Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A father and daughter were shot and killed at a house in Aranguez on Wednesday night.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s ability to identify the perpetrators of some of the island’s most heinous crimes will receive a boost shortly when the National DNA Database becomes operational.

(Barbados Nation) With one man dead and two others nursing injuries in separate shooting incidents Tuesday night, police are renewing their call for the public to come forward with information on the gun violence.

(Trinidad Express) A Customs and Excise guard who dropped a co-worker home was shot dead in Caroni on Tuesday night.

(Trinidad Express) Police are investigating the death of a three-year-old boy found in a private school bus yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jus­tice Pe­ter Ja­madar has been sworn in as a Caribbean Court of Jus­tice (CCJ) judge.

(Trinidad Express) Armed with a blow torch, a gang of “professional thieves” broke into the home of a Penal family and robbed them of thousands in cash and valuables early Tuesday.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica recorded a second consecutive year of negative population growth last year.

(Trinidad Express) Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal has been muzzled.

(Trinidad Guardian) The CEO of the Tourism Trinidad Ltd has been fired af­ter just six months on the job.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil will take action if concerns about an increase in deforestation are confirmed, the agriculture minister said yesterday as Brazil faces environmental pressure under the terms of the EU-Mercosur free trade deal.

(Jamaica Observer) A 29-year-old political activist is seeking to become the first openly transgender Member of Parliament (MP) to sit in the House of Repre-sentatives.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru has invited China, Russia, Cuba, the United States and dozens of other countries to Lima on Aug.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – At least 26 people died after a lobster-fishing boat capsized off the Atlantic coast of Honduras during poor weather conditions, an armed forces spokesman said yesterday, in one of the country’s worst-ever accidents at sea.

(Reuters) – Delta Air Lines flight attendants restrained a passenger on a flight from Puerto Rico to New York after he shouted “I am God!”

(Trinidad Express) Seeking to arouse the consciences of senators, National Security Minister Stuart Young yesterday spoke of the harrowing experiences of young Venezuelan women forced into prostitution by their captors, whom he described as “animals”.

(Trinidad Express) A late night rendezvous with a woman in a car parked roadside in Caroni, ended in the death of the driver.

(Trinidad Guardian) Many of the lo­cal women and chil­dren who trav­elled to Syr­ia to fight for the Is­lam­ic ter­ror group Isis were forced to do so, ac­cord­ing to lo­cal Imam Sher­az Ali.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he was committed to talks with the opposition to resolve a political crisis, hours after opposition leader Juan Guaido said there would “never” be a good time to negotiate with a “dictatorship.”

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s education minister Edgar Mora resigned yesterday following protests against policies including his support for gender-neutral bathrooms, in a sign the cultural issues that dominated last year’s presidential election remain divisive.