Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Nine high powered guns are among 12 illegals firearms seized by the police within the last 24 hours.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal police proposed criminal charges against Vale SA, auditor TÜV SÜD and 13 of their employees, alleging fraud in relation to a deadly dam collapse in January, according to a document seen by Reuters yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Cricket legend Deryck Lance Murray has been appointed to the post of as High Commissioner for the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to Jamaica.

(Trinidad Guardian) Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Minister and Min­is­ter in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Stu­art Young, yes­ter­day met with Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nico­las Maduro in Cara­cas for dis­cus­sions on mat­ters of en­er­gy and na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s rival political factions will take their power struggle to New York next week, where representatives of President Nicolas Maduro and opposition chief Juan Guaido will each try to convince a gathering of world leaders at the United Nations that their boss is the country’s legitimate head of state.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – A court handed down a two-year prison sentence for bribery to former Salvadoran President Elias Antonio Saca, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration yesterday ordered the expulsion from the United States of two members of Cuba’s delegation to the United Nations and restricted travel of the remaining mission members to Manhattan, drawing strong condemnation from Havana.

(Trinidad Express) Djimon Sanderson, the grandson of former Government Minister and former Fyzabad Member of Parliament Arthur Sanderson, was gunned down on Wednesday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three months af­ter the reg­is­tra­tion process end­ed thou­sands of Venezue­lans are yet to re­ceive their reg­is­tra­tion cards.

(Barbados Nation) Tropical Storm Jerry gained strength to the east of the Leeward Islands, with the maximum sustained winds now near 60 mph (95 km/h) with higher gusts.

(Jamaica Observer) Approximately 200 people marched to Gordon House in downtown Kingston yesterday, to demonstrate against prospective mining in adjoining sections of the Cockpit Country.

(Jamaica Observer) The arrest of a Jamaican man by immigration officers in Connecticut as he left a courthouse sparked a protest by concerned residents about the action of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

(Trinidad Guardian) A so­cial me­dia stand­off has emerged be­tween Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley and British High Com­mis­sion­er Tim Stew over the Prime Min­is­ter’s de­ci­sion to write the British gov­ern­ment on the con­tents of a doc­u­men­tary, which Dr Row­ley con­tends has mis­rep­re­sent­ed Trinidad and To­ba­go.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Michelle Bachelet, Chile’s ex-president and now the UN human rights chief, has denied allegations by a Brazilian businessman under investigation in Brazil’s massive Car Wash scandal that he paid $141,000 to cover debts incurred by her 2013 presidential campaign.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A total of 948 persons have been murdered across Jamaica since the start of the year, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has told the Parliament.

(Trinidad Express) The father of a teenage boy who was shot and killed by a police officer during a party in 2014 has been awarded more than $1 million in damages by the High Court.

(Trinidad Guardian) Va­p­ing is a new trend that is now re­ceiv­ing crit­i­cal at­ten­tion and analy­sis from leg­is­la­tors, not on­ly in coun­tries like the Unit­ed States but here at home as well.

(Trinidad Guardian) While Trinidad and To­ba­go re­cent­ly made head­way in the US on Venezuela, Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley is most up­set with the British Broad­cast­ing Cor­po­ra­tion’s (BBC’s) re­cent doc­u­men­tary on T&T’s Venezue­lan amnesty reg­is­tra­tion ex­er­cise – and he’s writ­ing to the British Gov­ern­ment on it.

(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Jus­tice Ivor Archie has opened the new law term with a scold­ing for the me­dia for what he con­tends is the ab­di­ca­tion of its du­ty to act re­spon­si­bly.

(Trindiad Guardian) In her fea­ture ad­dress cen­tred around ju­di­cial re­form dur­ing the church ser­vice for the cer­e­mo­ni­al open­ing of the 2019-2020 Law Term, Dean of the Law Fac­ul­ty at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI) Pro­fes­sor Rose-Marie Belle An­toine said that, in her opin­ion, lawyer fees in the coun­try “are too high”.