Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) KINGSTON, Jamaica:  Opposition Senator Ruel Reid has renewed calls for Jamaica to pursue a mandatory policy restricting the number of children a man or woman can have.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Former president, Jules Wijdenbosch, says he has no involvement in the bribery scandal rocking Dutch contractor Ballast Nedam (BN).

(Trinidad Express) Dr Keith Rowley’s dark skin was cited as the only ground of “objection” to his leading Trinidad and Tobago as prime minister, former senator Fitzgerald Hinds said on Wednesday night.

MIAMI/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – U.S. relations with Cuba are at their best in almost two decades, but President Barack Obama seems unwilling or unable to confront a well-organized anti-Cuba lobby and push for further progress.

(Jamaica Observer) SAVANNA-LA-MAR, Westmoreland – THE eight children who were left orphaned after their parents were killed in their presence during a brutal attack by gunmen at their Dalling Street, Savanna-La-Mar, home last week Wednesday night are now in desperate need of financial and other forms of support.

(Trinidad Express)  Energy giant BHP Billiton has taken a leap of faith in the potential of the country’s largely untested deep water acreages, committing up to investing US$1 billion to exploration.

(Trinidad Express) A COUVA mother was found murdered in her bed on Tuesday, with her hands and feet bound and throat slit.

(Trinidad Express) The bill for the December oil spills will cost state-owned oil company Petrotrin upwards of TT$50 million, vice president for exploration and production Jamaludin Khan said on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Express) Reigning Chutney Soca Monarch Raymond Ramnarine is not obligated to defend his title and the show will go on with or without him, according to Southex Promotions chief executive officer, George Singh.

(Trinidad Express) The bill for the December oil spills will cost state-owned oil company Petrotrin upwards of TT$50 million, vice president for exploration and production Jamaludin Khan said yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Caribbean Association of Banks (CAB) is warning against any attempt by the Jamaican Government to legislate fees, suggesting that market forces should continue to determine fair prices for services delivered by regional banks.

(Trinidad Express) A Couva woman who was a State witness in a court case was shot and killed on the street on Monday, weeks after she received death threats not to testify.

(Trinidad Express) Finance Minister Larry Howai on Monday said he was concerned about customer confidence in RBC Royal Bank after the bank’s implementation of restructuring strategies, including several layoffs.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A pre-feasibility study on the prospects for hydropower generation from five of Jamaica’s rivers has indicated the country could nearly double the existing hydropower capacity if investors tap four of those sources.

Trinidad Express) A Couva woman who was a State witness in a court case was shot and killed on the street yesterday, weeks after she received death threats not to testify.

(Trinidad Express) – A frightening situation has developed where the children of this country are becoming more obese than the children in the United States, says Health Minister Dr Fuad Khan.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Dilma Rousseff yesterday picked a co-founder of her leftist Workers’ Party to oversee the Cabinet as Brazil gears up for October general elections, in which she’s expected to run for a second term.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Lead singer of the iconic reggae band, Third World, William ‘Bunny Rugs’ Clarke is dead.

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos would win more support than any other candidate in the first round vote for president, but the share of the electorate who will not pick any candidate on the ballot remains the biggest block of voters.

(Trinidad Express) Two more men were murdered on Saturday night in Barataria and Diego Martin carrying the country’s murder toll for the year so far to 49.