Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar handed over a laptop and desktop computer to police investigators yesterday but remained mum on what transpired du­ring the two-and-a-half-hour-long meeting.

(Trinidad Express) An American businessman and his company have sued Justice Minister Christlyn Moore for alleged failure of her fiduciary duties.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s bid to defuse a sudden outburst of national discontent by proposing a referendum on political reforms ran into stiff opposition yesterday from politicians and lawyers who questioned its legality.

(Barbados Nation) Dr Alfred Sparman’s problems may be mounting. Now the Caribbean Cardiac Society (CCS) is saying he could be struck off its membership if he is not registered here as a cardiologist.

BEIJING, (Reuters) – The mysterious Chinese businessman behind a $40 billion plan to build a canal through Nicaragua pledged transparency today — but refused to reveal where he attended college.

(Trinidad Guardian) Canadian High Commissioner to T&T Gérard Latulippe says a contract has not yet been awarded to SNC-Lavalin to build the Penal hospital because a due diligence review of the company is still ongoing. Latulippe,

(Jamaica Gleaner) The sounds of violence pierced the morning sky in the volatile area around Pechon Street in the heart of the commercial district of downtown Kingston yesterday, leaving three dead, after five persons were shot.

(Trinidad Express) Escaped murderer David John Pierre, 33, remained at large last night after escaping from Carrera Island Prison on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) – The family home of Trinidad-born novelist VS Naipaul, known as the model for the eponymous house in Naipaul’s 1963 novel A House for Mr Biswas, will be opened to the public as a literary museum in October.

(Trinidad Express) – Two teenage brothers of Aranguez were stabbed to death on Sunday as they attempted to defend a friend from cell phone thieves.

(Trinidad Express) Two teenage brothers of Aranguez were stabbed to death yesterday as they attempted to defend a friend from cell phone thieves.

(Trinidad Express) The illegal diesel trade could be almost as big as the drug trade in Trinidad, Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A homeless man was found stabbed to death early Saturday morning under a bus shed in Tacarigua.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The government-owned Assets Recovery Agency (ARC) is yet to find any of the millions of dollars in assets which former Tivoli Gardens gangster Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke was supposed to have amassed over the years.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s air traffic controllers are on strike. The controllers who went on strike at both the Sangster and Norman Manley International airports yesterday, did not turn up for work again this morning, highly-placed sources have told The Gleaner.

(Barbados Nation) An American professional organization has slammed a local doctor for purporting to be affiliated with it, and has told him to stop making the claim.

(Trinidad Express) A diesel smuggling racket in which the subsidised fuel was exchanged for guns and drugs was uncovered yesterday when a joint team of law enforcement officials swooped down on a truck at a seafront compound in Pioneer Drive, Sea Lots, Port of Spain.

(Barbados Nation) BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, – The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are to conduct a comprehensive study of Barbados’ financial services sector.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday he regretted the meeting with Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon at his home.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Bouterse wanted to dismiss a number of Ministers some time ago, but he kept them on to complete negotiations with multinationals Iamgold and Newmont.