Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A woman died yesterday morning, after being stabbed with a compass.

(Trinidad Express) Police suspect that Monday evening’s murder of a funeral home employee in Laventille is a reprisal for last week’s killing of another man at the same place.

(Trinidad Express) Police suspect that Monday evening’s murder of a funeral home employee in Laventille is a reprisal for last week’s killing of another man at the same place.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo has temporarily suspended his participation in the government transition, he said in a news conference yesterday, as actions by authorities fueled doubts around the transfer of power.

(Trinidad Guardian) Commissioner of Police, Erla Harewood-Christo-pher, has expressed deep sadness following reports that two police officers were involved in a deadly shooting in Chaguanas on Monday, in what appears to be a murder-suicide incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) A woman was killed and her husband is in a critical condition following a shooting incident in Penal earlier this morning.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The U.S.-Mexico border is the world’s deadliest land migration route, according to U.N.

SANTO DOMINGO/PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic will seal its border with Haiti in its northern Dajabon province if a conflict over access to water from a shared river is not resolved in the coming days, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will invest more than 100 trillion pesos ($24.9 billion) in rail, port, river and road infrastructure projects during the current presidential administration in a bid to boost economic development in various communities, the transport minister said on Monday.

(Reuters) – The prime ministers of two small island nations that face ongoing impacts from rising sea levels appeared at legal hearings at an international court in Germany on Monday, and are seeking an advisory opinion on the obligations of countries to combat climate change.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican former Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said yesterday he had presented a formal complaint against the ruling party’s primary process to a pick a candidate for the 2024 presidential election and pledged to form his own political movement.

(Reuters) – The United States has struck a deal with Peru that will help the Latin American country restore and protect some of its parts of the Amazon rainforest in return for a $20 million cut in its debt.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile today  marks 50 years since a violent coup by Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende ushered in two decades of military rule, saw thousands killed and seeded the country’s market-led economic model.

(Trinidad Express) A Laventille man who police believe was not the intended target of gunmen was shot dead near his Pashley Street home yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Express) With their hands bound with tie-straps and shivering with fear, a mother and daughter who were kidnapped from their Maraval home ran into the arms of Morvant residents on Friday night, pleading for help.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A St James man who the police say admitted to murdering two homeless persons in parish capital Montego Bay this year has been slapped with two more murder charges.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gillian French said she didn’t want her son, Kevin Barker, to do work for the Housing Development Corporation (HDC).

(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds has admitted that Trinidad and Tobago has “limited capacity” to protect its borders from illegal drugs and guns.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro proposed yesterday an alliance between Latin American countries to bring a unified voice to the fight against drug trafficking, by recognizing drug consumption as a public health problem instead of confronting it with what he called a “failed” militarized approach.

(Jamaica Observer) Nationwide News Network (NNN) CEO Cliff Hughes remained fearless on Friday, declaring that he and his staff will not be unnerved by a mid-afternoon gun attack on the station that has been widely condemned as an assault on press freedom.