Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) lost an estimated $15 million during the two-day flight disruption of its operations over the weekend, according to sources within the airline.

(Trinidad Guardian) Life is a circle and what you do to others today will definitely find its way back to you one day.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador yesterday publicly attacked a Reuters report published last week detailing how organized crime groups disguised drug profits as routine remittances to move money from the United States to Mexico.

(Trinidad Express) The family of a three-year-old non-verbal autistic child are complaining that their return trip home to Trinidad was tainted by several rude interactions on board a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) flight from Tobago last week.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Industrial Court has granted an emergency injunction barring members of the T&T Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) employed by Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) from continuing to engage in alleged protest action.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Two former lawmakers, leftist Luisa Gonzalez and business scion Daniel Noboa, will battle for Ecuador’s presidency in an October run-off, after coming top in a first round of voting over the weekend.

PALM SPRINGS, California, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Hilary made its historic arrival in California yesterday with forecasters warning of possibly catastrophic flooding after the storm pummeled Mexico’s Baja California peninsula with heavy rains.

(Trinidad Express) Energy products company Proman has temporarily ceased work activities at one of its plants at Pt Lisas, following a fire on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hooded gunman unleashed a barrage of bullets at a house in Golconda on Friday night, killing one man and injuring two children.

Caribbean Airlines is telling passengers affected by cancelations not to come to the airport as they will contact them, the Trinidad Guardian today reported.

(Jamaica Observer) A St James man accused of killing five people in separate incidents will have to adjust to the confines of the lock-up as no bail application was made on his behalf when he appeared in the St James Parish Court on Wednesday.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department on Saturday sanctioned 100 Nicaraguan municipal officials accused of participating in human rights violations for their roles in the closure of a popular university and jailing of a prominent bishop.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Hurricane Hilary hurtled towards Mexico’s Baja California peninsula yesterday, a U.S.

(Trinidad Express) have arrived by the swarms in Siparia, thousands flying through Coora Road and Quarry Village over the past few days.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Category 4 Hurricane Hilary hurtled towards Mexico’s Baja California peninsula yesterday, a U.S.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal authorities yesterday arrested leaders of the capital’s military police in a raid carried out as part of an investigation into the Jan.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Brazil intends to restore trade and political ties with Cuba, a top foreign policy aide to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesteday after meeting with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel in Havana.

 (Reuters) – More than 350 people have been killed in lynchings by local vigilante and “self-defense” groups in Haiti since April, a United Nations spokesperson said today, as civilian defense movements attempt to battle escalating gang warfare.

(Trinidad Express) The Downtown Owners and Merchants Association (DOMA) led by Gregory Aboud says this country is in a state of near-panic.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Sangre Grande community was thrown into mourning yesterday, after a mother and her two sons died in an overnight fire.