HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has uncovered a human trafficking ring that has coerced its citizens to fight for Russia in the war in Ukraine, its foreign ministry said yesterday, adding that Cuban authorities were working to “neutralize and dismantle” the network.
BOGOTA/MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – For decades, drug traffickers carried their cash in suitcases to dodge banking controls, and the police.
(Trinidad Guardian) Terror reigned at Massy Stores in St Ann’s on Sunday, as five bandits, one armed with a gun, stormed the supermarket beating one of five workers before leaving with an undisclosed sum of US and T&T currency.
(Trinidad Express) Local entertainer Rennie Ramnarine passed away this morning, after a battle with kidney failure.
(Trinidad Guardian) Terror reigned at Massy Stores in St Ann’s yesterday, as five bandits, one armed with a gun, stormed the supermarket beating one of five workers before leaving with an undisclosed sum of US and T&T currency.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Thousands of supporters celebrated the nomination of Mexican Senator Xochitl Galvez yesterday as the 2024 presidential candidate of an opposition alliance set to take on the country’s ruling party.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie has welcomed the arrest of a man in relation to the murder of five homeless people between June and August this year.
(Barbados Nation) Having staged a third march yesterday in protest of the Government’s attempt to increase the national retirement age, organisers say they are prepared to ramp up action if Government does not adjust its stance.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – In a break with the past, Bolivia’s government has acknowledged that the country is becoming a production hub for cocaine rather than a mere transport hub and grower of raw coca leaves.
(Trinidad Express) A family of five who came to Trinidad on vacation last month, but ended up stranded here for several days due to the Caribbean Airlines/pilots impasse, has been offered a TT$20,000 reimbursement by the airline.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hundreds of Haitians set up camp around the main square of Port-au-Prince yesterday, as overnight attacks by armed gangs pushed already displaced people to seek shelter wherever they could.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Dos Bocas refinery is set to produce an average of 290,000 barrels of gasoline per day (bpd) by the end of the year, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The average wait time for non-booked vessels at the Panama Canal jumped by between 44% and 59% last month as a prolonged drought led to restrictions on daily transits and ship drafts.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his wife Michelle chose to remain silent when they appeared before Federal Police yesterday to testify in an investigation into jewelry gifts that they received from Arab heads of state and never declared.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank agreed yesterday to deepen their cooperation on Western Hemisphere development efforts, including preserving the Amazon rainforest, Caribbean disaster resilience and digital access across Latin America.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Two car explosions targeted at Ecuadorean prisons agency SNAI may have been set off in response to government security operations at prisons this week, President Guillermo Lasso and a top security official said yesterday.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China and Nicaragua signed a free trade agreement (FTA) yesterday, China’s commerce ministry said, in confirmation of deepening economic ties since the Central American country switched its allegiance to Beijing from Taiwan in 2021.
WASHINGTON/PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United States will continue deporting Haitian migrants back to their country, a spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security said yesterday, amid worsening gang warfare that prompted it a day earlier to urge its own citizens to evacuate.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank agreed today to deepen their cooperation on Western Hemisphere development efforts, including preserving the Amazon rainforest, Caribbean disaster resilience and digital access across Latin America.
(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old woman appeared before a Chaguanas magistrate, charged with the murder of Ghandi Ramlochan of Queens, New York.
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