(Trinidad Guardian) The mother of teenager Jayden Lalchan who ended his life on October 3 following an alleged bullying incident at school, is not happy with how school officials handled their complaints.
QUITO, (Reuters) – A judge in Ecuador yesterday ordered 30 people to stand trial in a wide-ranging organized crime and drug trafficking case involving the Andean country’s judicial system.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The mayor of the capital of Mexico’s violence-plagued state of Guerrero was killed yesterday less than a week after he took office, the state’s governor confirmed.
– An explainer on the prime minister’s legal challenge over financial probe (Jamaican Gleaner) The Integrity Commission has enlisted King’s Counsel and former Solicitor General Michael Hylton to lead its defence in the judicial review case filed by Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
(Trinidad Express) Misleading and mischievous.. This was the response yesterday from Patriotic Energy Services Company Ltd, owned by the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union (OWTU) to Energy Minister Stuart Young’s statement that the company provided a fake and fraudulent document during its bid for the former Petrotrin refinery at Pointe-a-Pierre.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is challenging the Opposition Leader to name the so-called paedophiles that she claims are in the “high ranks” of the People’s National Movement (PNM).
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilians voted on Sunday for mayors and city councilors in more than 5,500 municipal elections, with polls showing conservative candidates running strong in several major cities, setting the country’s political landscape ahead of a 2026 presidential race.
(Trinidad Guardian) Likening themselves as a phoenix, supposedly rising out of the ashes of the Banking, Insurance and General Workers Union (BIGWU), the Republic Workers Union (RWU) officially launched yesterday.
SAINT-MARC, Haiti, (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille embarked on a trip to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya yesterday to seek security assistance in the aftermath of one of deadliest gang attacks in the Caribbean nation in recent years.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Court of Appeal has ruled that there is no general principle that a 10-year-old child cannot be found liable for negligence.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has assured vendors affected by an early-morning fire on Friday at the Lucea Market in Hanover that efforts will be made to restore the facility swiftly.
(Trinidad Express) General Manager of Hyatt Regency Trinidad, Michael Hooper, says that a Facebook post regarding cashless payment options at the hotel was prematurely distributed and contained inaccurate information.
ORURO, Bolivia, (Reuters) – Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia’s high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country’s Lake Uru Uru, home to flamingos and an important stopover for migratory birds.
(Reuters) – A gruesome hours-long gang attack in Haiti a couple of days ago left dozens dead, torching homes and cars, while forcing thousands more to run for their lives, in the latest blow to a country that has suffered extreme violence for years.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a shocking revelation in Parliament yesterday, Energy Minister Stuart Young claimed the Oilfields Workers’ Trade Union’s (OWTU) Patriotic Energies Company Limited failed to make the next round of bidding on the mothballed Petrotrin refinery because it lied about its financial standing by submitting a fake document to the evaluation committee tasked with receiving proposals.
(Trinidad Express) A business arrangement that did not go as planned came to an end with Trinbagonian cricketers Sunil Narine and Terrance Hinds having to pay more than $60,000 to their former landlord for breach of contract.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Gang members brandishing automatic rifles stormed through a town in Haiti’s main breadbasket region, killing at least 70 and forcing over 6,000 to flee, causing widespread shock even in a country grown accustomed to outbreaks of violence.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Venezuelan former presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said yesterday that he intended to travel back to his country on Jan.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court said yesterday that lawyers representing social media platform X did not pay pending fines to the proper bank, postponing its decision on whether to allow the tech firm to resume services in Brazil.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – The river port in the Amazon rainforest’s largest city of Manaus yesterday hit its lowest level since 1902, as a drought drains waterways and snarls transport of grain exports and essential supplies that are the region’s lifeline.
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