lisa Hanna is not backing down from her position that cultural expert Sydney Bartley cannot continue as the permanent secretary (PS) in her ministry.

(Jamaica Observer) Chinese-owned Pan- Caribbean Sugar continued to incur losses in the second half of the year, following a bad start in 2013.

(Barbados Nation) Des-pite LIAT’s desperation for investor dollars, it wants no “buccaneers” coming to buy any part of its fleet.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago law enforcement officials yesterday handed over the nine members of the ultra-orthodox Hasidic Jewish Group Lev Tahor to Canadian law enforcement and immigration officials at the Piarco International Airport for their return to Canada.

(Trinidad Express) The doctor who performed a Caesarean section during which a baby boy’s head was sliced, penetrating his brain tissue, was yesterday suspended pending the report of an independent investigation.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Latin American foreign ministers will meet next week to discuss the unrest in Venezuela that has left at least 20 dead and convulsed the South American OPEC nation, diplomatic sources said yesterday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s leading opposition group, PAC, expected to win a four-year presidential term next month, will drop the country’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2021, an official said.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chilean and French scientists have discovered a network of underground caves on a remote island in Patagonia that could provide valuable clues as to how continents were formed.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Latin American presidents will meet next week to discuss the unrest in Venezuela that has left at least 20 dead and convulsed the South American OPEC nation, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa said late on Thursday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba accepted a proposal by the European Union to open negotiations on a new political accord, saying yesterday it was willing to discuss human rights as part of discussions that would end what it considers a one-sided relationship with Europe.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan soldier and a motorcyclist died in a confused melee sparked by the opposition’s barricading of a Caracas street, officials said yesterday, boosting the death toll from nearly a month of violence to 20.

(Barbados Nation) LIAT WILL LOOK at cutting some of its most unprofitable routes over the next three months as part of a programme to fix the cash-strapped airline.

(Trinidad Express) AN application for a habeas corpus writ to have nine members of a Canadian ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect released from detention in Trinidad and Tobago was yesterday dismissed by a High Court judge in Port of Spain.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Followers of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela yesterday for the anniversary of his death, an emotional but welcome distraction for his successor from violent protests raging for the last month.

(Trinidad Express) In the ultimate act of selflessness a 26-year-old Tabaquite man died on Monday, after rescuing two children from drowning in Mayaro.