MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) yesterday backed Xochitl Galvez’s candidacy for the 2024 presidential election at the expense of its own contender, paving the way for the maverick senator to head an alliance of opposition parties.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A Connecticut oil and gas trader was charged on Tuesday for his alleged role in a bribery scheme to win business from Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras PETR4.SA
(Reuters) – The U.S. Embassy in Haiti yesterday urged citizens in the Caribbean country to leave “as soon as possible” citing security and infrastructure challenges, as escalating violence has left thousands displaced and sent homicides soaring.
(Trinidad Guardian) The average price of food and non-alcoholic beverages rose by 8.6 per cent between July 2022 and July 2023, according to the Retail Price Index (RPI) compiled by the Central Statistical Office (CSO).
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Denmark will donate 150 million Danish crowns ($21.9 million) to Brazil’s Amazon Fund to fight deforestation, Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and Global Climate Policy, Dan Jorgensen, announced yesterday with his Brazilian counterpart.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday congratulated Bernardo Arevalo on his election as the next president of Guatemala, but added the United States remained “concerned with continued actions by those who seek to undermine Guatemala’s democracy.”
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Police in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia killed two men suspected of involvement in the murder of nine people in the town of Mata de Sao Joao, while another suspect was arrested, the state security office said on Tuesday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s police chief, Frantz Elbe, said yesterday he would launch an operation to recover the bodies of followers of an evangelical minister who led a deadly protest against a heavily armed gang controlling a suburb of the capital.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s supreme electoral tribunal on Monday ratified the victory of centre-left candidate Bernardo Arevalo in the country’s presidential election even as a new bid to suspend his party sowed fresh confusion about the fraught process.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 29-year-old hospital attendant was killed in the parking lot of his workplace early yesterday morning.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains in Chile’s central south farming region last week may have caused at least $1 billion in losses, according to estimates by authorities and the industry.
GUANIMAR, Cuba, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Idalia lashed western Cuba and was expected to strengthen into a major hurricane today as it crawled toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, whereofficials ordered evacuations and urged residents to prepare in advance of an expected Wednesday morning landfall.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Tobago teenager was killed during a shooting at a bar on the island yesterday morning, while her friend was also hurt.
(Trinidad Guardian) For Caribbean Airlines (CAL), profitability has been as cyclical as the aviation business.
(Trinidad Express) Legendary Calypso Queen Denyse Plummer has died after a long battle with cancer.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed in Haiti yesterday, local rights group CARDH said, after a gang that controls a northern suburb of the capital Port-au-Prince opened fire with machine guns on a protest organized by a Christian church leader.
(Trinidad Guardian) InterCaribbean Airways, which services certain destinations in the eastern, western and southern Caribbean is financially stable and is here to stay.
(Trinidad Guardian) Ten men armed with guns and cutlasses who stormed into the New City Mall, Charlotte Street, Port-of-Spain, at around 10.45 am yesterday during an attempted robbery and were confronted by municipal police officers leading to a shoot-out.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports centre in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs.
(Jamaica Gleaner) NEW YORK: New York City Mayor Eric Adams posthumously awarded a Key to the City of New York to legendary performer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte, for his decades of entertainment in music, film, theatre, and television.
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