Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Murdered businessman Anthony Chen was identified by police as the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Chinese businesswoman Xue Hua Shan.

(Barbados Nation) Shanique Myrie is free to return to Barbados and point a finger at who she alleges assaulted her at the Grantley Adams International Airport last month.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dirty money can be laundered in T&T through real estate, jewelry stores,  money transfers, on-line lottery games, plus other business lines, Attorney General Anand Ramlogan said yesterday. 

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A delegation of Libyan  officials is in Venezuela to discuss possible peaceful  solutions to the war in the North African country, Venezuela’s  President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Two cousins were shot dead while asleep at their Arima home early Monday morning.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Contractor General Greg Christie has made yet another call for a more aggressive approach in the fight against corruption.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Carlton ‘Spragga Benz’ Grant is claiming to be a victim of a conspiracy to smear his reputation.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s dispute with Barbados over the alleged ill-treatment of 20-year-old Shanique Myrie could be headed to the Trinidad and Tobago-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she believes the board of Caribbean Airlines Ltd should continue to work together.

(Trinidad Express) A restaurant owner was gunned down in front his Ellerslie Plaza, Maraval, business on Sunday, in what the police are describing as a hit.

SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Beware, Naga Viper. Your  reign as the world’s hottest chili pepper may be coming to a  close.

(Trinidad Express) Australian oil and gas producer Range Resources Ltd is to take full control of three production licences in active onshore oilfields in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) Fraud Squad officers, who were called in to probe a fraud incident at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs) last year, were instructed to pull the plug on their probe even before it could have begun.

(Barbados Nation) Low-cost carrier REDjet is yet to receive official clearance from the Trinidad and Tobago government, but its presence in the market has already triggered a price war and concerns that its model is unsustainable.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed in southern Brazil by landslides and other accidents caused by heavy rains, emergency workers said yesterday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – President Raul Castro’s admission at a Communist Party congress that Cuba lacks successors for its aging leaders underlined the old guard’s inability to give up power and its struggle to preserve the Revolution.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – The United States violated global trade law by shutting down Internet gambling sites based in Antigua and elsewhere and prosecuting their owners, according to Antigua and Barbuda officials considering action in the World Trade Organization.

(Trinidad Guardian) REDJet’s plans to fly from T&T on May 8 are in trouble.

CARACAS (Reuters) – An accused drug lord sitting in a high-security jail outside Bogota has become an unlikely symbol of friendship for Colombia and Venezuela whose rivalry for years mirrored Latin America’s deep ideological fissures.

A Jamaican couple who rolled in millions of pounds sterling while still accepting welfare benefits were on Tuesday convicted of money laundering in a London court.