BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine voters punished the country’s two main political forces in a primary election yesterday, pushing a rock-singing libertarian outsider candidate into first place in a huge shake-up in the race towards presidential elections in October.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Agents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) were meeting with Ecuadorean police and prosecutors yesterday as part of a joint effort to uncover who was behind last week’s assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian prosecutors announced sexual abuse charges on Saturday against the father of two of the four Indigenous children who survived a May plane crash in the South American country’s Amazon region.
(Trinidad Express) “Where yuh son?” These were the words 48-year-old Pamela Joseph heard before she was fatally shot yesterday morning at her home in Ninth Avenue, Barataria.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings yesterday reported group profit after tax from continuing operations of $514.41 million for the nine-month period ended June 30, 2023, which was a 20 per cent increase over $427.78 million the publicly listed T&T company reported for the same period in 2022.
(Trinidad Express) The first methamphetamine laboratory in Trinidad and Tobago was located and dismantled by officers of the Special Branch following an extensive intelligence-led operation in partnership with US law enforcement agencies, police say.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Supporters of assassinated Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio gathered at a public memorial event in Quito yesterday, while his family held a mass at the cemetery where he will be buried.
(Trinidad Express) Four months ago, Darren Nandlal wed his best friend, promising to love and protect her for the rest of their lives.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s presidential election race has an unpredictable X factor: Javier Milei, a fiery and wild-haired libertarian who wears leather jackets, belts out rock songs to his supporters, and wants to purge politics of what he calls “thieves.”
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said today that a new “growth acceleration program” to be launched by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva later in the day will include a total 1.7 trillion reais ($347.47 billion) in investments in all states.
(Trinidad Guardian) An historic moment for the Caribbean as a mother and daughter from Antigua and Barbuda are the first space tourists from the region to journey to space and back to earth on the same day.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Cuba has begun using its own tankers to ramp up crude imports from Mexico, which in the second quarter surpassed Russia as a key oil provider to the fuel-thirsty island, according to vessel monitoring data.
(Trinidad Express) Thousands of Telecommunications Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTT) customers were unable to place calls, access mobile data and Internet services for hours yesterday after the provider suffered a widespread network outage.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The former head of Brazil’s Federal Highway Police was arrested yesterday in an investigation of interference in the 2022 presidential election runoff, a Supreme Court decision showed.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba in July recorded its hottest month since 1951, officials said, with the soaring temperatures on land and sea straining the country’s decrepit electric grid and pressuring fragile ocean resources.
(Trinidad Guardian) The energy sector was given a dose of good news over the weekend after the discovery of virgin oil in the Jacobin-1 well.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Public information in Mexico is becoming more difficult to access under President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a civil rights group said yesterday as it showed that scores of government databases are no longer updated.
BELEM, Brazil, (Reuters) – A dozen rainforest countries formed a pact today at a summit in Brazil to demand developed countries pay to help poorer nations combat climate change and preserve biodiversity.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – South America’s Mercosur trade bloc and the European Union should shelve talks over a free trade agreement, with current environmental demands from the EU “unacceptable”, Paraguay’s President-elect Santiago Pena told Reuters.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The leader of a prominent Colombian criminal group who pleaded guilty to U.S.
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