Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A 75-year-old man who hired a hitman to kill his unfaithful wife so that he could run off with his mistress in the United States was freed yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) The Massy Holdings board of directors yesterday said it is “appalled” at the behaviour of its general counsel and executive vice-president of Business Integrity, Angelique Parisot-Potter, during the company’s annual general meeting, and as such has initiated a “disciplinary process” to review her conduct and determine how it should be handled “responsibly yet decisively”.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Massy Holdings executive vice president used the group’s 100th annual meeting yesterday to raise issues about the company’s spending of scarce foreign exchange on an executive management programme in Fort Myers, Florida that involves “bizarre rituals” and “highly dubious activities.”

SANTIAGO/VALPARAISO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chileans on Sunday rejected a new conservative constitution to replace its current text that dates back to the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and joint venture partner Repsol REP.MC

(Trinidad Guardian) Mayhem and chaos erupted in the carpark of the Courts Megastore in San Juan as gunshots rang out sending Christmas shoppers and staff inside the store to scamper for cover.

(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica’s former prime minister and Caribbean elder statesman PJ Patterson has commended last Thursday’s summit between Guyana and Venezuela in Argyle, St Vincent, and described the outcome as “a welcome sign of relief” for the hemisphere.

(Trinidad Guardian) The National Chutney Foundation of T&T (NCFTT) believes that a National Award should be given to legendary local Indian singer Budram Holass, who was laid to rest yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Mayhem and chaos erupted in the carpark of the Courts Megastore in San Juan as gunshots rang out sending Christmas shoppers and staff inside the store to scamper for cover.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – At least 13 people have been killed in Argentina, a local city mayor said yesterday, following a severe electrical storm that struck along the South American country’s Atlantic coast.

CARACAS/BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado said yesterday she will do “whatever it takes”, after appealing a ban which bars her from holding public office and could prevent her from running in 2024.

(Trinidad Guardian) Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne says the Argyle Agreement signed in St Vincent and the Grenadines between Guyana and Venezuela on Thursday, was a moment for the Caribbean Community to shine.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Indigenous protesters yesterday tried to prevent a public hearing on the construction of a railway that is planned to run through their lands to carry grains to a northern port in the Amazon.

(Trinidad Guardian)  A man who eluded serving a prison sentence in the US for over 20 years while hiding here in T&T, was extradited to the United States on Wednesday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Congress yesterday overturned a presidential veto that had struck down the core of a bill to limit Indigenous land claims, setting up a likely clash at the Supreme Court.

(Reuters) – Venezuela opposition presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado will not appeal her ban on holding public office because she has never been officially notified of it, she said yesterday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is temporarily shuttering an emergency clinic in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, the medical charity said on Thursday, after armed men stopped an ambulance, forcibly removed a severely wounded patient, beat him and then shot him dead.

(Trinidad Express) A suspect has been held by police officers in relation to the murders of Guyana-born Hollice Thomas and her son, eight-year-old Noel Thomas.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A man accused of bribing top Venezuelan political and military leaders was convicted yesterday of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine to the United states.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina will weaken its peso over 50% to 800 per dollar, cut energy subsidies, and cancel tenders of public works, new Economy Minister Luis Caputo said yesterday, economic shock therapy aimed at fixing the country’s worst crisis in decades.