Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are unsure of a motive for the murder of businesswoman Carissa Ramrattan who was robbed after a gunman shot her at Toyota Trinidad’s compound in San Fernando yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The National Investment Fund (NIF) has sent a legal letter to One Caribbean Media Ltd (OCM), requesting the list of all of OCM’s shareholders and the number of them who voted for and against the two individuals nominated by the Government to join the media house’s board of directors.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank will start selling U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A YTEPP student was among two shot and killed this morning at Maturita Trace, Arima.

(Trinidad Express) Shareholders of One Caribbean Media (OCM) on Thursday rejected the two individuals nominated by the Government to join the organisation’s board of directors.

The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday expressed  sadness at the passing of Sir Neville V.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – More than 100 countries are expected to back a global alliance against hunger that Brazil has proposed to counter the increasing number of people going hungry in the world, a Brazilian minister said.

(Reuters) – The leaders of small Caribbean island nations yesterday said that financial damage wrought by Hurricane Beryl would run beyond their capacities and urged lenders to ease financing costs to address the worsening impacts of climate change.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday placed sanctions on Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang that began in a prison and has spread throughout Latin America.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba is tightening regulations on fledgling private businesses, reining in profits and beefing up oversight as the government wrestles with how best to manage fast-growing private enterprise in the communist-run country.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Abin spy agency was used to illegally monitor tax auditors who were investigating a son of former President Jair Bolsonaro in an attempt to disrupt the corruption probe, Supreme Court documents unsealed on Thursday showed.

(Trinidad Express) Graduation dreams were dashed for two 16-year-old boys of the Harmons School of SDA after they were allegedly dragged out of their school prom at Rovanel’s Resort on Monday night .

(Trinidad Guardian) As the Calypso King of the World celebrated his 89th birthday on Tuesday, there were calls for the National Cultural Recognition Policy to be implemented so that designated icons can receive their flowers while still alive.

(Trinidad Express) Shell T&T Ltd, a subsidiary of Shell plc, announced on Tuesday that it has taken final investment decision (FID) on the Manatee project, an undeveloped gas field in the East Coast Marine Area (ECMA).

(Trinidad Express) It’s now a horrific quadruple murder as the fourth man shot on Monday morning along with three others in Tobago died on Monday night at the Scarborough General Hospital.

(Trinidad Express) An outbreak of dengue in a community in Barrackpore has resulted in one death and left two hospitalised in critical condition.

(Reuters) – Leaders across the Caribbean were still tallying the financial toll wrought by the earliest Atlantic storm on record to intensify to the maximum Category 5 level, after it left a trail of destruction on Jamaica and islands of the eastern Caribbean.

(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government decreed yesterday the closure and seizure of assets of Radio Maria, the station formerly run by Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a prominent government critic now in exile at the Vatican.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Carolina Leal used to support socialist Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and, before that, his predecessor Hugo Chavez.

(Trinidad Express) An early morning home invasion in Carlsen Field, Central Trinidad, yesterday left a son dead and his father in critical condition.