Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Fishermen impacted by an oil spill in the south-western peninsula last week have not yet returned to work, says president of the Fullerton Fishing Association, Paula Buckmire.

 (Barbados Nation) Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Kerrie Symmonds has warned that standards of tourism in Barbados must improve after Grantley Adams International Airport’s (GAIA) recent Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dubai and Agencias Universales S.A.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general raised the death toll from a wave of violence over the weekend in one the country’s most dangerous jails to 31 late yesterday, after the government earlier declared a 60-day state of emergency for the country’s prisons.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Panama Canal will extend restrictions on ships’ maximum depth, it said  yesterday, and it has limited average crossings at one of the world’s busiest trade passages to just 32 ships a day as a prolonged drought continues.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – NASA Administrator Bill Nelson visited Brazilian space research centre INPE yesterday and proposed extending satellite partnerships with the United States to help monitor and prevent destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian state of Parana, the country’s biggest poultry producer, said yesterday it has declared an animal health emergency due to the detection of avian flu cases in wild birds.

United National Congress (UNC) leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the party’s lawyers will support Tobago House of Assembly chief secretary Farley Augustine and Tobagonians in the courts and will also support them in Parliament and on platforms.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso yesterday declared a state of emergency and night curfews in three coastal provinces, amid a wave of violence over the weekend in the Andean country that left at least eight people dead.

(Trinidad Guardian) When BW268 touched at the Robert L Bradshaw International Airport just after 10 am yestyerday, it marked the first time Caribbean Airlines (CAL) was operating scheduled flights to St Kitts.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Senior U.S. Department of State official Brian Nichols said yesterday he had spoken with Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Bucaro to stress the need to hold a free and fair run-off in the Central American country’s presidential election next month.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former United National Congress (UNC) chairman Jack Warner has made his return speech to UNC supporters, telling them that he intends to dismantle his political party, the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), to bring his supporters back to the UNC.

QUITO, (Reuters) – The mayor of the Ecuadorian Pacific port city of Manta, Agustin Intriago, was shot dead yesterday, authorities said, in a brazen attack that stunned the political establishment.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Detective Constable Leslie Walker, who was convicted in June 2021 of raping a then 15-year-old schoolgirl, has lost his appeal against his conviction and sentence.

(Trinidad Express ) Former agriculture minister and government senator Clarence Rambharat is in Canada working remotely as special adviser to Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Express) Police are searching for three men who invaded the home of a High Court judge on Friday and stole thousands of dollars’ worth of items.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should in the coming days finalize the basis for a staff level agreement with Argentina over a review of the country’s $44 billion loan with the IMF, the Washington-based fund said on Sunday.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s economic growth is less than 2% this year and remains 8 percentage points below pre-pandemic levels, while production in sectors such as agriculture, mining and manufacturing was further behind, Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said yesterday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – A Peruvian high court has ordered same-sex unions to be legally registered in public records, marking a victory for the LGBTQ community in a country that has been reluctant to recognize gay couples.

(Trinidad Guardian) The embattled founder of the Independent Liberal Party (ILP), Jack Warner, is officially back on the political scene with the United National Congress (UNC) less than a month before Local Government Elections on August 14.

GUATEMALA CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Guatemalan presidential candidate Bernardo Arevalo called a Friday police raid on his party headquarters a “corrupt” show of political persecution just a month before a high-stakes run-off election, as the U.S.