Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old mother of one has become the 40th murder victim for the year.

(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has targeted several local businessmen of interest in their probe into the TT$644 million cocaine drug bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA in December.

(Barbados Nation) A Guyanese has been charged with a number of drug offences.

(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has targeted several local businessmen of interest in their probe into the TT$644 million cocaine drug bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA in December.

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Gary Griffith stated yesterday that the days of catching the petty criminals while allowing the ‘big fish’ free rein are over.

CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro is urging representatives of Venezuela’s television stations yesterday to change what he calls a culture of violence glamorized by the media.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff will try to convince the world’s business elite in Davos this week that her country is still a good investment despite three years of mediocre growth.

(Barbados Nation) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler last night warned professionals such as doctors and lawyers and self-employed people, including mechanics, they will soon be under greater Government scrutiny to ensure they pay their fair share of taxes.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Police High Command has come out swinging as it rushes to dismiss claims of the existence of a police death squad and the ordering of the execution of alleged criminals.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia,  (Reuters) – Authorities in the Caribbean island of St.

A fire did serious damage on Friday to a Treasury Department building on Nevis, ruining records and computer services that an official on the Caribbean island said were vital to government operations, the Associated Press reported.

(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is in this country investigating the $.6 billion cocaine bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, which originated from Trinidad and Tobago, the Sunday Express has learnt.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A judge with the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has said there is no mechanism to enforce the judgement following the recent ruling in the case involving the Jamaican national Shanique Myrie.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A Jamaica-born ex-pastor has been convicted in the United States of raping two teenage girls, one of whom attended his church.

(Barbados Nation) The importation of wigs and weaves into Barbados is a Bds$2 million business.

(Trinidad Express) Three co-workers were killed in a crash along the M2 Ring Road, Debe today.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals have featured prominently as both “overstayers and undocumented migrant workers” in this country, according to statistics from the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service’s Crime and Problem Analysis Branch (CAPA), a research report on invisible immigrants has stated.

(Trinidad Express) An estimated U.S $100 million worth in cocaine concealed in fruit juice cans originating in Trinidad and Tobago was seized by United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Officers in Virginia, United States in December.

(Trinidad Express) THE hosting of the 2014 Lotto Plus Chutney Soca Monarch competition is in jeopardy as Government has failed to deliver on its financial commitments.

(Jamaica Observer) Local conglomerate GraceKennedy is to build a state-of-the-art commercial centre in downtown Kingston which will accommodate offices, a gym and retail enterprises.