Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A principal of a Tobago school is expected to appear before a Scarbo-rough Magistrate today facing 75 sex charges.

(Trinidad Express) The chief executive of a small company which recovers vehicles using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology was shot on Friday night and later died at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) Carelessness and negligence on the part of some Petrotrin employees are the reasons why the company lost more than 7,000 barrels of oil last year.

(Trinidad Express) The chief executive of a small company which recovers vehicles using Global Positioning System (GPS) technology was shot on Friday night and later died at the Port of Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) A principal of a Tobago school is expected to appear before a Scarborough Magistrate tomorrow facing 75 sex charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Clico, the insurance company that the Government saved from collapse four years ago, recorded a 2012 after-tax profit of close to $3.8 billion, which was more than five times greater than the $702 million it declared in 2011.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Health has spent some TT$34 million in the past three years bringing foreign nurses from Cuba, Phillipines, St Vincent and other countries, Health Minister Fuad Khan said yesterday.

(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.

(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — The government of Suriname will have to defend itself again before the Inter-America Court for Human Rights (IACHR).

(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.