(Trinidad Express) The Occupational Safety and Health Agency (OSHA) has issued a prohibition notice after conducting initial investigations into the partial collapse of Well Services Petroleum Ltd’s Rig 110 while rig worker Pete Phillip remained missing yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Instead of Christmas Day merriment, a Moruga family now has to plan the funeral of 36-year-old judiciary worker Stacy Gopaulsingh.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s legislature overturned a seven-year-old ban on metals mining yesterday, a move that President Nayib Bukele had pushed for to boost economic growth, but that environmental groups had opposed.
(Reuters) – At least 207 people were killed by members of the Wharf Jeremie gang in Haiti’s portside neighbourhood of Cite Soleil earlier this month, the United Nations said in a report yesterday, revising up a death toll it initially estimated at 187.
(Trinidad Express) A judicial support officer with the Judiciary of Trinidad and Tobago was hacked to death during a home invasion in Moruga.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek Saab said yesterday another 223 people arrested over election protests months ago will be released, taking the total number of prisoners freed to 956.
(Trinidad Express) With three more homicides recorded between Friday night and yesterday, the murder toll for 2024 currently stands at 599.
(Trinidad Express) The missing man who fell off a rig yesterday morning has been identified as Pete Phillip of La Romaine, San Fernando.
(Reuters) – A small plane carrying 10 people crashed into shops in the center of the tourist city of Gramado in southern Brazil yesterday, killing everyone on board, state government officials said.
(Reuters) – A bridge connecting two states in Brazil’s northern and northeastern regions collapsed yesterday as vehicles were crossing, killing at least one person and spilling sulfuric acid into the Tocantins River.
WASHINGTON, (reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump yesterday said he would nominate Mauricio Claver-Carone, who was fired from a previous position for allegedly having an affair with a subordinate, to serve as his special envoy to Latin America.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino reaffirmed the country’s sovereignty over the Panama canal today after U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) After he was released from prison a few years ago, former felony murder convict Wendell Simmons, 43, vowed never to return.
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) on Friday announced approval of a US$34.8 million loan to the Geothermal Power Company of Dominica (GPC) to fund the construction of a 10-megawatt (MW) geothermal power plant.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Trade and Industry, Paula Gopee-Scoon, is hoping that Angostura’s resumption of exports to China will continue to boost foreign exchange returns to the country.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The world knows him as Roy Augier, but he was born Fitzroy Richard Augier on December 17, 1924, in St Lucia.
(Reuters) – A packed bus collided with a truck and burst into flames early yesterday in Brazil, killing at least 22 people, the fire department said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Central businessman was shot in the head and died while behind the wheel of his truck, moments after he arrived at a construction site on Thursday with money to pay workers.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Cubans marched in front of the U.S.
SAN JOSE/SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador violated a woman’s rights after denying her an abortion in 2013 despite doctors’ calls to terminate her high-risk pregnancy, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) said yesterday.
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