Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Government’s newest proposals for pension reform are fair and reasonable, declared Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Renowned author and historian, Michael Anthony, a man Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has called “one of our best timekeepers” died at home at the age of 91 on Wednesday night.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Retired Guatemalan colonel Juan Ovalle Salazar was sentenced to 20 years in prison yesterday for his role in the massacre of 25 Indigenous people, mostly children, some 40 years ago during one of the most brutal periods of the country’s conflict.

  (Trinidad Guardian) The negotiations between Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and the Trinidad and Tobago Pilots’ Association (TTALPA) have taken a different turn as the Government is now set to intervene in the process.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s National Assembly, which is dominated by the ruling socialist party, yesterday named loyalist Elvis Amoroso as head of the National Electoral Council (CNE).

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – The Panama Canal expects to maintain restrictions on daily vessel transit and maximum draft for at least 10 more months amid a prolonged drought that has lowered the water level, an official from the waterway said yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights asked Guatemala to provide more protections for President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and Vice President-elect Karin Herrera, it said yesterday, citing “serious and urgent” risks to their wellbeing.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government will honor the result of a referendum to block oil operations in the Amazon, which will see machinery removed within a year, the government said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) There is no evidence to substan­tiate claims made by Guyana Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo that Trinidad and Tobago has a shortage of foreign exchange currency.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) and the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) are at loggerheads as negotiations over pay and benefits have come to an apparent standstill.

(Reuters) – The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday approved the disbursement of $7.5 billion for Argentina after completing the fifth and sixth reviews of their $44 billion programme, the IMF said.

(Reuters) – Brazilian space research center INPE said on Wednesday that carbon emissions in the Amazon forest soared in 2019 and 2020 compared to the previous decade due to poor enforcement of environmental protection policies.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian Senate’s Agriculture Committee yesterday voted 13-3 to approve legislation that would rule out recognition of Indigenous lands if they were not lived on by 1988, a bill that is backed by Brazil’s powerful farm lobby.

Buffeted by a pilot sickout this week that stranded hundreds of passengers, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) today said that it expects regular operations to fully recover by tomorrow.

(Trinidad Guardian) While there is still no confirmation on whether Sunday’s mass absence of Caribbean Airlines pilots was, in fact, industrial action, some workers are now pointing fingers at management over another issue that may have possibly led to the situation—pilot staffing.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Bernardo Arevalo, who won Sunday’s Guatemalan presidential runoff by a landslide, said he wants to work with the U.S.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house approved yesterday the main text of the new fiscal framework proposed by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, deemed crucial in averting the escalation of public debt.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Argentine Economy Minister Sergio Massa said yesterday that he expects the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board to approve the latest reviews of its huge loan programme today, unlocking $7.5 billion the embattled country desperately needs.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A backlog of vessels waiting to pass the Panama Canal due to drought-related restrictions has eased in recent days after the waterway’s authority authorized more non-booked ships to pass and as others are choosing alternate routes to avoid the delays.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Federal Police will investigate a suspected plan by defence ministry officials to draw up a report during the 2022 election campaign to support then President Jair Bolsonaro’s baseless allegations that electronic voting machines were vulnerable to fraud, a police source said on Tuesday.