Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll shot up to 17 yesterday with four more murders.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two days after the husband of a kidnapped woman of Madras Settlement escaped their kidnappers, the 54-year-old woman was found wandering along Cumaca Road, Valencia yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations continue into the murder of a man who was shot dead on Monday night along Broadway in Port-of-Spain when he stopped to purchase a meal.

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega was sworn into office for his fourth consecutive term yesterday, hours after the United States and European Union imposed sanctions on several figures in his government following elections Washington has called a “sham”.

(Trinidad Guardian) A shootout between police and bandits on the Sir Solomon Hochoy Highway near the Couva hospital has resulted in the death of one man while another escaped.

BARINAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan opposition candidate yesterday won an election for governor of Barinas state, the birth place of the late former leader Hugo Chavez, bringing an end to 22 years of Socialist party rule there.

(Trinidad Guardian) Well-known pharmacist David Samuel Rahaman has been murdered. Rahaman was shot dead in St James on Saturday night and investigators believe that a bar owner may hold the key to cracking the investigations.

(Trinidad Guardian) A man who was part of a couple kidnapped from their farm in Piarco and for whom a $2 million ransom was made, has escaped his kidnappers.

(Trinidad Express) Energy Minister and Port of Spain North/St Ann’s West MP Stuart Young says fireworks should not be sold to members of the public, and are a waste of foreign exchange.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – At least six people died and nine were seriously injured when a wall of rock collapsed on top of motor boats below a waterfall in southeastern Brazil yesterday, the local fire department said.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian Victor Escobar became the first person in the Andean country with a non-terminal illness to die by legally regulated euthanasia late on Friday, his lawyer Luis Giraldo confirmed.

 (Reuters) – Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has paused some of its cruise operations amid rising numbers of COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant.

 (Trinidad Express) Homicide detectives have charged a third man in connection with a 2020 quadruple homicide.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago has crossed 3,000 COVID-19 fatalities since the start of the pandemic with over 1,000 deaths reported in the last 45 days.

(Trinidad Express) A three-year feud between neighbours in La Romaine is said to have led to the killing of a man and the burning-down of a house on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Another police officer has succumbed to COVID-19.   In a statement, the TTPS said PC Saied Ali passed away on Wednesday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general opened a preliminary investigation against leftist president Pedro Castillo on Monday on allegations of collusion and influence peddling in cases related to government public works contracts.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Constable Shelford Kinsale and Police Constable Anthony Mohammed both tested positive for COVID-19 and subsequently passed away.

(Trinidad Express) Two homes in Maraval which are occupied by businessman Adrian Scoon were searched yesterday by officers of the Western Division.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-seven year old Ceyon Nicholas of Simon Road, Carapo, has been charged with the murders of Richie Richard Ragoo and Emmanuel Nyron Phillip and the attempted murder of another man.